It's decently done, so early 20th is feasible. Your reins and yoke may have been wood. Lemon juice may muck up any patina. I'd use a toothpick and...
Bit small for a breakfast set - two inch high cup?
Do you think the cream head is chalkware? It looks a bit shiny.
Hm. I think that is moulded glass on an applied coloured bisque back rather than a true cameo.
Candy probably. In the UK and Europe, booze, but when I got industry gifts in the US they were never alcoholic.
I'd think about antiquities: you can pick up Roman stuff cheaply. Or English Civil War stuff.
Colour looks wrong for silver, so I suspect an alloy of some kind. Pity I can't smell it. ;)
I have damaged pieces of 17th and 18th C Japnese export ware which I paid pennies for and love. On the wire hanger thing, there are some better...
They're fuchsia flowers. I can't for the life of me remember who that mark is.
They're relatively common here, and given how early, not that valuable. They are, despite that, delightful.
Indeed! ;)
Most welcome. They may do better than that as earrings, depends on whether you want to gamble. ;)
I did one of those online calculations and four grammes came out at about $126. That could be slightly optimistic. ;)
That sounds low. If they're 4 grammes of 18ct then you ought to be getting twice that!
Whole thing picture please and can you get that mark a bit clearer?
Sorry, but Millers' prices are utter twaddle. They vastly overrate the price things will fetch at auction and are invariably substantially out of...
The Del does a fabulous brunch and one of my all time favourite films is set there. Which is not with Marilyn, though.
I was in a geography frame of mind, too. ;)
I think someone mounted them. That backing is certainly "newer" - as in, 1960s or so.
That Stratton is about fifteen dollars retail here, so a good find. The other one a bit more, as it's unusual. Cameo is, oh, 1930s. And I agree on...
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