I'd be looking at Bohemia/czechoslovakia. Decent quality.
Or stick a battery movement in it, if you just want the look of it. Which is quite nice.
Gimme.
Yup, aventurine is metal flecks, usually gold or copper. I've some other colour changing glass which does yellow/green and a piece that does a...
Cristallaria, or to you, glass. ;) It basically means it's Swedish style glass made in Argentina.
It's also called neodymium glass, because that's the element that is added to the glass recipe. It changes colour according to the wavelength of...
Ah, gotcha. I've seen some bubble buds with that label, and I think they may have been ascribed to Aseda.
Try using neodymium glass as well, that might do it.
Totally understand, and I know what you mean about patina. Sunshine cloths are actually very suited to delicate, if you ever need to clean...
I'd love to see that with the silver gently shined with a Sunshine cloth.
Me too, it's Price Kensington 1930s. Stick, oh, ten to fifteen quid on it - if it were one of those really bright patterns it would do better.
Me too. It might also have had a single drawer base.
There you go. ;) That's the joy of living in the lovely muddle that is London with Punjabi neighbours.
Indian sacred cow with Punjabi script.
That's Tom Daley, that is!
Glass from Egypt, Jordan and Israel is typically very thin indeed. The Jordanian stuff is lovely: I somehow got home a large ewer.
There's a sort of siggie in the second photo? It's something with an S in it. It's really well done, and driving me mad. ;0
No, it's that they're incredibly paper thin and really really fragile.
I think this was made later and engraved retrospectively.
Those are Egyptian. They're sold widely there as souvenirs, and I like them. They'd sell, but they're almost impossible to pack.
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