Did you wash the bead before the baking soda test? It must be my sniffer, but I never get the smell no matter what I do :(
@verybrad I would call that an unsigned beauty, mid 1950s-60s. sorry, there are a few companies who used that kind of construction and without a...
I agree, pietra dura :)
@verybrad can you please post a good photo of the back of the rhinestone pin? The center stone has an Aurora Borealis finish (AB rhinestone),...
Can you take a close up of the bird in the cross? I suspect it's not mosaic but pietra dura but I need to see a close up. Either way it's a beauty!
This is the patent for the clip mechanism, not the design of the front of the earrings :)
As a design patent it comes up as the clip mechanism, the original application filed by Ballou & Co. is dated 1934:...
I like the one on the bottom left. White moonglow glass painted with moths, very unusual. [ATTACH]
Got a lot of jools and a couple of silver items. Nothing special but quite a few pieces that will nicely fill in my table at local sales. The...
JMHO, both are lovely despite the damage. I would have picked them up for those low prices just to rescue them :)
The back looks like fiber board, so not vintage or antique, JMHO :wideyed:
Sorry I can't come up with anything more :(
Take it out into strong sunlight, if uranium glass you will see a glow. It won't be as obvious as with a black light, but you will see something...
According to what I am seeing online, ironstone is earthenware, not porcelain.
Abalone.
Near our house is a portion of the Cape Cod Rail Trail, and old railroad bed that has been paved over and is a bike/walking trail. Where the trail...
Looks crudely made :(
@TallCakes
I guess I thought transfer printed because the area I circled in bright green is done so differently from the the over-painted flowers, umbrella,...
Can't help much, sorry, but they look like transfer printed (the terra cotta color) with painted details (green, blue, mulberry, black, yellow)....
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