I always give silver a light polish. Polishing cream is a mess for pieces like this, I use a foaming polish like Hagerty Silver Foam or Wright's...
The small ones are forget me nots I think. Strictly speaking, I think a cameo is any image where the carving is raised off the background. But I...
I have seen it for sale on ebay but never in real life. I had one Saphiret pin years ago and have had several angel skin coral necklaces, I have...
Did you check here? http://www.ddoty.com/
Sorry, no help here other than to say the flowers are tulips :)
If you can look inside the hole and see white then it's dyed howlite. If not it may be turquoise but I think hands on inspection by a jeweler who...
Can you look inside the bead holes?
Victorian in design, from the back I would agree celluloid and the pin stem and clasp look late Victorian. JMHO :)
She's a beauty!!!!!
For $15 I would grab it. I would use it for displaying antique jewelry at an antique show :)
It is not silver overlay, it is a silver encrusted etch :)
I know nothing about Chinese or Japanese porcelain, but that is lovely and looks old to my untrained eye :)
You are a trend setter ;)
That is a sweetie evelyb30!
You do know that as soon as you buy a new one the old one will turn up, right :wideyed:
Yep, I see it now :)
Also cameos are suddenly in fashion again so they are commanding higher prices :)
Do you have a gem tester? Can you show the whole front, not just the close up?
Take a look at this page and see if you can find it: https://www.realorrepro.com/article/Dating-brooch-fasteners
Compare you Sandwich piece to this page to help ID the maker: http://www.ecommercebytes.com/cab/abu/y202/m11/abu0083/images/glasschart
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