Here's a bracelet from the same garage sale source as the Indian Enamel pendant. This one is also gold, and the rubies have been blacklit, so all...
@komokwa Finally got some more film for my box camera and started a thread for one of the other trinkets ..
Agree with Mat, also piece is porcelain, so not satsuma ..gilding very reminiscent of Macao decorators.
Thanks, much appreciated!
Interesting. I find at the local level they are especially bad, but perhaps that's just in Canada, not in the UK ...after all, Britain is the...
These figures have a Royal Dux quality about them and a finish quite dissimilar to any any Arnart pieces I've just looked at online .. hard to...
I'm thinking shipping line? That's a guess though.
The piece I used to own was from the Shanghai branch, but as @Any Jewelry says, they were originally a Hong Kong firm - and still are today!
I would say post WWII, fifties or later.
Agree, graveyard thing. Buy the plastic lobster instead.
These are usually Bohemian made although some were also made in Germany - I wasn't aware they were made in the States, but maybe?
I have no idea who Arnart is but I believe this mark is Porzellanfabrik Kalk
Yep it's sterling all right, very nice, Shanghai maker, 1910 ish.
gives a whole new interpretation to "public" convenience:bucktooth:
No doubt! My Chinese friend has a cool keyboard that uses both English and Chinese. In Chinese mode, you either select a Chinese character or...
No kidding! ;)
Similar piece of furniture ... https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/33810144_small-austrian-hand-painted-armoire [IMG]
I have no doubt ANYONE who has worked with a 21st century politician of ANY stripe would have very little positive to say about them, and rightly...
Well eXCUUUUSE me:p Oh I see .. you're talking about Boris? Maybe the fact he hasn't been emasculated yet still appeals to some of the female...
It might be ..sometimes they have a small clear glass stopper too. Bohemian I believe.
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