Cracks/fissures which were filled in with "quartz" over a period of time.
The stones look like jasper with some type of inclusions.The "street" stone cutters in India and other countries start at around 12 years of...
Tiki bar/room fad of the 60's or maybe Pier One Imports in the 70's.
@gregsglass When were you looking for caps? When we lived at Yorktown,Va. in the mid 70's a member of the local gem and mineral club brought...
It depends on when it was made,the uranium at 2% isn't worth worrying about but some of it was made with 20%....................
Hard and soft are relative terms,annealed pure copper is "soft" and annealed brass is slightly harder than the copper.Work hardened/die struck...
I guess there are companies now flattening bottle caps for hobbyist......
@Bronwen Not sure what they did in the past copper jewelry plating,but there are thousands of gold plated copper jewelry today........
That's how they were made,modern caps are not as "tall" because of the thin plastic on the inside as opposed to the thicker cork liner.
@ bluumz Plating kept the piece from oxidizing,pinchbeck would oxidize as any copper/brass item over time......
Hard to say what the exact alloy was used for the piece,more copper and less zinc would be redder,more zinc and less copper would be more yellow...
Pinchbeck today is referred as jeweler's brass,NU-Gold,red brass.Depending on the ratio of copper and zinc the color can look like 14K yellow gold...
That just posed another question,the 2 holes one on top and the other on the bottom.Was the piece something other a brooch and the pin hardware...
Looks like the caps were never on bottles.It could have been something an employee took or promotional piece.
The photo is too out of focus to tell,an in focus photo of the area, a side view and the backside of the pendant might help.
Did you mean galvanized steel?Tin can't be galvanized,maybe you were thinking tinned steel.
The bottom of the vase appears to be covered with pitch,The repaired base was probably from a bad casting and a piece was added for the repair.
Licking stones can be dangerous to your health,natural turquoise is porous and the surface will act like a sponge,malachite probably will not kill...
The cap and guard are cast from brass,the blade appears to be acid etched and not engraved and the design on the top of the blade is"file work"....
Add them to the thread,many eyes can see different things.
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