It's a Bloodletting/ phlebotomy tool.
It is damascene,but the design is hard to place origin.It could be India or the middle east.
Looks like it was planished first and then the rest of the designs were die stamped.
With the porosity in the guard and lack of removing casting residue on the handle,I don't know of any military allowing a substandard piece.
There weren't any real limitations 2000 years ago at least not for shell cameos.They had metal tools for scraping much the same as those still...
I wonder what an 1800 year old cameo looks like............
It's Esse jewelry......... not older than 2007.
Hard to tell with the lighting in the photo,but they look like black lip pearl and the small ones black onyx.
If it had 2 weak spots then it was sized larger with a piece of metal in the past and they didn't do a good job.The ring was die stamped and would...
If the top piece where the diamond is set is white metal, most likely the ring base is 14K with a platinum piece on the top. The ring can be...
The design of the pattern has been sold by a number of suppliers for many years and not sure who supplies it today.See photo on link at bottom of...
Pattern wire,commercial prong setting most likely student/hobbyist made.Stone looks like smokey quartz in photo.
I believe some months ago there was a thread about 3 "goblets" and what appeared to be a cutting blade fixture, it was also a tobacco blending piece.
Can't tell what metal from the photos,but it was heat colored with a gas torch.
Looks like a cast Renaissance festival fantasy item,a real wax stamp would have been hand engraved with much better quality.
US Navy officer
@ kingcake Photos are too small to see details of the inlay,it looks like a copper alloy and silver alloy but can't tell which ones from photo.
If it is filled with black pitch, the melting temp is 250-300 degrees F. A paint stripping gun on high would probably get hot enough and would be...
Looks like a glob of solder from a repair and to the right the metal appears to be copper color in the photo.
The end has been "rolled" over and I doubt the actual thickness is more than 1mm,look at the top where the damage appears to have separated and it...
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