With the gray-white formula above the 17% iron would have some attraction to a niobium magnet.Since rhodium plated sterling and gold are first...
They look like commercial deer hide gloves someone had added a little bead work.
Any metal plated gold,silver,rhodium,etc. will react to a magnet depending on the strength of the magnet.
The only thing a magnet will tell you is if the piece is actually magnetic. There is magnetic gold used in jewelry,magnetic platinum and platinum...
It doesn't appear to be original,heavy filing marks on each side of the trombone end and residual solder around it also.
It is a marquetry plate,there have been kits available for at least a hundred years and commercial items also.The marks at the bottom of the mark...
Doubt it is Japanese,they wouldn't use "rivets" to add other colored metal,they would use zogan inlay.
Looks like repousse on some type of sheet metal tacked onto a piece of plywood.
Bovine of some type.
A photo of the whole piece would help.
Miniature Chinese Erhu/violin
The photos are not in focus and reflections,but the small stones look like standard round brilliant cut with large tables and not European cut.
1981 to present
Dotti, female fashion store in Australia and New Zealand.
It's a zinc printing plate,no engraving involved.
Looks more like some type of burl and not birds eye maple.
The ebay owl looks like a "fake",the OP's owl is questionable with the with 2 different T&Co marks.
Any good engraver can copy script styles,but the date looks like it was done with a rusty nail and by an amateur.
What does the back of the token look like? The button has mark of MC ? and the 2 pieces don't look like they belong to each other. The date on the...
Possibly obsidian
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