Mexican copper duck button 1950s/60s.It is on cbweiser dot com for $18.
Someone had a box of 4 year old unsold silver cups in a warehouse.The coronation came along and the "medals" could be soldered to a hole cut into...
The stone looks like sandstone/siltstone.
South Pacific limpets and fish vertebrae.They really don't look like Hawaiian Opihi shells but the mollusk probably taste the same.The pink shells...
Sea turtles occur worldwide in tropical water.
The "cartouches" are not orientated correctly.Chinese language is written top to bottom and right to left.
Looks like a bottle corker.
There were 10's of thousands of them made for the 200th Bicentennial in that size,most were plated pot metal with a fair number in brass and copper.
size?
Google "fake hematite",natural hematite is fairly low on iron content.
Did you test with a magnet? Fake/man made hematite is magnetic,natural rarely is.
Looks more like it was someone playing with a wax pen and cast it.Electroforming only "plates" an already made object like leaves,acorns,etc.
Yes and the areas around the dragon's teeth.It also looks like the area in front of the mouth should have had material removed.
It's right in front view...each drill is a pilot hole for a saw.On the back side over several drill holes there are marks of a slitting/grinding...
Probably not jadeite,strange thing is the carving was never finished.
According to the ruler,,, they are 3/8ths of an inch or about 9/10 mm.
First you would need to define "real".It is a squash blossom necklace,but even with a good photo and no marking listed anyone could have made...
Looks like black star sapphires,needs overhead sunlight or a beam of light to see the star.
Unchased are the areas which have had nothing done to the surface of the metal
Just a guess there is more than 50 pattern lines made by a "compass point" which were not followed when the piece was chased.A number of these...
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