I love threads like this as everyone's similar pieces fill in the jigsaw rather than looking at one piece standing alone.
Kyra, it goes beautifully with your top too!
Wow, that is stunning!. I'll find my snake, he is very similar but smaller and only a very thin band of white. If I remember he's got a very odd...
What do you mean by flat please?
That's fascinating that both of ours have the odd hole in the back. It's realistic to suppose that lovely pieces of stone were reused if the...
I've been waiting 18 years. That's how long ago we got engaged :hilarious::hilarious:
My mother had cataract surgery and she says it has been an amazing success!. Your Fiancé would be very happy to know you wear the ring every day....
Wow, OK, daughter and I were both wrong. She guessed 1920 and I went for 1890.
Thankyou :-)
Late 19thc?
Thankyou. I’ve got another one somewhere which is a real oldie- a snake around a banded agate. I’ll dig it out tomorrow.
Could be!. I’ll have a closer look.
Wow! Mine have no clasp,just loose , arrived in a job lot so age indeterminate! Some have nice banding, others are not so clearly defined....
I've got some banded agate beads but I have no idea of they are Victorian or were made yesterday. I'll dig them out and have a look at them.
Where the dark stone meets the white band it looks brown which you can see on the photos above. The back looks black but I think it's very dark...
Ooh, that is so similar. Is that on a for sale listing @stracci?. And is there a photo of the pin?
That's what I was thinking but as I'm about to get OH to put a new pin in it, I'd like to get the right length.
Daughter said it looked like a big brown eye!:peeking:
Ah, I see what you mean now, I thought you were describing this setting as a pegged setting, not that the agate had come out of one. That makes...
No gap, it fits tightly. The black is the stone below the white band if that makes sense.
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