Looks like a black pearl. Looks like someone has done a wire wrap job on it, so probably not a naturally (expensive) black pearl.
I sold one, to a Japanese buyer, that I found among my mother's stuff after she died. She would have acquired it for its collectability, not for...
If I had it in hand to really feel texture, weight, even smell it, I would have a much better idea of the nature of the piece. With photos...
Do we know what color streak gutta percha or Vulcanite would leave? It's tough from photos: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Agree with AJ that the high...
Just had a tussle with Goog's AI, trying to get it to cough up a document it found for me, much to my surprise then, years ago. Now it keeps...
Not to say that there aren't plenty of humans who don't know what they're talking about but tell you with an air of great authority anyway. I...
It seems to me that we are currently with these AI 'overviews' that pop up at the top of search results where we were when Wikipedia first...
Sometimes I wish ladies still powdered their noses. I could so easily have a collection of compacts.
And yet the system created a tag. Same person, next day?
When I Lensed this photo of the piece, Goog's AI cited sources correctly IDing it as Vulcanite. Ut takes so little these days to check on this...
How can this post & this profile both be true? [ATTACH] AI is now asking questions?
They might do OK with coral, if they took that module. I know GIA has a course on pearls. When I go to the antique/vintage jewellery show, many...
This evening spotted a cameo that is being described as resin, even though set in 14K, with a commensurate opening bid, that looks like lava to...
Another beware auctioneers bearing misinformation. "Mourning Carved Bog Oak Silver Mounted Brooch." [IMG] Only if bog oak is moldable & comes...
I'm in awe of your lady.
Continuing education for the eye. Auctioneer provides one photo & describes it thusly: "Antique French cameo pendant in ebony wood. Featuring an...
Because many Victorian cameos are in mounts with a memento compartment on the back, & because those compartments sometimes contain hair, thought...
Punjabi? Sikh? I don't know, but I know who probably does: @Any Jewelry
Wow! I've seen hydrangea bushes before, but not like this. Is it a special type?
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