I think they're gorgeous, but I can't help also thinking how easy they would be for a cat to knock over. And with that tassel on the...
Yup: [ATTACH] Must have been painstaking work, & not a bad job either. This is the real stuff: [ATTACH]
You should see the language my cats use when they get to typing!
I was signed in to eBay, yes, so maybe they recognized the device/URL the report form was sent from, even though I was not reporting the item as...
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Putto/putti is usually reserved for wingless little boys in the world I inhabit. Ivory masters such as Duquesnoy loved them: [ATTACH] Cupid (or...
I like that the heavens are filled with psyches [ATTACH] [ATTACH] as well as with cupids [ATTACH]
Routinely mistaken for lava. I love how one thing has led to another as I have learned about cameos. I did not know the name Reverchon until I...
I don't have a photo of a little piece I have, but used to see many like it, & I suspect there's some connection of time/place/ maker with Mikey's...
No, but if you go to the Cameos Show & Tell thread, you will see that you can sell ivory, call it lava, & eB is just fine with it. So, 'French...
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Celluloid or similar, I think, based on the regularity, perfect parallel spacing of the lines.
Think they also get something about precious metals. My memory says that someone once told me that they were taking a GIA course on pearls, but...
https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/223099645_tp-danbiere-paris-signed-cameo-relief-trinket-box-mount-pleasant-sc/?from=alert&utm_source=LA_SavedA...
@PepperAnna From a Liberotti set: [ATTACH]
Heaven help me, but I just bought another little inexpensive, unmounted Schmoll. Looks like early work (read: not that skilled) but a figure I...
I think it gets printed in English more often as Winken& Blinken ("are two little eyes, and Nod is a little head...")
Correction: It"s Tige. [MEDIA]
No maybe. Wikipedia: "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" is a poem for children written by American writer and poet Eugene Field and published on March...
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