Does she have a dagger in her hand, or is that just a fold of her mantle? The Greek Muse of Tragedy, Melpomene, is often shown with a dagger....
Me too. Antiques Roadshow thinks it has an idea. The link in this post: Gatierre, Danbiere & Other Mysteries
Does the One Ring whisper to you at night?
I'm still pondering this. I do not have tortoise in my cameo collection. I did once have some tortoise hair combs around. And this summer had...
Where did you find it? Oh, you don't mean that kind of where, do you? Itinerant preacher or Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show?
I think the good solid silver mounts so many of them have are a large part of what sells them as something special. But the fact that the mount...
You paid a reasonable price. She has many, many sisters. Note the auction house does not specify material.
It's not lava. It is a high quality, mass produced piece. We have discussed these: Gatierre, Danbiere & Other Mysteries
Looks really comprehensive. Have never seen a cookbook with thumb tabs like a dictionary before. Are the recipes for the cuisine of any...
Given how strongly all the other lines of the initials are incised, I think it is CM, with the horizontal line in the middle of the C being one of...
That's another 12K mark, the only one shown almost right way up.
There's the chance that Giorgio Pichi, Jeweller, had a shop that sold objets de vertu in addition to jewellery. I'd be reluctant to mess with the...
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Looks like a bad design for an inkwell but a good one for a mustard pot. You just need the little spoon to go with it.
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This is not identical to yours, but yours is the same sort of thing, a plaster casting of the Diana of Versailles.
Jet. You will not see brooch findings screwed directly into the body this way. Edit: you will not see it on glass.
Welcome to the Party, Birdynumnum.
[ATTACH] Asking out of complete ignorance: would Bakelite look like this under the surface? And I think I see several different surface...
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