Bonhams seems to have semi-fallen for it.
A regular cameo bird dog, you are. What city was this guide for & what was the year?Edit: Found it....
I'd say she's a very pretty generic Flora. That mix of white & yellow gold is very 1930s. The stones...? Blue is too rich & deep for small...
Charlie has made a post revealing mood disorder crash. Think comments here should be taken with that in mind.
The one on the Bay looks like it's a painting from the same vantage, different time of day. But what painter puts their name in block letters at...
[ATTACH] Wonder whether that downward sloping section isn't meant to go the other way up, to catch drips rather than to help them on the way to...
Maybe there was a wood base. Easier on surfaces than metal hippocamp feet.
I don't know which is worse: knowing that people around me are armed; not knowing who around me might be armed.
She gets superb cameos & does a lot of good research on them, but, like all of us, she is wrong sometimes & in this case I think we have wishful...
Both cameos are of the poet Pascoli? I sincerely doubt it. I think Pascoli is the very skilled cutter. He really mastered the pose with the...
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Ammendola is a contemporary cameo cutter, maybe affiliated with CASCO, which has a stable of cutters. For subject matter I would go with Venus &...
I thought there was a chance they were color change sapphires, but definitely not. Pin/clasp arrangement is backwards, unless you're left handed....
There is what is probably the medallist's mark at 6 o'clock on the un-enameled side. (I'm not sure which side is obverse & which is reverse.)...
Egg poacher as I remember: [ATTACH] But there is also: [ATTACH]
Think this is the classic technique, but we Americans like things to be a uniform shape, so we have pans that are just for what we call poached...
I thought of the more pedestrian poached eggs.
Think this is a typo on the part of the web page. Surely it's MATER DEI?
A search for 'bookchain necklace' will turn up others with the same feeling.
J. Trodnet?
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