This is the before & after I always show: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
She may have been so familiar with the process that it didn't occur to her to explain that bit. Our communication was via e-mail, and not...
Maybe they were going for a Vauxhall glass look.
I don't know how it got to be recommended cameo care, but I wondered whether collectors of seashells oiled their specimens, so contacted a woman...
Agree on bookend. There are others: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1549242621/vintage-mann-pierrot-bookends-black or if you have money to burn:...
The monogram reminds me of Albrecht Durer's. With her bonnet & apron, carrying a small basket, I don't think the lady is concerned with the...
My assumption is that it is a man's pinkie ring, which accounts for how it got so knocked around. You could see it that way, as War & Love,...
Opinions/preferences on this vary, so hopefully some of our other collectors (@PepperAnna @mirana ) will share their practices too. Seems as...
Hi, Simona. Good to have you back. Yes, cameo is stone & I think it is probably all one piece, although I can see why Holly would think glue was...
The construction is the easiest, fastest, cheapest possible. I would hazard it was strung in China.
Well at least they're flat crowned herbivore teeth, not little pointy ones. I think it's just the cutter showing off with some gratuitous detail.
Is it uranium glass?
The animals I think I can identify relate more to Egypt.
Bento box?
These little insulators are often ivory.
I changed a couple of letters & got this slightly different version: Ein herk, das eisengleich zum Leiden, hast ben den Trubfass Stichenstill,...
From what is now long ago in this thread, see the link in this post & in the one following: CAMEOS: Show & Tell or Ask & Answer
He works the lathe by foot.
Sort of a commedia dell'arte flapper, isn't she.
I like your interpretation. Could be. I think it's in the vein of images of putti engaging in grownup pursuits, which sometimes use small-C...
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