And before you ask, no, it is not Rebecca at the Well: https://cameotimes.com/index.php/profiles-1/religious/rebecca-at-the-well
Bluumz has it exactly, a swivel mount.
I'd probably use it as a Christmas tree ornament.
I have long noticed it goes both ways: in photos, gold looking silver & silver looking gold. I just use my camera in idiot mode, don't know how...
When you're ready for the graduate course: Cameo Signature Help Needed
It is real coral & it is Psyche. See Mirana has nipped in ahead of me with words of wisdom. Just went to check on some of my own collection...
Take a look at the work of Clayton Tom - amazing. I think 'Zuni' is a default term for a lot of sellers. I think of petit point when I think of...
:joyful:
If NA made, think more likely to be Navajo. They do serious inlay work & these stones are favorites.
That's what I have too. Originally bought it on recommendation of an eBay dealer of Zuni fetishes who takes great photos of her small wares....
Looks like it goes beyond the animals of the Chinese zodiac. It's like a combination scholar's stone & Noah's Ark.
[ATTACH]
Random, sometimes redundant remarks. Being a diamond & having a chip are not mutually exclusive states. 'Hardness' is rated by what can scratch...
It's not a name; it's something like patent applied for.
I definitely see 'Jas.' or 'Jav.' as the abbreviated first name of this Delfosse.
I'm not sure whether a simple acid test is able to differentiate between 800, 835, 900 & 925 silver.
[ATTACH] Every time the topic of testing precious metals with acid comes up I read eagerly. I have still never tried it myself, feeling I don't...
If you follow the link at the end of that article, you learn that you've just missed an exhibition & a calendar. Your sculpture could have been a...
The second one looks like a medicine bottle that has undergone the color change that can happen with weathered glass. I can imagine the handle &...
Separate names with a comma.