The cameo is shell, 50s/60s.
https://www.rubylane.com/item/2093710-H-021922-080/Cuff-Links-C-H-Chapin-Hollister
Or maybe it's C&H CO? https://poshmark.com/listing/Antique-C-H-Co-Sterling-Silver-and-Diamonte-Stones-Brooch-Pin-622aa82dffba944a4d2f909c Chapin...
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I'm straying off my patch here, but, anyone else think these would qualify as engine turned/guilloché (without enamel)? My semi-informed opinion...
[ATTACH] There's no doubt some proper heraldic term for the way the tree on the shield is contained other than 'fenced', but I don't know it.
I have lots of rings I need to sell. Many are cameos, chalcedony, so outside this racket. But many others are synthetic color change sapphires,...
Sheath for collapsible umbrella found in fridge.
@Hollyblue Can you give us an idea of how this engraved block might have been used?
https://www.metmuseum.org/primer/met-cloisters/unicorn-tapestries-story
Ex-voto in gratitude for a victory or other good fortune? Don't know if it helps in any way to confirm dating, but inscription is for San Juan...
I like the mossy one.
I am always highly suspicious of anything the comes out of China purporting to be an antiquity. They are so very good at faking them.
My kind of set: you only have to share the chocolate with one other person.
Maybe the + is just the & in the logo.
To my eye the plate is ivory, the glazing of the leaves is not too precise & the modeling is not clumsy.
Can't help with marks, but subject is Aphrodite bathing.
Just think how much better the world could be if we had more of these & fewer of the other kind.
"Eustachian block" is what the doctor called it when it happened to me. Felt like someone pushing a knitting needle into my brain.
I was going to say Barbie.
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