Turtle Man is a popular netsuke design. https://www.ebay.com/itm/224383853288...
What in the world happened to that poor thing?! Have never seen one splitting in quite that way. Well, you do like a challenge. Aluminum foil...
Yup. Could still be attractive with a wash & brush.
Looks very much like uranium glass to me. Michelle/Bronco, if you hang out here for any time, you will learn that we love finding what a UV...
You've set us a challenge. We will have more success finding antique men's rings with intaglios than with cameos, with perhaps one exception:...
Among today's suggestions on things I would perhaps like to buy came this auction lot:...
Lavrentii, another word you can use when searching for something like this is 'ewer'. I love this one& think that little flourish that would be...
Quite the bevy.
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On one lobe it is easier to find the piercing from the back & on the other it's not much problem, so any unwanted antique earrings can go to...
The tiger eye Ceres-like cameo looks more mid-20th century to me. The intaglio is copying from 'the antique', i.e., antiquity, but the ring...
Those definitely could be as old as later Victorian. Nice find. :)
@kyratango Can you get anything out of this? It used to be a source for jewellery marks, but has been reworked into something more expansive:...
The scene is Cupid/Eros in front of his mother, Venus/Aphrodite, with Psyche, represented as a butterfly, between them. The goddess of love did...
As in elephant tusk. What you do with it will depend on the options allowed to you under the laws of your locale. Sale of ivory is highly...
It is elephant ivory.
I think the initials go the other way up: [ATTACH]
In case anyone was wondering why the goddess of grain & the harvest would have a torch, it is not for crop burning. It is an allusion to the time...
If the whole thing is quite light in weight, I would think something like Celluloid; of it feels denser then something more like Bakelite. It has...
The fact that only the pin stem is made of metal suggests it dates to WWII when there were limitations on metal for non-military use. Very cool,...
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