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Is there anything on the bottom? Think the trident would be original to it; can't imagine the original getting damaged to the point of needing...
They were, in fact, quite fashionable. What's special about this one is the good condition & its family connection.
[IMG] [IMG] [IMG] The intaglio may be black onyx; also possible that it is glass. This appears to be in very good condition. Stone or glass...
I find the appearance to be completely consistent with elephant ivory.
Now you say it, I can see Haring dancers. And I had one of these scarabs as a souvenir from an earlier Tut tour.
I know the scarabs themselves, along with billions of others, were made in Egypt, are still being made in Egypt. Can't tell from pix whether...
Cooley?
And another: https://www.ebay.com/itm/354665174864
I meant its exposure to sand & saltwater over time, not to a man-driven process. I think this was once a highly polished stone.
Unglazed white tile. It has been suggested in these pages that, if you have no other surface to use, the underside of a toilet tank lid can...
[ATTACH] The pink 'stone' is of course artificial; the stones below are chrysoberyls.
It's a bit hard to tell about the stone because it has been sandblasted. In pix it does appear to have a cat's eye effect, but also appears to be...
Sard is dark brown chalcedony. Sardonyx is banded agate with alternating sard & white layers. If these are any kind of quartz, sard, which is a...
* Since Keats lifted the tale from the Decameron, perhaps they would have known the story without knowing the poem.
I didn't look at this thread when it first went up because I thought, Ho hmu, Mexican pottery. But this is stunning. So glad I dropped in & that...
The gemologist is actually in the closet with the UV light.
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