From my work trying to identify cameo subjects & their sources, I have learned that the received wisdom on these matters is not always correct....
You see these a lot just as parts of a necklace, not working as ojime. I always think of them as rose beads, or floral at any rate.
They don't quite look like ivory, although it's hard to tell with such small bits. Bone would be my guess. I'm a fairly tall woman, but neck is...
Maybe for stitching leather, after the holes have been punched?
First took a look in the one little monograph I have on Parian ware, It's not indexed, so my cursory look through the pix & bits of text that...
When you have a keris, you know you want @Any Jewelry
It's unusual to see circled pearls drilled in that direction, so that the circles run parallel to the thread the pearls are strung on. I also...
Love the way, now it's cleaned up, the stones refract light. Paste or crystal, surely. Think you can safely date to the Victorian era; placing...
Believe Camille was a man. So others know what we mean: [ATTACH]
A bit like the Camille Tharaud mark, but not it I'm afraid.
'French' curve?* * Think that's what my Fisher Body model maker dad would have called it, but Googling, seems the term properly applies to...
I could tell komo was just funnin' me, even without blowing me a kiss. ;)
I was thinking perhaps the handle slots into a separate wooden piece, quite likely round, into which the hair is attached. Then, if all the...
Handle for a fly whisk?
Looks like a sorority pin & the triangles looked like deltas to me. There is a delta delta delta (tri-delta) sorority old enough, but their...
Not sure I know what veneer means in the context of teeth, but mine are virtually all crowns, including top & bottom front teeth, & I can still...
Looks carved to me. This would be a large piece of material if bone & I see none of the usual indicators of that material. It's a small piece if...
I was thinking jasper for the turtles.
It says Athenai, plural form, just as in English. Surely the goddess is not designated this way?
Since it says 'Athens' on it, presumably a souvenir.
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