Beat me to it. :kiss::kiss:
It looks like Tatia to me.
From the photo I can see there are marks on the pin stem, but too small to read.
I often have trouble distinguishing figure from ground in photos & thought your piece was a cameo that looked as though it had been chipped, which...
I would say shark rather than fish.
I put up a pretty good one when eBay had guides. Too bad they took them all down. Prior to 1946 the Egyptian national mark for silver was a cat;...
Welcome, Simon. We like to see photos full size (& we'll be very interestedin anything else you want to show us): [IMG] My specialty is cameos...
Someone who at least knows owls: the feet are correct with 2 toes facing forward, not 3.
The marks on the first piece are Egyptian marks for 80[0] silver. I would not be surprised if there is a partial mark on the pin stem, possibly a...
I assume it goes this way up; otherwise it is defying gravity. [ATTACH]
Welcome, Fox. A search for 'beer stein music box' turns up many such. You can get an idea of how much is being asked for them from that.
Sipper or dipper? Edit: Ah, I see the text, but still wonder if it's not a typo.
Something like a grain scoop? Interesting piece.
A favorite from my own collection: [ATTACH]
Definitely Herakles/Hercules. The lion skin is routinely described as being that of the Nemean lion, but mythology also contains the story of...
First one is really interesting, not likely to be a mass produced piece, even though the cameo element is glass. You might apply the word...
Shakespeare is hardstone (agate, as Marie said) & very well engraved. There is some twisted wire missing from the front & looks like he may have...
Just because he was in San Jose in 1940 doesn't mean he stayed there the rest of his life. I don't know how the census was conducted then, but if...
And brass smells like brass, if you heat it up a little by rubbing briskly on fabric. (Not fabric you care about if the metal hasn't been polished.)
Eriachia? But think Debora may be right.
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