'Ceffion' should read 'Cession'. I read LVIII as: Kauft Cession und Wechset Briefte, for which IM Translator gives me: Buys cession and bills of...
What Google is showing me for Empoli glass is sedate compared to this; some elaborate forms, but mostly monochromatic. This combo, with the vivid...
I see no reason to think it is not silver, although, if the setting is also Italian, probably 800, not 925. Could be from 1930s. Marcasites seem...
I concur with OBB that the use of the cameos is a strong indicator for Italy. I have a loopy bon bon with a cameo on it that could only be...
Helmet shell, hand carved, Italian. The figure is from a set of 12 nymphs, known as the Hours of the Day & Night of Raphael. It is generally...
Pinxit = painted it; et = &; sc (sculp) = engraved it. So he did both the original painting & the engraving.
Looks like moss agate to me.
Might be one from a set featuring the Four Beauties, who seem to do double duty as the Four Seasons.
I'm sorry to learn we did not go with 'ocelotl' for the name.
'Sectional' is the word for these.
Short for the Latin for 'year': annum.
Do we think it could be this one? https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/nytimes/name/susan-rowland-obituary?id=13852278 She did do prints.
Backs too, please.
Agree. With a second look when I'm not falling asleep, can see they are not meant to be a matched pair. Still the possibility of being molded....
Quite alive, in a special pressurized tank. Another seemed to be having a love affair with the filter.
Hi again, Tammy. Could you go back into your post & make all photos full size? (Select Edit, then think you have to go into the Other section to...
Welcome, Tammy. Bring 'em on, we love to look & test our knowledge.
But you're correct - the nautilus belongs to the cephalopod family. They had a few in a special exhibition at the American Museum of Natural...
Think you & @Kronos who got it immediately, are absolutely right. From one of the listings at your link: [ATTACH]
The first guy reminds me of Flemish paintings of tavern scenes; the second made me think of commedia dell'arte. Taken together, looks like a...
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