Wish I could hold a yard sale, instead of having to face up to the necessity of selling on line & having to pack & ship. But, despite all the...
The fob seal is probably brass & the red eyes likely to be glass. A UV light could tell you if they are actually ruby. Bakers is correct that it...
On my monitor the stones have a purpleish tint, but if they are brown, smoky quartz (sometimes misnamed smoky topaz) would be the obvious candidate.
Ah, I see the ambiguity in what I said. Not at all. All the safety measures suggest that someone valued them very much. In my collection of...
Am I correct that this has a tongue in box clasp, a figure 8 safety clasp & a guard chain? A lot of security measures for poor quality pearls....
Looks like you've also got Athena bestowing something on her & Hermes presenting Pandora to Epimetheus. The story is told by Hesiod. [IMG] [IMG]
[IMG] This is Mercury carrying Pandora to earth. Was going to add a cameo example & found I had this in my Pandora file, probably from an eBay...
Don't know whether this qualifies as a 'half doll', but you might see what a search using that term gets you. What is she holding in her left...
Diamond is the hardest substance produced naturally on earth &, on the Mohs hardness scale, corundum (sapphire & ruby) is second hardest, so...
This one is Hesiod & Perses, who is much younger than Hesiod: https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/hesiod-admonishing-perses...
Think it is more likely to be Homer; look at the eyes. And he's much better known to the general public. But I'm not a classicist, WDIK?
Think that would be the 3 Graces who are doing the vestments. The group flying in with the jewellery might be Hours, whose number is uncertain &...
I didn't check their recent sales history, but I bet most of the time they take undisclosed offers.
The mark, the subject & the workmanship are all similar to the work of Charles Schmoll. However, after looking through examples of his various...
Takes offers. :D
Seller has a number of cameos, but seems to know absolutely nothing about them. I suspect not even that not all of them go with the long axis of...
She's just exquisite. I don't think I've seen the like executed in shell before. Given the flower in front of her, I think she has to be seen as...
Gorgeous! Gotta run just now. Will opine later.
I'm going to call them book huggers. :D
The drawings resemble the work of John Flaxman (see his illustrations for the Iliad & the Odyssey). I can understand how someone might be...
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