Worn by quite a lady of the house. Hope you find your watch, key & seal.
Verdura made some things with seashells.
Everything I could contribute has already been said. Wonder if it was ever used by some fine lady to sew a fine seam.
The little girl's hair is also consistent with 20s/early 30s. My mother told me she hated those big bows but her little brother wanted one.
You got me, have not seen this one before. MmePlantier is probably on the right track with a scene from the Trojan War. This may have been the...
I do not think they're replicas of something of an earlier period. When they were made they were probably an original design. But it looks like...
May well have been inspired by depictions of the Graces. The whole thing looks to me like a hodgepodge of pseudo-Renaissance decorations,...
Sounds like a lab grown purple sapphire. Under UV light the color change stones turn green & red, so you've ruled that out. Setting screams 1970s.
From color on my monitor I would say tourmaline, but in dim lighting, peridot/olivine another possibility.
Do the 'tooth test' recommended by Lark. Rub the pearls against your teeth. If they feel like glass, they probably are. Also, it would be...
. Nut. Quite clever. I like it & novelty items are not my favorite things most days.
Curved bottom inside says stamps to me too.
[ATTACH] While I see the points of similarity, what I see is: a fully armed & armored Athena standing in a posture usually reserved for men; two...
Somewhere in between. Not sure how much market there is for this sort of thing today. It looks well made in its way. A signature would help....
I know I wrote a wordy response to this and it has completely disappeared. Even if you leave the page without posting, doesn't system save a...
Maybe he's getting into the milk bottle?
You might do better starting with the hypothesis that a signature on a painting is not genuine. Then work at trying to see if you can disprove that.
We like pix as big as we can get them. You did just fine.
Tautve, I admire your optimism.
He would not put his signature in parentheses. That makes it a notation, not a signature. The other one you show is the original. Compare the...
Separate names with a comma.
