Have I ever mentioned I hate jade nearly as much as black stuff? I know I can't tell nephrite from jadeite based on my own experience, so...
I think resin too. From mmarkomnl's description, painted or coated with something. Welcome, @mmarkomnl
We made them when I was in 4th grade, twice that long ago.
The look of the fracture lines is bringing me around to stone. After consulting with my minerals guide. would have to guess this is nephrite, not...
Antique85, when you run the edge of a fingernail over the back surface, what do you feel?
Could be B002.
Just what I wanted to see, not what you want to hear. By itself it's not proof, but it appears there is no undercutting defining the flower...
This prompted me to go check on my memory that a beautiful sugar bowl & creamer I have from a grandmother are Haviland. They are. Sadly, they...
None at all taken. I suppose the first step is to break up the books with an objet tastefully interspersed here & there. What sorts of things do...
A lot of rocks called onyx are actually marble.
It's so blobby, I thought if I said Cairo, someone was sure to come along & say Alexandria. Suspect OP is mainly interested in fineness.
Is the marble polished? Best to do a little reading up on how to clean marble before going at it with alcohol. Marble is not as tough as it seems.
The embroidered one, maybe a cap badge/hat decoration? I was once told that those mixed plastic/metal pin assemblies were a war time thing due to...
Ghopper's is a cat-free home. He has more freedom in his display choices than some of us do. If I did not have my display cabinet, hundreds of...
I don't trust testers. The distance between glass & stone is not far. I see a lot of carnelian & sard; these do not look like it to my eye.
All of the beads look like glass to me.
A Thousand and One Nights.
[ATTACH] It is marked as 800 silver. The P is the date letter for 1939-1940, the last year they used Roman letters before switching to Arabic.
From the link Janet provided: it is not uncommon to see her signature with that of three or four other artists under an item designed by her.
I was squinting at it earlier & that's what I thought it might be.
Separate names with a comma.
