It would not be odd for such a piece to have the bail screwed directly into the material. It looks like a fragment of elephant ivory to me, but I...
Welcome Willcpfc. She is very pretty; by convention generally considered to be the goddess Flora. Italian lava & shows signs of being a molded...
More of a loving cup than a bowl.
If the pearls pass the tooth test, I see no reason they would not be given a 14K clasp.
All three are helmet shell, I would put them to the 30s - 40s, Italian settings. Last one is goddess Diana. Mark on the first one is likely to...
Looks like a natural material to me. What makes you say this?
'I will have that' is always powerful.
Cufflink is a reasonable guess. Maybe one got lost & this was a way to salvage the other. Best guess is the cameo is glass, with figure glued...
But you don't even get any handwriting.
First of January & my new old calendar is all ready to go, taking over from a Tiffany glass one. Thank you so much. I feel singularly postally...
Very pretty. Agree on the dating. Nice that the initials are so legible; too bad I don't know who AZ is. The letters are acid etched. Merry...
That was my thinking about the feet, that this piece was designed to sit over some type of brazier. A culture that could make this could do...
The very odd feet make me wonder if this piece isn't meant to sit on top of another vessel or on a frame.
My cameras are Fujifilm Finepix. Think not made anymore. I asked a couple of sellers from whom I was a regular buyer what camera they used to...
Welcome, Bespoke Junk. We have some real research hounds here, so you'll have plenty of company.
I have done very well with & paid much less for the 2 pre-owned cameras I have bought on eBay. It is only 2 because after years of good service a...
Could be bronze. What else did you learn from your grandmother? How did she acquire it? Why did she believe it was for cosmetics?
Could be that silver pens modeled to look like bamboo were a thing.
Nostalgie de la poo?
What changed your mind? It looks more like a pen than like a spear to me.
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