I remember you taught me some of this when you worked out the inscription on the back of the cameo of Alexei Olenin for me. I'll probably never...
What a transformation! Did you know it would clean up so well?
This is the myth that fits the cameo scene the best. The name Amalthea was assigned by ancient authors sometimes to the goat, sometimes to the...
I might have bought these because they are colors I like, but I would have assumed not ancient because a) there is so much out there being...
And I was ready to suggest the initials are PF. You're scary, you know that? Brilliant. But scary. (Something Ron says to Hermione.)
Z. Miebach to my eye.
Looks like there's a letter unaccounted for in the transliteration. Nikolai Li_dent.
There's an eBay seller from that part of the world who seems to have a limitless supply of expensive memento mori cameo rings.
Sounds as though you might be thinking of Essex crystal? The genuine stuff is quite pricey.
How do you keep it on if it is long enough to slide on over the hand? The peacock in the bracelet is upside down altogether. A respectable...
Before reading the back I was going to suggest the title Portrait of the Artist as a Young Vampire. Art or therapy?
A member of the family was a neighbor of my mother & went above & beyond in helping her when she was dying. So I have a Spalding on my Christmas...
A derisive name for eBay.
Do the letters above the red star in a pentagram look like CCCP?
Looks like a chimaera put together from parts of other old desks & cabinets, in my completely uninformed opinion.
Think below 'Made in Greece' it says something along the lines of made in Greece, in Greek. Above, 'Dodona'? Could be maker.
Yep, you want a Spaldeen. (Note there is no U in Spalding.)
Riviere?
And it's on casters. Bet they had trouble keeping the kids from playing on it.
Didn't realize the comment would be of such a sociological nature. All these people selling great aunt Tillie's prize cameo will be scandalized....
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