'Fraid so, but the subject is so unusual, won't be surprised if it does well even though not coral. This is not mine, but makes me smile: [ATTACH]
Welcome to the club, in both senses. :)
Nice to find a signed one. The signature is acid etched, & they're almost always difficult to read, like bubble letter graffiti. Probably from...
Me too. Not my field, so just want to learn to use the term correctly.
It is well made. And those squiggly grids that support the stones are very unusual, as are the 'stones' themselves. Egypt used to be a client of...
Did you find any more marks that are different from the basic 800 + assay office one? Could be a date letter there, maybe on the opposite edge.
Welcome, HIH. In answer to your opening question, When they pry it from my cold, dead hands. Our US members & some others will know what I mean.
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You need to think outside the box. They're on the front, stamped into the decorative border. You can see them in the first photo.
I have found those very rectilinear shaped marks & the practice of marking every major element in a piece, the use of 800 silver & eastern Arabic...
It has an Egyptian-looking mark for 800 silver on every panel. (A couple not well stamped but presumably the same as the ones that are.)
Is it decorated with moriage?
Beautiful Soup, so rich and green, Waiting in a hot tureen! Who for such dainties would not stoop? Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup! Soup of...
Is the 'pot' large enough to be a tureen?
The whole project got started because I would identify the subjects on cameos for other people, who urged that I should write a book. Not about...
Oh, I understood that. I just realized right off that I didn't need to hear more to add my 2 bits. I don't have experience with price guides for...
Thank you. And you helped make it better. :) It's useful, when an antique jewellery dealer has a perfectly lovely pink & white bacchante...
I only watched the very beginning of the video, enough to learn he's specifically talking about price guides. They always had the drawbacks...
Thank you! It's for the greater good, part of my campaign to end the confusion between conch shell & angel skin coral.
Does this qualify as Hollywood Regency?
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