What is the date letter supposed to be? Just in terms of when jewellery similar to this using small turquoise cabochons & tiny pearls was in...
Another mystery is why Google does not produce the Orpheus listing for me. Meanwhile, Oh Good Grief! I couldn't find this on the linked page:...
Sellers who are willing to ship internationally & have this sort of thing to sell - fairly pricey & limited market - will list on eBay sites in...
Thanks for the pix. I don't get it. I checked eBay US, UK & DE for listings under her seller name & got no current listings. Did find a couple...
I have no idea about the ceramics, but these are putti: [ATTACH]
I can't find this as either an active or a completed listing. Can you get a photo of the face of the cameo comparable to the one of the back? I...
The tiny feet were known as lotus feet.
These things are sold to women on the notion that they make them more attractive, when what they really do is incapacitate them. In some cases...
If the book Memoirs of a Geisha was accurate in this detail, the mangled feet with their broken bones sometimes stayed unhealed the woman's entire...
They've got that uranium glass look.
Chest doesn't seal, so nothing would stay sterile for long.
I have Walter Schurmann, Gemstones of the World, translated from the German, 1977. I have a couple of others, but they seem to draw heavily on...
Pre-Raphaelite was my immediate thought too, with a touch of tarot card & the Unicorn Tapestries. But Heaven help us, it looks like Ponytail Girl...
How would that work? Or do you put the metal bin in the chest after boiling, steaming, whatever? Underside of wooden lid is unprotected.
A very dear English friend I will probably never meet. She knows about Schmoll because I told her & she told me she planned to use the info in...
Agate is really a word for certain formations of chalcedony. It is not a separate mineral. My gem book says natural carnelian has a cloudy...
Separate names with a comma.
