It is stone, although a casual name for the type of helmet shell that produces a similar dark brown color is sardonyx shell.
They would never drill through a Pistrucci, even if it is Pistrucci fille.
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A hardstone cameo is almost always flat on the back & will feel glassy against your teeth. If this were shell, it would have to be helmet shell,...
Is she hardstone (pietra dura, agate)? She looks like it, but sometimes shell can do a good imitation. This is more modern than the ones I...
The cameo itself is a sardonyx, white on dark brown, that has been dyed a bit so that there is a black rim around the brown. The edges & back are...
I have only seen these from the front (Verdura lions paw will find others). Think the secret would be revealed from the back, just the way cameos...
This is like that illusion that is a hook nosed old lady in profile & a young woman looking away, wearing a ribbon around her neck. What's figure...
This also has Bassano hand written, not printed. https://auction.catawiki.com/kavels/19149573-bassano-marked-porcelain-vase [IMG]
It just seems always to be a bad idea. This one a bit less creepy than some others.
WARNING! DENTITION AHEAD. [IMG]
It photographs as the dullest of the lot. Diamond, white topaz, & CZ should all have more flash.
Do any of the stones respond to UV light? I thought up rolled paper for you, but works well. I have lots of rings that need new homes. When the...
[IMG] The one at the bottom is colorless, I think you said. Are you sure it's not a pale blue? Think we can rule out diamond*, & simple quartz...
Show us your frontlets! Preferably modeling them.
Unsold, with the low estimate of $150 At least several look the same, different arrangement. I think of Milor as a maker of high-end 'fashion'...
There are many pots of this general type, but yours is in a subclass that seems less common because of the pedestal base. The absence of a thumb...
Knew what you meant. The band is oval, not round, right? Oval bracelets don't roll as much as round ones. Would be comfortably loose on me but...
Hard to tell from out here. I have ring with blue, pink & yellow sapphires, so that's one possibility for at least some of them. Pink could be...
Definitely doesn't look like Schippnick: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/clown-fish-robert-schippnick.html
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