My hypothesis is that the middle line is the 'veu' from 'graveur', written with inconsistent pressure, but we will have to wait. How are you...
@bluumz Did you check your convos before you did all this work? Great demonstration of what a quagmire trying to pin down IDs can be.
Actually, it's there, the lotus blossom in the middle of the octagonal piece is like the national mark for silver, just larger. It would usually...
My one thought about it is that it's one of those Everyone is Irish on St. Patrick's Day kinds of things.
Mastic is the word I was searching for, although surprised to see it is now considered something medicinal, not just a kind of adhesive.
Are they litter mates? My desktop cat came to live with me a couple of years ago as an adult cat coming into a house with another cat about the...
Definitely can't be anything that dries quickly. @Hollyblue is our expert on jewellery making techniques, although this may be outside her realm.
I've had the experience more than once that the sweetest, most loving cat in the household turned out to be a mean drunk, warning off all who...
My writing got more formal sounding when my 2 (1 a different one) removed & hid my apostrophe key, which I have still to find, telling you more...
Great to see representative examples all together. And love your new avatar. ;)
Ooooh!
Back to topic. That she appears in jewellery from so many different makers, have to think the glass is made by one maker & sold for use by...
I work at a little vintage writing desk, the kind that can close up & the writing surface slides in & out, so not very much surface area. I use a...
It looks like a nice, solid, well-made piece. It is marked as (at least) 800 silver. It lacks the Egyptian national mark for silver, which is...
OP is speculating that's the remains of human hair & that it was originally this sort of thing:...
Nice of them to put it in English.
Worst case of Byne's Disease I have ever seen: [ATTACH]
Looking at the first photo some more, I think one whole segment has been lost, one of the smallest beads & its caps that should be just before the...
Well now I've finished it. :smuggrin:
I think the clasp is a replacement but that the rest is as it was originally made. I may be misreading it, but wire looks like a heavier gauge...
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