I have a beautiful intaglio I bought thinking it was glass because the setting, while pretty, was such blackened base metal. Intaglio turned out...
Not impossible the fabric is itself a memento, but have seen enough cameos with otherwise empty compartments that have a bit of coarsely woven...
He's exquisite, isn't he? Does not surprise me he is so large. Plenty of conch shell cameos fall within the size range of a typical helmet shell...
Bluumz has already posted the link for my more complete explanation. To summarize here, although it is called Byne's Disease, it is an oxidative...
She's gorgeous, & what a steal. This figure is usually seen as Ariadne: http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/D4913B30-F3E7-4BBE-B257-7722293460FD...
Oh good. That's settled. Thought you were going to bed?
Ashley, why have you made 2 different threads for this?
Think you've got your Indians jumbled up. No reason to think this doesn't mean exactly what it says. SI may be an incomplete stamping of SILVER.
Better still. Enjoy. :)
https://www.navycs.com/navy-jobs/gunners-mate.html Sort of the shape, but not really. Not seeing anything you could really call close. Doesn't...
They're outstanding in their field. Leave them there. :D
Thanks for refocusing my eyes. Once again it turns out that something wasn't making sense because some assumption I was making was wrong. We're...
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When I was first working out Egyptian hallmarks, I took my newly acquired pair of earrings to my friendly Yemeni neighborhood convenience store...
It is unquestionably the Russian coat of arms. That question is settled. Since your mother had it from her mother & it was found again in a...
OK, does that side of your family come from Russia? If it were gold & made in Imperial Russia, it would be marked. In the unlikely case it were...
I asked how she came to have it, not how you got it. Maybe the question is where did the jewelry boxes come from? Handed down in family or...
How did it come into her possession?
Right now we're thrashing out whether it is a military medal, as represented, or some item of personal adornment that has the Russian coat of arms...
If that is indeed the bill of sale for this locket, I took Rd Gold to be rolled gold.
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