First beads are basically microcrystalline quartz (chalcedony), carnelian/cornelian in color, some cut from a banded agate formation. I agree...
The teardrop pendant looks like lavender jade.
The signature on the other PW is more compressed than this one & hard to read if you do not already recognize it. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I have 2 paperweights (think I must have given away a third paperweight that was similar to one of the others) & a vase, all bought directly from...
VPAG, no?
After seeing her in the Finds thread, I had my fingers crossed she would turn out to be signed. Maybe @Jivvy can discern something legible amidst...
I expect murder has been done for some of them though.
Unless there's a Muse of Wine & Roses, she's not styled properly for any of the canonical 9. She does have a 'gather ye rosebuds while ye may'...
It looks like it was labeled for an exhibition where some work was also for sale. I'm seeing a price of maybe 4 shillings? The field for pounds...
Very close to what you had before. Chrysoprase is in the chalcedony family of microcrystalline quartz, so still looks right for glass. She's...
A very good cameo. Check the back for a signature - you never know. :)
When it comes to the Cs, cut, color, clarity, carats, a natural stone that scores high on those last 3 is a much greater rarity than one grown in...
Sorry for diverting your thread. When I'm having difficulty with the space-time continuum I tend to resort to humor. It would not surprise me if...
Seller of this one thought some kind of 'production code'. Probably a WAG....
People seem to be reading it as VSTAG, but not clear what that is supposed to mean either. My Eickholt pieces from the 1980s do not have this...
This one: Another one that has appeared in these pages before is sort of what it would have looked like if Dr. Seuss had cut cameos: [ATTACH]...
'Mined' beats lab grown every time. Unless you're talking industrial diamonds?
The crash in the night will be a lot less funny! :cat::cat::nailbiting:
This one is supposed to be Kolorkraft & is more vivid: [IMG] While this is more muted: [IMG] The 'cabinet vase' shape is the one I'm seeming...
[IMG] This is on Pinterest as #091.
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