Stop! My sides are starting to hurt. :kiss::kiss:
No, but they may have been using lab grown color change sapphires. Certainly there is a lot of 1940s Egyptian jewellery using them. I have a...
I would guess late 50s, 'guess' being the operative word.
With the sorts of things I most often buy & occasionally sell, cameos & intaglios, unless you have a professional photography set up & know how to...
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They are still a blue red, rather than a yellow red. Other beads/crystals used are glass. Most of the time you don't see modern pieces use a mix...
Yeah, ivory, the resin substitute. :(
Beautiful! When you get them cleaned up, will you show us? And can I put them on my Pinterest boards for ivory? I could see they were figures...
'Full size' always, please. [IMG]
I'm not bothered by swirls vs. layers; carnelian does not always occur as part of an agate. It is that pinkish, cranberry color I find...
Sniped by AJ, not the first, or last, time. Now I'm cracked up too. Help, emergency kyratisation team! My favorite bit too, although snout,...
Anywhere. Unless your photos are really misrepresenting it, it is not ivory. Not that it matters, but how do you know this? [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I don't know, but his left hand is on backwards.
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Turn of the 20th century, as kyratango has already surmised a particularly light section of helmet shell rather than the more...
I was going to speculate that maybe the bag had once been home to a cameo en habillé (one of those ones where the figure herself is wearing...
???!!! Was it lit? Did you find this somewhere as a suggested way to test for ivory? Genuine ivory is identifiable through visual examination;...
Still a bit sleepy & read it as They used to wear them in Paris. :)
If it were not so clearly not from there, I would have guessed Egyptian; their marks are punched in rectangles.
I didn't quite know what an etrog looks like either, so of course had a look. Shapes & sizes seem quite variable, & found this really...
Would think it's a bit shallow for a scoop, not to mention heavy, if it's plaster. Is it heavy for size? Genuine nautilus shells have been used...
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