We could definitely use a pic of the bottom. Right now, I agree with resin.
If it is, I'd take it over any of the others.
Wondering if one or more bulbs inside are not burned out at present? But thanks for letting us have some idea of how it looks when lit. I don't...
I keep thinking OBB's has baby teeth embedded in it with gold drizzled over.
The way the rim of the lower section has been treated is very odd. Someone stabbed at it, seemingly with something fairly blunt, sometimes...
The word 'collective' is коллектив. The backwards R is a Y sound, as in yacht. I don't have the knowledge to know what word would have gone with...
Hello, Sam. Since netsuke are a Japanese art form, I would expect the language to be Japanese, even if the piece is a copy made in China. Your...
It's definitely nacre, not some artificial pearl simulant. The question is whether it is an actual single detached pearl, or been made to look...
Finding a suggestion, unconfirmed, that the mark indicates the collective where made.
Everything's better with pearls, IMO.
Good observation & good evidence that what Christie's sold was indeed wax & they were not bamboozled by one of these extremely good replicas....
This is confusing. I thought the family name was Munra. It is Munras.
Looks like a man's wedding band, although it would be odd to engrave just the groom's initials inside.
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I'm pretty confident it's stone. What I suspect about the metal is that the ring shank is low grade gold; the innermost bezel is some kind of...
A search for 'Henry Alken fox hunting' will get you going.
Henry Allen drew it. Sorry - Alken https://www.davidbrassrarebooks.com/pages/books/03351/henry-alken/fox-hunting
Somehow, I got taken past these posts when I opened this thread before, so only seeing now. Yes, what you circled is what I meant too. You have...
This, on the other hand, looks like conch shell [IMG] is described as Victorian Pink Stone Cameo with 9 kt solid Gold setting US $95.00 and is...
What's written just under the picture on the far left?
Separate names with a comma.