Good thought. Showed it, by e-mail, to a friend who deals in coins & engraved gems. Know he has some clientele with an interest in militaria....
I have extensive library resources available to me, so no doubt if I want to become an Olenin expert, I'll be able to lay my hands on it. Right...
Looks like the shoe they drop in Key West for New Year's. Is it Miss Bunny who comes down in it? (Too lazy to check.)
OK @Jivvy Here's the USB microscope at work. The last letters of President: [ATTACH] The ks & Nik of the second line; the enin of the third:...
That's why my first thought was that it would represent him as head of the Library. Could be that the Academy of Art commissioned a series of...
Think the cameo is likely to predate 1918 if on no other grounds than how long after his death would anyone have wanted a cameo portrait...
There is way more here about Olenin than I have time to read right now. He's one of the saints of library science:...
See how a lower case T is written in Italic. Somehow that entire post got by me. It happens when things are not visible all on one page. OK....
If I ask IM Translator to give me the Russian for Imperial Academy of Art, the word it uses for Art does not start with X, but it does translate...
Evidently the script is Italic: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cyrillic-italics-nonitalics.png
As I said, you had more faith in me than I did. I was waiting for Fig to come along & validate the transliteration. If it's not Bulgarian, I...
That makes more sense; engraver ran out of space. I read enough to gather that this character has more to do with how the preceding letter is...
Seems as though not. Could be the start of Imperial Academy, but X not consistent with 'Arts'. [see #888]
You're getting downright scary, you know that?! You had more faith in the job I made of it so far than I did myself. It is undoubtedly he, a...
Addendum: the bar replaces the encircling frame within which the main part originally swiveled.
He's just as good as we hoped - congratulations on an excellent acquisition. Polishing can make shell, if it is flat enough & color is right,...
Need the eyes of members who can read Cyrillic: @Nick Georgia @Nadia G @avant @Figtree3 @Caribou's House A new acquisition has writing on the...
Brilliant, as always.
Pretty big if it can hold 1/2 litre.
Hello, golddazzler. I have never seen anything at all creative done with a clasp, an extravagant touch, given that only the wearer gets to see...
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