Thank you. She makes me smile every time I look at her. And she just sucks up the UV rays and keeps smiling herself.
Stylistically very different. My girl is highly stylized (also a slippery critter to photograph, apologies for poor photos). She is one of two...
Thanks, digger. It does not budge off of green under any other type of light. You have to interrogate it with the UV to surprise its secret. If...
I did notice that the glue holding together a long, slender quartz crystal that had shattered became blazingly evident. Think it is also used to...
Décoré à la main = hand decorated
What a spectacular find that is! Thanks for sharing. Given that in the nearby hall is a painting of Priapus weighing his phallus, you have to...
Got one unpleasant surprise. When I lost one of four small pink sapphires in a ring, I paid a fair amount to have it replaced. Whatever it is,...
I don't have much amber, but what I did look at, no matter how it looks under ordinary conditions, all looked milky under the UV light.
Not sure if it answers or raises more. It does raise the possibility that the stone is in fact stone and not glass after all. And the happier...
After reading in various Antiquers threads about the usefulness of UV light in determining the nature of some materials, when I spotted little UV...
Too funny. Not just the JW mark, one from 1899: http://www.silvercollection.it/englishsilvermarksXJWWW.html
Thank you. I do not have too many cameos that are not set as jewellery or intended to be. This may well be my favorite of these decorative...
Just as an artistic reference point, this early 16th century engraving is after Albrecht Durer: [IMG]...
I should add that the cameo itself does not look like it is from 1924, but a cameo and its mount do not have to be contemporaneous, and there...
Think it was sold as 1924, maker unspecified. Thank you both & to anyone else who took a look. My mother was fond of a different saying, but, to...
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Wondered if next word could be ENGLAND. [ATTACH]
First part gestalts as Wedgwood for me. Did they ever make this sort of thing?
The marks on this small silver box are pretty clear, but I'm having trouble coming to a firm conclusion about date and maker. OK, here goes....
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