Are A & B glass disks with applied metal accents or all glass, with metallic paint? Enlarging the earrings, C, they are pretty clearly glass,...
Maybe not, but waaay more than the rest of us could supply. :happy:
Try determining whether an intaglio is Roman or Georgian with only photos to go by. Not for the fainthearted. :happy:
The photos that were added after I made my remark give a better understanding of the construction. I probably should have edited out that post.
Ooh, @kyratango Just for you: [ATTACH] Not sure I would call them cameos, as seller does, but would certainly go well with all your...
Not useful for measuring then.
The way the drawers are joined gives me the impression they are meant to look like dovetail joints were used but were not really: [ATTACH]
Is the circumference of the little wheel-like bit an even amount in either English or metric units?
Think the unfinished look of the blunt end of the part that can come out indicates it was not meant to be seen, that the piece was not designed to...
He's pretty wide-ranging in his insults, isn't he? Although these days, can't blame him for taking a poke at the U.S. Probably wearing chaps & a...
Since we're re-examining this. If you hold the 2 bobs out to either side & then pull, does anything move, or start to budge, when you do it? It...
My first, non-expert, thought, is that it is not a vanity. Maybe a table for a front hall, a place to check your appearance before going out the...
Realize I may have come off as a bit miffed, but wasn't at all. I spend my days immersed in images of figures from the myths & tales of the West,...
Correction: 'should have been 'made by Danbiere.'
It's an odd pairing, but they are correct, the one with a crescent moon is Artemis/Diana; the other lady is a fellow Olympian, Demeter/Ceres. The...
Will see what the others say, but all look like steels to me. Think your idea that they used to be buttons is a good one. All from the same source?
Because they are that shape, but cerclé is still an applicable term.
The one on the right I have seen far more than any other inscription on souvenir-type scarab bottoms & cartouche pendants, most of them not...
Well, I was right; it just doesn't change the ID, helps confirm it. Looks like she's applying a bindi?
Hello, Jacqueline. Hopefully a member signed up with Invaluable will come along & be able to tell you some of the prices achieved, but this will...
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