It was intended for company, and you did not talk on the phone or watch TV when you had company; it would have been considered quite rude.
Obverse : Draped Bust of Republic with phrighian cup and olive branch, facing right; "REPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE". Reverse : Armored and draped...
That was part of what I could picture: how you used to sit the phone on top of the phone directories, white & yellow. My mother did not feel that...
New girl, Flora, signed by Luigi Michelini, using a section of helmet shell taken from under a horn, which gives a high degree of curvature to the...
Hello, SoC. Afraid you've fallen in with a bunch of soft in the head about cats folks here. Think definitely meant to hold magazines, newspapers...
A Reader's Digest humorous anecdote I liked so much I have semi-remembered it lo, these many years, involves a senior British military officer at...
Metals aren't my 'thing', but yes, pewter can be quite soft & perhaps your piece has been silver plated? Hope someone who actually knows...
I love that they have not lost their stoppers - they never had any. Proud owner instructed to cover hole with tape!
Certainly has a Flower Fairy feel. I got nowhere with my ideas, but looking at pewter rather than silver yielded more results that at least had...
Think she is more allegorical, probably Spring. Fortuna & Abundatia often have a cornucopia as an attribute, although usually filled more with...
When did the Princess Royal start looking like her Aunt Margaret?
If I had that one I'd wear it daily. It's a famous piece. We think of Queen Victoria as popularizing cameo jewellery, but the whole Napoleonic...
She is a siren.
Thanks for adding that. My favorites are the octopi. Japan is a big market for modern Italian work. Maybe we could invent a word for the style:...
I feel the same way about antique tortoiseshell as I do about ivory: it cannot be undone now; we can honor the sacrifice by admiring & preserving...
And I am well rewarded. Love the tea chests too. My latest cameo acquisition is a Georgian ring. A gracious time, if you had the money.
These are just gorgeous! Thank you so much for sharing them with us all. :kiss:
I mean it's so green, it probably is dyed & may not even be jade. Could just as well be dyed chalcedony. You would expect a very valuable piece...
Thumbs down. Not well made, home crafts person quality, very green pendant probably not jade. Value here is in constituent components & not sure...
My first thought too is that although it works optically, its use is more like that of a pantograph, a way of projecting an image onto paper so it...
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