Interesting, also called love knots or Algerian love knots. Wondering whether the inspiration would have been something like stems, reeds or...
Thank you once again. The cameo itself I think is Georgian. Only the pearls around it may be from the original setting. The garnet extravaganza...
Thanks for looking into it from over there. Amazed there is just nothing on the company or inventor of the material(s) used. CW not only had the...
Sounds like the brand name of a pharmaceutical. Knew I had seen V. before, but didn't know who it was. Not mine, from my 'reference library':...
Welcome buckle1. More precisely, faux means 'false' in French, as in faux pearls or faux ivory, a euphemism for fake. In what context did you...
I meant the use of what are like segments of tubing to create the shape, not the shape they are arranged in. This is an example of the sort of...
Guessing toasts and/or quotations relating to wine & the pleasures of drinking.
I had to specify 'butella flask' or Google was absolutely convinced I really meant Nutella, even though have only looked at it in the supermarket,...
Need to get hold of kids coming up now who are acutely aware of the need to reduce consumption to save the planet but who will still need...
My first thought was that it was going to be these well known words: Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, Ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi...
A cameo you posted about on this thread? Or a blast from the past? They do like to play hide & seek. Mine are more a horde than a hoard. :happy:
How very Italian, sort of a soft mugging. The one time I was mugged, here in the US, got slugged in the jaw a couple of times. Ironically, my...
Lucky you didn't die for the last time then! Naples is supposed to be not for the timid.
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Ah, yes, but what? When he arrives will clean him up, hopefully get a better portrait, & put him on the cameo show & tell thread. Had to buy all...
Here's what I think I see & what IM Translator gives me in return: az a nehez menui that's the wrong way, ma siadui but [so?] be it, az a nehez...
Guessing you don't wear brooches all that often. :happy: Since my 'thing' is cameos, brooches that come my way have a definite right way up. It...
Examples of brooches & how worn.
@kyratango Do you know anything about the Paris firm T. P. Danbiere? Looks like they may be the source of a couple of frequently seen artificial...
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