Sort of looks like a hippocamp (sea horse) but that brilliant observation got me nowhere in searching.
Didn't read all of this, but the beaver mark on the Ontario spoon. Edit: Oops. Didn't put in link....
One way to get a feel for this is to do an eBay search of sold listings for ones that are similar & see what they fetched.
Autocat? :joyful:
Ah, yes, the naming whims of mothers. I have some of that in the middle too, which shall remain nameless. Maybe try to think of her as a heroine...
I rewrote my message when realized it's not a spider, but was going to make the same observation & that there's no reason to assume the bird & bug...
Definitely a watch fob. Too few legs to be a spider & spiders don't have antennae. This is a bug escaping a web, I think. 'You can't catch me.'...
D'Arc? Just kidding. Is it the French Jeanne or in a different language?
Here's a stick pin with his Joan of Arc medal. Edit: And V's cousin Sigurd.
FIX is the indicator of the metal. RL seller says, vaguely: also came in French Fix, a gold filled material. This is where we need kyratango,...
Love these pipe versions.
Or later, with a single peony head floating in it.
This Ruby Lane seller seems to know all about it.
This must be Fix the Gaul. :joyful:
Can you wring any more out of this? I couldn't clear it up any better. [ATTACH]
The back, with the crowing cock & 'Gallia' looks like a French medal of some sort. Still looking it over, that's first observation. Edit:...
Think I like the hyacinth color. And that's all she thought. :happy:
Thinking from the look of some of them that they were made using the coil method, that some have been smoothed out more than others. The bottom...
My situation is different, but have certainly found that generosity with information has never hurt me. Of course, I'm mainly generous concerning...
What were these used for? The elixir of life? Olive oil? The first of the older ones you've shown us also seems to have a slight bend in the...
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