New pix give a whole new picture. Not that I'm any wiser. Cork looks in extremely good shape. Is the little shaft of the brush some kind of...
Must be even more vigilant then.:happy:
Charlotte my immediate thought too.
I don't know, but being 4-armed, must be forewarned! :joyful:
The ring had something like 60+ watchers. No doubt she assumed that meant it was a rare & fabulous piece someone was sure to buy, instead of that...
It does teach you what a really good one looks like & gives you a standard by which to evaluate others. :happy:
I did see this & at first thought they were centaurs. (My newly altered eyesight is leading to all kinds of optical illusions & misreadings of...
Not off the top of my head & the edge of my eyesight. She does mention in the description that it is signed, but so faintly she can't even guess....
That's it exactly. I have seen them mistake shell for stone &, shockingly, stone for shell. A few years ago one poor woman was trying to sell a...
It can't possibly be. Like the Lord's prayer on a grain of rice. They meant mm. I just brought it in here as the amusing opposite of carefully...
Evelyb30 said it for me. They might find someone who would pay that much, but first that person has to find it. Would love to know who tagged it...
Hot diggity!
Fashion house names can survive the death of the founder.
You don't even need to put in 'gold lacquer', Shen Shao An Foochow seems to be synonymous.
The model is to wear mink gloves, hair in 'black knots' pendant earrings. The edge of the bodice decorated with little tubules of leather.
This actually looks as though someone bought a long strand from a bead store/supplier, then just attached an inexpensive clasp by crimping the...
I got a perfunctory 'thank you' from them. Just looked at the listing again to see if it had been changed. Nope, but noticed this time that...
It's not Jean Patou? Edit: See Debora was already on it. :happy:
Both look home handicrafts to me. They do better work in Asia.
Clueless, really, but get a 50s feel. Think there were lamp bases that looked something like the stoneware part, with the hole in the middle.
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