Here's the same sort of thing, with some hoity-toity provenance.
I think most of it's an illusion. What does the pin allude to?
Oh, that's high-60s for sure. Harbor Island Spa may have also been a shopping mall, something that way. Definitely not spa wear.
Looks like the twin towers of the World Trade Center in the background haze. New York Harbor? View from Brooklyn? Unless it is Q. Lorraine, not...
Think I have seen rings that were like this or similar that were meant to be worn at the end of the finger like a big, long, pointy fingernail.
For some reason when I looked on line for old Red cross pins given as a token to blood donors I saw almost none with the words I Gave, but...
The cameo I put on evelyb30's thread asking about the mark & stone on a silver ring is Demeter huffing off in her serpent-drawn chariot after...
F&B Co?
I don't think it's awful. Such things are elements in many an Italian fountain. Suspect Doris painted it. :happy:
Blood donor pin? Edit: I'm not so much asking as voting for this choice.
I think if they were really antique the putti wouldn't be wearing pareos. Might be a bowdlerized knockoff of ones that were genuinely old.
Do I detect incisive wit at work here?
The wings add another figure to the mix. I showed an ancient depiction of her in the prie dieu thread. Here's how she came to be shown later on:...
Maybe Doris is the name of the dolphin.
I'm totally with evelyb30, don't think there can be any doubt.
To be precise about it, the initials are embroidered individually on little pre-made patches & then the patches are sewn into the lining this way....
Machine made. Was thinking 60s - far out, man - but in looking at hinge & clasp, think a little earlier & go with AJ. Has a 50s feel to me.
On the thread about the baffling prie dieu, q.v., 2 suggestions for the decoration came up: the Green Man & the North Wind. It also looks like...
And real fur. Fakes were not very sophisticated then. Also, you didn't get your initials sewn in to fake fur; it was routine with real pieces.
So glad you jumped in, was thinking of tagging you. I did the Q&D kind of research by Googling for images of prie dieux by countries, centuries &...
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