I haven't been able to find anything about who or what (person, kiln, place) Kinko-do is though.
I found your kutani mark on gbouvier.com: Kinko-do. It won't let me do a direct link to the mark, but if you go here, you can click on Kinko-do...
Love the crown pins, Calico!
I just looked at it again under a loupe and those lines are just scratch marks, not a maker's mark. :)
Don't opals usually have more of a speckled or mottled appearance? I had found an iridescent moonstone charm yesterday that had the same...
It appears to me to be gold filled. My 10k acid is very old to try testing it, but it has that sheen of something better than plain old metal....
Though I found a lot of sites asserting that it's Saint Eustace, the Jagermeister site says that it's actually Saint Hubertus. This snip is from...
Though I haven't found another one exactly like it, it seems most likely jagermeister especially now that we know what it's used for. I actually...
Thanks Cheryl!
Looks like the logo, but I haven't found anything similar. My first thought was it looks like a posy holder pin, but it has a hole in the bottom....
I think this is a moonstone, but just wanted to doublecheck. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I don't think it looks too old either. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't marcasite usually set in prongs on older items? These...
Ditto here! I actually bought a $10 bag of jewelry at the Salvation Army that I knew was going to be junk because I was just hoping and praying...
Would a jewelry maker put sterling silver backs on plastic earrings? I'm not saying they're POL, but I was just wondering if they're glass...
Interesting thoughts! The generic "office of the year" logo hadn't occurred to me. Guess I'll just throw it in a lot with some other pins....
Thank you Susan, that gives me another search term I can use to look for it!
Interesting thought on the possibility of N R. Gives me something else to try at least. As for the blemish, I don't see evidence of there...
It's distinctive enough that I'd thought it would be a slam dunk, but no luck finding it. There's metropolitan insurance and metropolitan real...
Though I've never seen any beads quite like yours, that rainbow-y sheen reminds of what you see on dichroic glass beads.
Here's another one, with an R instead of a W, but same shape shield and lower letter (S or 5). No answers were given to this person's inquiry...
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