It does look like a cocktail shaker to me, and it is the right size. I'd gladly trade my silver one for a (gin) martini from that...
I personally can't see feet on this with the "mopboard" style molding along the bottom edge...................I could be wrong, but stylistically...
I though for a female the minute I saw them - then remembered some of the ones I inherited and changed my mind.....................
nice piece - is that bronze veining in the stone?
you know, i really should have qualified my statement above and said that ice buckets USUALLY have a lid.....................but the ones that do...
They look more like coffee than tea cups (narrower at the top, tea cups were traditionally wider to get the bouquet) - you don't give a size, but...
Welcome! It just happens you are the second new member to join recently that is "using" antiques as a teaching tool...............I hope it does...
No marks, I assume (since you are so good a ferreting them out!), but it reminds me of some pieces that I handled made by a gentleman named...
Talk about going on a diet.....................
Well, Welcome Wayne! Please! Bring your expertise and sense of humor and we will share ours! I am constantly amazed at the number of users,...
The only thing I know about glass is that it usually breaks when I handle it, and I have a distinct aversion to the color blue, BUT! I am in LUST...
I have no idea............and no interest, other than what I am being paid for!:yawn::yawn:
The second reminds me of the stuff Chan Luu is exporting from Vietnam, but I could be way off.
the metallic beads look like pyrite - but I only say that because I am in the midst of writing descriptions for pyrite jewellery for a...
All I know is that it ISN'T Baccarat........I checked for that! I've had it for years and was under the impression that it was nothing special,...
He can cancel your bid and take it down - and the only "penalty" he will have to pay is the final value fee on your 99 cent bid, IF he has already...
Not familiar with Dawkins, and this piece in not inline with Ripka or Bixby to my thinking, but yeah, all of them have "inspired" other, less...
That is from the Cable Classics Collection - for which Yurman is best known - but he does produce a myriad of other designs. I think the knock off...
And I envy that - my photos are terrible, but that is because I can't SEE the items being photographed, so I just point the camera in that...
Yeah - it looks like a Yurman knock off, and probably made in Bali. Not only is the workmanship under par, but it would have also had a 18k mark...
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