Yes, good thought, although I see so many more cameos than strands of helmet shell beads, they can't have been using all the leftovers that way.
Maybe they were using the brand name as a generic for watercolor paper, the way we use Kleenex as a common noun for 'facial tissue'. They did not...
Looking again, think I figured it out: it is the whole contraption that moves forward/back or side to side, no?
Is the match for this screw lost or is the only one from the beginning? What is it holding/what is allowed to move if it is loosened? Edit: Duh....
On the Italian train of thought, aventurine feldspar was first identified & named in Italy. Think I read somewhere that it was given the name...
You raise an interesting question: what did cameo workshops do with the remains of all the shells they used? Did they find a use for them?...
Wrong growth pattern. Although it can be the color of the stone in the pendant, shell is very orderly & does not have flecks. Not as red, but...
Motion is hard to put into words. I can't picture what this means. The dark colored upper piece moves to & from where? In what direction...
See above.
Purpose does seem like it is meant to hold something securely, but still repositionable. Are both holes the same size & shape? Why would this...
Ignore me - brain static. Can still check for ER/EA. Is there a tiny F above that? https://www.925-1000.com/Fitalian_marks_01.html
Malloy? There was at least one: http://www.carbondaleclay.org/pegmalloy/
Does the piece at the top of this assembly move/do anything? [ATTACH]
Is it possible to change the angle of the upright piece where the rings move?
If there were only 10, that makes it special. He's an esteemed painter. It was not clear to me that Alonso was one of the paintings in this...
He seems to have signed this one for someone named Ethel. I can't make out the Spanish after, other than the 'amente' at the end. Maybe...
According to site, this is 1960 - 75: [ATTACH] And this is post-Soviet 1990s (text says it is blue): [ATTACH] None of their marks has a date...
Are you sure it's EA & not maybe EN? I'm getting an Italian feel from it.
All pottery. I know nothing, just making observations. The impressed decoration below the rim seems distinctive. Very simple technique. The...
Hello, Ian. That's what we do: ask when we need to; answer when we can.
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