I see no way to hold this with one hand while turning the crank with the other without interfering with the winding operation. It was made to sit...
I see no reason to assume that bit of string there now ever had anything to do with the functioning of the piece; could have once held a tag at...
Well, they're the signatures of the professors in all the major fields, including Syphilology, attesting to the new doctor's qualifications....
Think we would also like to see them cleaned up & photographed on a white background. I don't know what colors behind are doing to colors...
Pretty much, I'd say. :)
The distinction does not seem to be a well-defined one. According to this sort of Moonstone for Dummies page from the GIA...
1917. Celia must have been one of the last doctors graduated while Chicago School of Medicine was still part of Valparaiso.
No reason to think they are fakes & very few women were admitted to medical school at that time, so think they may be good sellers indeed....
That is the question. :) @Torkel Oftedal don't get your hopes up!
My impression is that a lot of what goes around the upper edge is decoration of alternating flower shapes & strokes that resemble letters but are...
I did wonder whether the smallest dots, like those on the stem, might be molded into the piece & then coated.
Do any of the characters look like this? Jerusalem as written in Hebrew. יְרוּשָׁלַיִם
Gotta watch out for those fatted calfs!
Since the R is in the center, it probably ... I was being distracted while trying to write this post, so got delayed, but was just just about to...
R F & maybe W, not sure whether that's a letter or ornamentation.
Maybe because slaughtering of animals destined for the butcher is not a religious act, just following religious strictures.
I'm speaking strictly without checking if I'm right, but think kosher slaughter of an animal for food purposes requires that it be bled out. What...
That's interesting - thanks for telling us. :)
The Copts are Christians & images on pot are Hebrew Bible only. Was your aunt the sort of person who would have made a trip to 'the Holy Land'?
Speaking of Hebrew translation issues: http://jbqnew.jewishbible.org/jbq-past-issues/2017/453/nehoshet-copper-bronze-brass-plausible-tanakh/
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