Welcome, Lilly. Did the dog turn up anything else with it? Wondering why that spot was chosen for excavation. Davey has the advantage on the...
Horseshoe nails? Suppose they would be too long. I can't help but picture the horse with the painting in his stall, the way people have...
Cyrillic?
True vellum is a kind of fine parchment (etymologically related to 'veal') & I suppose you could say that makes it leather. I was thinking of one...
#2, Motor Coach Service Supervisor? http://antique-photos.com/en/unidatabase/third-reich/431-specialist-patches-of-reichsbahn.html
It seems the word 'vellum' has come to be used for 2 pretty different papers; I was thinking of the rougher, opaque variety:...
With all the cameos sitting all over the place, you could say I have eyes everywhere. Could it be a vellum-type paper?
I'm thinking it might be 1938 on the painting itself. The boats look very old fashioned for Paris in 1955/8.
He has been a popular subject for coins & engraved gems for as long as the Greeks have been telling stories & the Romans retelling them. I can't...
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Looks like it was gilt. Think it is quite likely to be silver, although possibly 800 rather than 925. From what remains, appears to be meant to...
But then you like to live dangerously. :joyful:
Herakles/Hercules https://cameotimes.com/index.php/profiles-1/mortals/hercules/hercules-alone
The beginning of wisdom. :)
Oh, thanks so much for remembering! No, I'm afraid she is sort of a pseudo-Hour. The gang of 12 have attributes that relate to time/time of day,...
I used to have a key chain with a large brass oval tag like this. Forget what it said, but was meant to look like it came from a ritzy hotel,...
The difference between the artisanal jewellers of a place like Naples and the sophisticated houses of Rome and other capital cities. Some Greek...
Very interesting and very nicely cut. Must have been quite avant garde in its time, which is early 20th century. The cutter was influenced by...
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CC has it. I'd say 50s/60s, only because you still saw lockets then. They fell out of favor.
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