It is a cast iron bowl filled with pitch,the best I have used came from northern India.I no longer have a contact for India so the next best thing...
No clamps,it would have been held in a pitch bowl for the engraving. [ATTACH]
The lines in the bottom circle is "shadowing" lines also to the left of her nose.Very odd they would only be in 2 locations on the whole piece...
@Roshan https://www.antiquers.com/threads/registration-confirmation.25219/
It is only one stone not 3.
Mexican Onyx is a "trade name" for the mineral travertine,Onyx is chalcedony/agate. Trade /misleading names of gemstones...
There are thousands of examples of travertine,travertine is the mineral which the trade name Mexican Onyx is used....
The only thing that can be said about the stones is they are green without testing. Most of this type of jewelry is dyed travertine/Mexican onyx...
The stones are faceted single cut "white/clear" whatever stones.
Your link the name was done with an electric engraving machine by hand,the OP's piece the name was stamped.
Hot Springs Arkansas souvenir.
Did you try a magnet ,it looks like plated steel and probably can't be restored without a lot of work and luck.
It would be easier if the photo was turned 90 degrees to the left.There have been a number of marks attributed to Hester Bateman and may or maybe...
Being dark green it could be tourmaline,but impossible to tell from a photo. See link https://www.mineralminers.com/html/tgrgems.stm
The pink stone looks like fiber optic,not sure about the other stone as there are a number of stones which can have a cats eye effect.Just a guess...
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It was probably carved in China,but hard to say where in the world the jasper came from.
It's hard to tell what it is from the photos,it could be a type of jasper. There also appears to be bubbles in a number of locations,but those may...
Longer stem not required....
The beads are inexpensive today,most are probably made in China....
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