Found art. You just have to find a way to convince people that the back it has now is the picture it was meant to frame.
Carved agate? Lotus petal? Maybe it didn't start as an ashtray.
4 of them as a lot. There were 8 categories, 8 colors of plastic and 200 coins in the set, so this is a very small sampling. None of them are...
The "quadruple" in the mark means heavy silverplate, not sterling.
As I recall, someone mentioned that back then: right shape, wrong color. It was the rhino that came to mind at the mention of Noah's ark, but...
Another not-a-new-find: [ATTACH] Ivory bookmark 5 1/4" long. Don't know it this would count as NA or not, but I purchased it at the Grenfell...
I'd say you're in with a chance, the way they're mounted. Whoever did that must have thought they're the real deal.
Reminiscent of Cycladic sculpture....
If it's resin, I would expect a meniscus, a rounding at the edges of the colored bits. [ATTACH] Could be concave or convex.
The resin jewelry seems to consistently use cast framework to hold the colors. It results in a regularity in the lines that I am not seeing here....
Yes. I've done it. Might be worth checking online to see if there are stained glass jewelry patterns, or even kits, out there. It's not a bad...
I think the ark is harder to find than the figures and relatively pricey for Blue Mountain. I only recall having one Noah's ark figurine: a...
I see a lot of solder on OP's brooch, and a lot of irregularity in the framework. I don't think its resin.
I don't think that's plique a jour. Looks more to me like stained glass assembled using copper foil.
Couldn't you contact NASA and ask them directly? I doubt they'd help with the price, but they might have something to say about the authenticity....
I've had few pieces of so called "French Ivory", which I believe is a type of celluloid, but the lines are both very distinct and very regular....
Curious as to where you found this.
You might try Christian Nonne of Volkstedt. Rontgen does not show this mark, but a Nonne mark shown shares some of the design elements.
Picture of the item might help. Perth could be the pattern name.
I didn't bother looking it up. Just took a guess that the Japanese zodiac would be much the same. Could be completely wrong.
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