And, PS: Is one end of the perforation larger than the other?
Am guessing the first ones are faceted, banded, carnelian likely from the Idar-Oberstein area of Germany OR same, same, same from India. How many...
Beautiful piece; the pin back tells me pre-1925. No marks, eh? Shazaam!
Yes; hand-faceted. Doesn't mean that literally; in Bohemia (pre-Czech government), glass bead laborers sat on a hard stool in front of a...
Definitely not Scandinavian; more African with the hand tooled eyes and the snakes. Uncommon, for sure, and very cool.
Agreed; I believe they're Czech. However, there are good Czech and old, hand polished Czech. Take a jeweler's loupe 15x, look at the...
Agreed. We started using the square silver or gold wire in the late 1970s.
Thanks so much! I love everyone's sense of humor in these posts. Not a lot of that around, it seems, so it's refreshing and encouraging. Be...
I'm learning.
Just posted another. Anita Stewart and an unnaed actor in "The Yellow Typhoon," 1920, a Louis B. Mayer film. He apparently wants a favor for a...
The Yellow Typhoon by Kathy Anderson posted Aug 26, 2019 at 3:20 PM
Such a sweet face! How did you do that?
I'll keep my eyes open. Try searching with these words: "taxco silver green necklace", "taxco coffee bean green necklace", "mexico silver green...
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And is it true they should occasionally soak in distilled water?
Agreed; no prongs.
And the crossed implements under the piece are Dorjes. Beautiful little buddha!
Sorry to ask since this thread isn't about photos, per se, but can you tell me what to do to shrink a photo on Windows 10? Don't have an iPhone.
Agreed; the Balinese moon faces later followed by others are Thai.
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