Over here, some pharmacies collect and aggregate up equipment to go to developing countries.
I'll have a closer squint in the morning, but I don't think it started out as a blind date.
Symbolism is Celtic. If all the bits of the true cross were joined together, they'd cover half the Amazon rain forest. ;)
I'd be asking a primary teacher if they wanted them. You'd be amazed what schools do with stuff.
This is one bracelet I have. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
It's HUGE.
Yup, no reaction to UV.
That V indicates it was number five of a set, either six or eight chairs. It looks Edwardian.
Lovely bit of late 19th Bohemian glass.
Truth. She's fallen off the damn thing a few times: 16 hands. These days, she wears a sort of air jacket which inflates if you come off. Saves...
I need to fish out the one I bought in SC many years back and start a thread on it. Stone is a sapphire, and it has a rather good foldover slide...
Pulltab is an excellent term for them.
AJ already answered the fabric question.
I've got a few Newbridge bits, they're decent silver plate. That flat "jump ring" is a dead giveaway for modern non precious.
Those both look 30s to me. Some of those filigree bracelets are from Mexico, I have one.
Foreign generally appears on post WW1 German and post WW2 German/Japanese. Never French.
Or trinket pot, too.
That's a torc or torque. Ought to be pretty easy to find a plain one already made.
My bestie has the same issue. Knabstrupper mare and bling do not consort.
I've a small bear with salmon, carved jade. Bought him somewhere in BC. Kamloops? Anyhoo, mined in BC, carved in China.
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