The Aussies don't get the good random bits of European costume jewelry!:p
Yeppers! Costume stones, but Austro-Hungarian design for sure.
Or better yet, votre chocolatier! (as long as he comes bearing gifts)
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It's Greek-influenced, but it's more homage than imitation. Nice piece in its own right.
Probably salts.
That's a distinct improvement!
Certainly possible; salt wouldn't eat the shells. Certainly looks like it. I'm not used to seeing sulphides in jewelery, but do have a...
And I've seen similar cast in metal and made in the last decade. Apparently nothing ever really goes away entirely.
Looks like an Essex crystal or some such.
I'd cheerfully take one. Or two. Or 12. His glassware doesn't excite me, but those jewels... yes please.
Pip, Squeak and Wilfrid would get my immediate attention - who dumps Grandpa's medals? Then the Victorian mourning earrings; that stuff never...
That's where experience comes in. I start with a magnet and go from there if I can't just eyeball it. Then you get the idjuts I used to see at...
The piece is scratched on a testing stone. Acid doesn't go anywhere near the piece unless the whole thing is going into the melting pot if it's...
I'm not seeing any silver. The carafe looks like white metal, and even if it has marks to the contrary I'd have it tested.
Holy moly. Who doesn't crack a bottle of Jameson's???? (LOL) You have to wonder if the family even knew the stuff was there.
I'm going to guess the coin is going straight into the cabinets?
No one would use that on a piece of costume, you'd think. There's no telling what a Victorian jeweler would get up to, but I'd say odds on this...
I was about to call dibs on that, but you got in first. (LOL) The amber beads have a clasp that's given up the ghost. I'd be cheerfully...
It has a trombone clasp with the tube hinge. I can't see a mark either, but if it's old enough it might never have had one.
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