Others will be along to help, just wanted to say, the chair cover looks like needlepoint, embroidery is something else all together :)
It's not ormolu. True ormolu is gilded by a process whereby powdered gold is mixed with mercury, and the resulting paste is brushed onto the cast...
Lucille, you are in the USA, right? I have a gem tester, if you want to mail it to me I can test the stones for you. I have done this many times...
YES!!! Mr Nate scores again :) Thanks for the game :kiss:
The only way to be sure is to have them tested :)
EPNS = electroplated nickel silver, silver plate just in case you didn't know :)
#1 because I think it's pretty :)
Or someone with a gem tester :)
Davey, did you test the purse for Bakelite? Usually those plastic chains are celluloid, not Bakelite. Either way it's a beauty and a nice haul!
Not etched, the design is cut. Yes, ruby stained. Flashed is a layer of glass, this is not flashed. Sweet Lucille, I would have picked it up...
I did an ebay search for "silver puffy hearts" and got 5,000 hits :woot:
Love it!!!!!!!
Yea, it looks like cloth embedded in the glass.
She is a sweetie! I think late 1800s, very early 1900s based on the hinge and calsp. She look a little bit worn down but not too bad. I don't...
Please always show the back when asking for help :)
Looks like it may be labradorite?
A lot of costume makers switched to silver during WWII, does the patent date to that time?
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As you think, they both look like studio pottery, notoriously hard to ID :(
Agree, definitely not Mucha.
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