We call them clips, or slides very occasionally bars here.
My only quibble with that is that it wasn’t a Thing in the U.K. We’ve never really gone in for that whole wearing something or displaying...
I think earlier, Edwardian and a memento mori. Lovely.
You know me far too well!
I’ve some similar earrings, which my Pa bought me as a birthday gift some time in the seventies. It was the Victorian revival counterpoint to all...
I’ve a print used on Star Trek the Next Generation as a set prop. And some bits of the bridge carpet. I had the bottom of c3po once.
I’m constantly boggled at what people junk. She’s lovely.
I could see some glow, hence my comment about reconstituted. It does look as though there’s some amber in the mix.
Barrette will work in the USA, but it’s not a British or European term.
Seventies Victorian revival based on a watch fob design.
My first thought was Coalport with that green.
I’d think the wallpaper is mid nineteenth. Might be slightly earlier. Printed then hand coloured.
Agreed, they were certainly from a stand.
That’s good old wallpaper on the back.
How on earth did that end up in the USA?
How very odd. Have a google on mahogany folding cake stand as a term, you’ll see loads of British ones of identical form. Sans carving though....
Composite reconstituted amber, I’d say.
Hah, that’s exactly what I had in mind. We did a lot of this Celtic and pseudo Celtic imagery in the late nineteenth and early twentieth, that...
Ah, but we have proper Mothering Sunday, and that’s the 10th of March this year.
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