I'm virtually certain it is shell. This is the back: [ATTACH] Have seen a number of shell pieces with those striations; never on stone. The...
I keep seeing the first name as Edith.
He's definitely wearable, so perhaps I'll take him on occasional outings. I have in inquiry in to the auctioneer of this 'Georgian hardstone'...
If it weren't for the 18K findings, lightweight & translucent would add up to plastic for me.
A little over a year ago I made this post: CAMEOS: Show & Tell or Ask & Answer Must seem perverse to anyone who only likes pretty lady cameos,...
Since they were one of the main products of the Tassie workshops, very adjacent indeed. I have imagined that the wax ones were sometimes retained...
If he has kept the number the area code would be 212.
After a devout & well meaning neighbor pressed me into going to mass with her, was very surprised on the way out that a) the church had a gift...
I'm pretty sure I've seen a name for this figure, but nothing is coming up from my brain or from Google. I have one somewhere - resin if I...
Yes, cameo & mount are not contemporaneous. The gems used to illustrate the talk are mainly from this 2019 auction of gems from the Sangiorgi...
1st Dibs seller took/made an offer, so necklace did not sell for $7,000, but probably for what was still a hefty chunk of change.
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FF could be Furniture Factory. AM...?
Think that should be read as Charing Cross (Station?)
I think hinge & clasp are misleading replacements. To the extent I've ever seen any evidence, these brooches with a convex back are maybe first...
Was working from memory - still am - & was a bit rushed this AM. 'Pipe stone' may not be what I was trying to remember, it may have been 'pipe...
Frame does look like tortoise to me. Don't think there would have been good simulants when this was made. Cameo looks like lava on the face of...
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266432715129 https://www.ebay.com/itm/305275959432 https://www.ebay.com/itm/394412551312...
Looks like Incolay. Can we see interior & bottom?
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