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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mirana, post: 9579797, member: 79705&quot;]Congratulations on your haul! Lots of fun stuff in there.</p><p><br /></p><p>Black piece could be vulcanite. Give it a good rub and see if it smells like an eraser or rubber.</p><p><br /></p><p>Purple brooch has clawed collets on it so it could be older.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bracelet has a lobster clasp which is always a tell that a piece is not that old. The style is more recent as well as AJ pointed out.</p><p><br /></p><p>Agreed too many legs for an ant so certainly a spider. I loooove bug jewelry. This one is so sweet to put crawling up your lapel or across a collar.</p><p><br /></p><p>I love miniature portraits! She looks to be watercolor on ivory. You can just see the edge of her painting on the left side. A loupe is good to catch the Schreger lines and to see the edges of the substrate. Sometimes they would pad the backs of these with bits of cut up playing cards or business cards. She may be a commission.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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