Let's Talk About Pottery & Collectables
Collectables => Jewellery => Topic started by: deco.queen on March 11, 2009, 08:23:35 PM
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I see we have more in common than glass! I have collected jewelry since I was a child and in college got nicknamed Ringo because I always had on at least 5 rings. ;D
These 2 pins are porcelain, china, 1 15/16" tall. I think they came from the grandmother that was German, English. My other grandmother was Danish, Irish. Yes, like our new president I'm a mutt. The one guy is sowing seeds, I guess and the other a blacksmith? I'm just wondering which place they might of come from...I've been thinking Germany.
The other picture is other pieces I inherited. No fancy jewels handed down....darn!
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What interesting brooches, I've never seen any like them before. No marks anywhere I take it Janice?
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No, no marks at all.
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Forget 'fancy' jewels, those pins are gorgeous. I'd date them at early 18thC and most probably German. They look to me like a farming couple, he with a 'corn-sling' and she dressed for slaughter, possibly of a pig, with protective leather apron and heavy mallet over the shoulder. I don't know where I'd stop bidding for a pair like these, but a divorce could be on the cards! I wish I could see them 'in the flesh' so I could be sure.
The silver jewellery is possibly Danish but could also be French (the purse especially has a French look), but the necklaces have a native North American look to them. Is there a chance that the yellow beads are amber, and the other necklace bone?
And if we're talking 'Mutts'; I'm 1/2 English, 1/4 Canadian, 1/8 German and 1/8 Libyan; a true mongrel if ever one existed (and I still can't quite work out what went where!).
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Neat pins. :clap: i never have seen the man/women like that either. they look old to me too.
yeah, was wondering if that was amber too.
...and Canadian here, with European roots (Hungarian)... ;D
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Oops, forgot to say that the beads on the left are made of rolled wallpaper and my grandmother made them. The amber color necklace is glass, I do have some real amber. The little purse does have a mark, boy is it tiny! There is an arrow head mark with what looks like a circle with an upside down Y coming out of it. I don't know if I can get a better picture but I'll try. Glad you like the little people! I always thought they were neat.
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Rolled wallpaper? Your Grandmother was a genius :clap:
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I thought the wallpaper beads were kind of common, I've seen them before. I did get a better picture of the mark on the sterling and here is a close up of the beads.
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That's something I've never seen before, very cleverly done. I've seen lots of papier mache beads but never rolled wallpaper. Did your Granddad mind the bare strips on the walls? ;D
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I just bought a new beading magazine and there is an article on rolled paper beads in that.
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They're great fun to make, and quite easy. They're just held together with a couple of minute spots of glue, and they look nice varnished.