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Art Nouveau Antique Russian Gold Mounted Amazonite Box By Bolin
Exhibited: Moscow Kremlin, 2001 Published: this particular box is illustrated in W.A. BOLIN COURT JEWELLER, page 187, Nr. 151. Provenance: Ex-private collection Sweden, Ex-private collection USA. This superb gold mounted amazonite small box by the firm of Bolin, jeweler of the Tsarist Court, was made in Moscow between 1899 and 1908. The body is carved from a single piece of amazonite and applied with stylized finely chased gold trees in Art Nouveau taste. The gold trees are set with…
I've Been Playing With My Glass...
Well as you can see I've been playing with the Glass, that I received this morning from Mary & Ed. I've done a dry run on how I want it to look. Doesn't it look wonderful. Can you tell how pleased I am with it?. If you click on the pictures they will pop up bigger. If you look at the bottom picture, can you see what's under the table? There's Dragon Egg's, these were made by my friend Kat from Kat The Hat Lady. Kat is the lovely lady that makes all those wonderful hats. I have some new ones…
The Wonderful Lost World of Mr. Hendy
Number 36 High Street in Hastings, England, started out its very long life as a soda-bottling shop. During the restoration of this 18th century grade II listed Georgian town house, they unearthed bullet-shaped soda bottles under the floorboards. According to records, it was later a saddlers in the 1