I always have my camera when I go antique shopping! xoxo
I always have my camera when I go antique shopping! xoxo
I found these at an estate sale this morning. I like the saying the bird is carrying ….“Let us be patient! These severe afflictions, Not from the ground arise; But oftentimes celestial benedictions, Assume this dark disguise”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow quotes (the most popular American Poet in the 19th century, 1807–1882)
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Guilloche enamel butterfly by the leading Norwegian silversmith, David-Andersen. This design has been one of the company’s most popular, and the butterfly has been produced in a myriad of colours and several multicolours, as well as 3 sizes. It has been widely exported, and there are probably more flying around in the United States than in Norway. The butterfly is made of sterling silver and treated with a gold wash (vermeil). It is then guilloched (given the pattern seen through the enamel) and finally coated with a coloured transparent enamel. This mid- blue example is the medium size.
http://www.scandinaviansilver.co.uk/name_show/david-andersen
Note *Guilloché (Guilloche) is a decorative engraving technique in which a very precise intricate repetitive pattern or design is mechanically engraved into an underlying material with fine detail. Specifically, it involves a technique of engine turning, called guilloché in French after the French engineer “Guillot”, who invented a machine “that could scratch fine patterns and designs on metallic surfaces”.[citation needed] The machine, called a rose engine, improved upon the more time-consuming practice of making similar designs by hand, allowing for greater delicacy, precision, and closeness of the line, as well as greater speed.
Note to self … bid OnlineAuction.com l seller Letsplaytagsales… love this blue one!!
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Theda Bara made more than 40 films between 1914 and 1926, but complete prints of only six still exist. Most were produced by William Fox, beginning with A Fool There Was (1915) and ending with The Lure of Ambition (1919). The phenomenal success of A Fool There Was gave William Fox the money to found Fox Film Corporation, while the ensuing films ensured the studio’s success.
At the height of her fame, Bara was making $4,000 per week. She was one of the most popular movie stars, ranking behind only Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford.[8] Bara’s best-known roles were as the “vamp”, although she attempted to avoid typecasting by playing wholesome heroines in films such as Under Two Flags and Her Double Life. She also appeared as Juliet in a version of Shakespeare‘s Romeo and Juliet. Although Bara took her craft seriously, she was too successful as an exotic “wanton woman” to develop a more versatile career.
Most of Bara’s early films were shot on the East Coast, primarily at the Fox Studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey.[9] Bara lived with her family in New York City during this time. The rise of Hollywood as the center of the American film industry forced her to relocate to Los Angeles to film the epic Cleopatra (1917), which became one of Bara’s biggest hits. No known prints of Cleopatra exist today, but numerous photographs of Bara in costume as the Queen of the Nile have survived. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theda_Bara
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Love this elephant clock!! NOtes * Read more about …The Elephant Fountain at the Place de la Bastille c.1805-1810
The Elephant that occupied the Place de la Bastille in the wake of the Revolution.
A mason is known to protect his community, he is a preacher, a follower and also a protector of a secret society in which he believes. A person, who is not a mason, is not allowed to wear this ring. These are generally found in the fingers of many people, ranging from visionaries to celebrities. Nowadays wearing a masonic ring has just become a fashion more than a tradition. It is also a secret that how the antique masonic ringswas discovered and when the tradition of wearing it was started.Antique masonic rings Antique or vintage are those rings which the masons used to wear.Antique masonic rings have a design of a square and a compass on its crest.
http://www.mood-ringcolormeanings.com/antique-masonic-rings.html
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