Eye Candycane Wednesday

[evelyb30]

Post 'em if you got 'em!  Keep the pictures smaller so they'll load more quickly, and please no live auctions.  

Just re-found in my stash - 800 silver and coral strawberry.

Sterling and butterfly wing. 

Cast silver.  Can't bring myself to list it.

[arlene_v]

"Can't bring myself to list it"  ... yeah,  that's my problem too!

Had my gallbladder out on Monday so not too much shopping around here, except online, of course.

Scored this on Sunday at a 50% off left over sale at a Church Bazaar.

Very modern 18k and plastic cord choker. Love it, and it looks absolutely great on, comfortable too. 

Yet another keeper, LOL.

[the_jeweled_feline]

A few more from Saturday's "I'm not shopping" trip to the flea

Large Miracle brooch

Miriam Haskell

Weiss

Coro Duette with some dead stones

[flipping_treasures]

Wow Very nice finds.  Hope you are feeling better Arlene and are back on the jewel finding trail soon.

Ran into this crystal menagerie.  These are all signed Swarovski.

Unsigned

This is my favorite and one I will be keeping for myself.

Signed Silver Deer/Crystal Zoo

[arlene_v]

Thanks for the good wishes, Sandy. That is one great menagerie you have there, the snail is just adorable.

[evelyb30]

Have to crow about this one.  I went to an overpriced charity thrift today and found this.  It looks like a costume painted pansy, about an inch across.  Guess again.  The pearl is real, the black is baked on, and there's a nice fat 14k mark on the clasp.  There's a watch holder on the back.  1950s Victorian Revival is my guess; it has a C clasp but the hinge isn't old.   It has some sort of maker's mark too, but I don't know whose.  It'll probably go locally. The price?  Eight bucks.  

[arlene_v]

Score!

[arlene_v]

FWIW, this AM I have done some research the mark on my choker shown here.

The mark is as follows: 18k Italy .. then the Italian registration mark ...a star, followed by 1228 VI (my eyes were so hoping for 1226 VI)

Nice enough,  but NOT an Authentic Roberto Coin Africa  18K yellow gold rubber necklace choker.

No ruby for one thing, and the design is subtly different to Coin's Africa series.At least now I know that the brown material is rubber and not plastic, LOL.

Not Roberto Coin, and therein lies a thousand or more dollars.  But  this company was most definitely copying a Coin design. Interesting.

[old.crows.nest]

Arlene, that is an interesting necklace. When you mentioned Africa i remembered something about the Maker of my Ivory Bracelet. He also made Elephent Hair bracelets. I wonder if your rubber is meant to simulate Elephant Hair?

[arlene_v]

Good point, OCN I  think that's it 100%,  ... the rubber cords are intended to simulate elephant hair. 

This is so  interesting in quite a few respects:

1) how close the mark is to the registered Roberto Coin one (1228 vs 1226 VI). The marks are small enough that you need good eyes and a good loupe to see the difference. 

2). The similarity to Roberto Coin's Africa Line ... even down to  the way it's marked .. with 18kt Italy and not the standard 750 in a cartouche.

Deliberate? I'd lay money on it being so!

Wish I could track down the company that uses this  registration mark, but so far, no luck.  

But now I know why it caught my eye at the bazaar last week .. it reminded me of jewelry  I'd seen in South Africa in the 1970s and 1980s made of gold and elephant hair. 

[old.crows.nest]

Cool 🙂

I tried this page (which you might know about) but no joy 😞

http://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=27003

[sweet2395helen]

Arlene,

Don't know if this will help, but I've seen others for sale,  here and otherwise, that didn't have the ruby (the listing said "made before he started putting a ruby on", and one was even marked the 1226 rather than the 1228.

I think you might have the real thing!

[arlene_v]

Hi Helen, I saw those too and am not sure what to think ...

I'd love this to be the real deal, but am worried by this 1228 mark. I'll contact someone at the Roberto Coin website and see if they can shed some light on this.

OCN thanks for that link, I had checked it out earlier and no dice.

Anyway, sorry to have hijacked this thread, if I have any more info I will start a new thread, promise!

[rain777blue]

This eyecandy is interesting!!! I never knew elephants had hair? But if you all say so , then I absolutely believe it.. and the necklace as well as the other things are beautiful!!!

[evelyb30]

I think it's from their tails.