04-24-2015 01:22 PM
Found a jar of junk jewelry at TS. Anyone see anything interesting? Know what the DBH/BDH/BHD stands for? The ring is adjustable faux leather with enamel butterfly marked "N". Earring at bottom have lion charm. Think there's a complete picture later!
Shell earrings with gold gilt. Acrylic stones? Fossil watch.
Glass Micro mosiac. This stumps me--See sold from 3.00 to 4000. This is a keychain. M/N Italia on pendant
Patent Made in Italy on keychain ring. Haven't fount that mark anywhere. Much shinier than picture.
04-24-2015 01:30 PM - edited 04-24-2015 01:32 PM
Green is handpainted wood beads. Center is copper confetti under glass. Pink is glass beads.
Filigree circles are wood carved
Pretty with black chain. Older "1928"
Gitano abalone watch
04-24-2015 01:33 PM
Thanks for any information!
04-24-2015 04:32 PM - edited 04-24-2015 04:34 PM
That Keychain is a beautiful Millefiori piece. You should find a home for it with no problem at all. I sold two pieces today. Love it. The mill grain detailing in the metal is just beautiful.
Diane
04-24-2015 04:45 PM
Whering- Thank you so much! I ran across terms like pietra dura and millefiori but couldn't tell the difference. Search gave same items for both!! Most of jar was run of the mill. The abalone watch is nice, but I saw the little heart peeking out the bottom and had to have it! Thanks again--Jeri
04-24-2015 06:19 PM
04-24-2015 06:23 PM
Millefiori means thousand flowers in Italian. Only painted glass from Murano Italy is genuine Millefiori. If that has changed, I haven't heard. I am certainly not all knowing though. I've been to Murano...wow, what fun that was. From there over to Venice in the same day. The gondola "drivers" were on strike, so we missed that part.
Diane
04-24-2015 06:45 PM - edited 04-24-2015 06:46 PM
Diane the way I understood millefiori was that yes, it does mean a thousand flowers. But the flowers were not created by either paint or bits of glass that were put together to make a mosaic. It was created by the use of different colored canes of glass to form a design.
As seen here:
That were used to form this paperweight:
Or this pendant:
Or these beads.
Now terms have been known to evolve around here ....... so has it evolved to include mosaics and painted glass now?
04-24-2015 06:54 PM
That is interesting. I was reading somewhere recently that the market is filled with glass that purports to be Millefiori and it is actually mass produced glass with identical patterns. I hope that it doesn't come to be accepted as Millefiori, where each piece is unique.
I remember a similar discussion a week or so ago about jelly belly.
I need to read more about it. I have a soft spot for Millefiori so I want to learn all I can. I need to change my comment about handpainted to handcrafted.
Diane
04-24-2015 07:00 PM
04-24-2015 07:00 PM
04-24-2015 07:04 PM
@whering660 wrote:
That is interesting. I was reading somewhere recently that the market is filled with glass that purports to be Millefiori and it is actually mass produced glass with identical patterns. I hope that it doesn't come to be accepted as Millefiori, where each piece is unique.
I remember a similar discussion a week or so ago about jelly belly.
I need to read more about it. I have a soft spot for Millefiori so I want to learn all I can. I need to change my comment about handpainted to handcrafted.
Diane
Iike I said Diane, terms have a tendancy to evolve here, which is why I asked.
04-24-2015 07:15 PM
04-24-2015 07:19 PM - edited 04-24-2015 07:25 PM
04-24-2015 07:31 PM