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Circa 1910 highly collectible Jelly Opal art glass stick pin flashing sparkly blue and red! This art glass is also known as "dragon's breath" or "Mexican jelly opal glass" and often erroneously sold as "saphiret". These cabs have been popular from Victorian, Edwardian to Art Deco to Mid Century times. This one is of the early variety in that at a 90 degree angle approach, it shows a sandy color, until moved back and forth to flash the rich blues and orangey reds!
The bezel set 15mm x 7m...

(A) Circa 1920 necklace with a 2 1/2" round medallion pendant decorated with an applied floral leaf ornament containing 3 prong set green glass stones resembling agate or chrysoprase.
Neck: 26" overhead 4mm chain.
(B) The ring holding a 23mm x 15mm X 5mm high oval poured green glass cab and held by 25+ fleur de lis prongs is a 6. These delightful little brass rings rarely survive in such a good condition. A/5/17
Take both with your USA ck or USPS MO.

$12 USPS Priority/Ins/ ...

Any 2/$59. Six vintage glass bangle bracelets. Cross collectible for Far Eastern Peking Bejing Chinese art glass bangle bracelet collectors who love the happy clinking sounds that glass makes! Assorted. Images tell dimension. Please view all images to apprediate.

(A) Either of two semi translucent blue ;
(B) Orange opaque w/ yellow red green white embedded;
(C) Green opaque ish resembling malachite, may indeed have malachite pieces embedded;
(D) 2 for price of 1 golden bambo...

Quintessential Art Deco! 104 grams! At ~ 27", longer would be too heavy. 12mm frosted glass or crystal faceted beads resembling camphor glass, while the faceted "French jet" black beads are wafers, bicones, rhondells and 18mm discs for a very, very Art Deco look. These are wired in place; no cord here to break! Old filigree hook box clasp. Teenie flea bites ARE expected for this type of necklace and age. Perhaps this was once a 60" flapper (>200 grams!?) necklace, and the poor girl tiring...

Button collectors here is jewelry for your garments or your competition tray. All circa 1900. Note: Assorted prices.
(A) Gay 90s Jewels. Red crimson amber blue green or amethyst color facet glass stones with fab brass designs, one is signed Gesetzlich- from 1 3/8" to 1 3/4": any 2/$59 order and
(B) Victorian 90s pearl steel: 1 3/4 - Riveted 12 facet cut steel, 5/8" highly iridescent nacre abalone pearl jewel center and warm golden textured brass, makes this a must collectible! ...

Four lots priced at $59 each, please view special below:
(A) Antique Victorian engraved handkerchief corner 3 pc construction, brass, 12 facet cut steel pictorial ivy fence button 1 3/8" as seen in BBB. OR
(B) Same motif escutcheon through 1 1/4" steel disc. OR
(C) Leaves berries escutcheon through 1 1/2" stl disc; OR
(D) 14 pc waistcoats all have riveted steel, dyed blue purple, pearl, multi piece construction.

Please examine each image to appreciate!
> $12 each USPS Prio...

Antique picture buttons part of a collection ending in the late 70s. Until now, these have never seen the internet light of day.
(B) 50+ pc berries, cherry, corn, strawberry, pear, plant life, cut steel, wood on steel cup pair, pewter, tinted, 1/4" - 1 1/2". Please view images 5-7 for details. Instant collection!

Sold (A) 14 pc net collection Victorian picture button themes: putti dragonfly, angel swing, putto fountain, angel wall, Paris back Aesop's wolf & crane, FOP, bird fence ste...

What a buy! Instant antique button collection. One 27 piece lot of fancy ornate 1880s Victorian some vintage some antique metal button with cut steel rivets:
(A) Some painted & 1" steel cup; Image 1 & 2 (backs)
(B) Some painted filigree Czech (?) & 1" stl cup, plus; Image 2 & 3 (backs)
(C) T W & W Paris & Deponirt, dyed pearl, plus. Image 5 & 6 (backs) 27 total all nice! Clean backs from being mounted on show cards for decades.

$12 USPS Priority/Ins/Track or Free with your U...

Two French button lots:

(A) Theatre arts people, Is this Canio or Pierrot? Late 1800s antique French Victorian brass metal picture button marked in back: Paris - Depose - A P & Cie in superb condition! 1 7/16". In the button collecting world known as Canio of Pagliacci. A little softening at the nose where it should be, this 100 years later! 10 grams
(B) French Depose 1 3/8" hand painted porcelain paisley with DEPOSE mark above the self shank: images 4, 5 & 6.

$10 USPS Priorit...

One dozen, 92 grams of dark metal eagle WWI or WWII World War, 1 1/8" uniform buttons by: Horstmann, Scovill, Myers, Liebmann, American Co, City Works. Officer? Army? Bronze? p-bo-f-e.

$9 USPS Priority/Ins/Track or Free with your USA Ck or USPS MO.
Please collect with confidence after reviewing the dozens of Trocadero verified testimonials, then view All Extreme close up images for more info, as all Qs will be answered here in lieu of email reply.

Antique vintage Victorian assorted collection of goldstone antique buttons. Some signed while others may be paperweight or Leo Poppers - please view all images for complete descriptions and dimensions. Also a circa 1880 Victorian 3 1/8" sash ornament C catch pin brooch with three deeply saturated sparkly copper aventurine art glass cabs and open work applied on pinched arts crafts oval base. Also view dozens of assorted buttons divided into various lots - includes an R. L & F Paris back, poss...

Another Silver Sculpture Set Signed: MIMI DEE Sterling. A challenging Special Order for one of this metalwork jewelry artist's many Clients. The bracelet (see listing above), hammered and hand wrought until links were shaped without soldering! NO assembly here! NO imported pieces! All Originally made in a USA Studio...just as the modernists did back in the 50's...

This signed studio metalwork jewelry artist who also paints oils has made fiber art to wear garments in the past and does not...

Similar metal work can be custom ordered. Completely hand wrought by and signed MIMI DEE STERLING HANDMADE in a USA studio. Working and Shaping Silver takes the Jewelry Artist on a journey, not unlike the one the Painter or Potter takes...Still with some direction and expectation from the Patron who after all makes it possible for one to continue to create...

This signed studio metalwork jewelry artist who also paints oils has made fiber art to wear garments in the past and does not duplica...

Only one. From a hand rises this Made In a USA studio stylized figural metal butterfly 280 grams sterling silver and semi precious rainbow moonstone sculpture which was hand wrought by one set of self learned artist hands from beginning to end resulting in art work by this metal smith and signed: Handmade - Mimi Dee - Sterling.
Title: "Butterflies Are Free". The perfect gift,

10 Oz of sterling silver !
Over 100 rainbow moonstones, including one 15 carat blue moonstones from othe...

Commission. This is the first cross or religious sterling silver piece this artist has ever made and it is for one of her longtime clients. It is no coincidence that it should be for such a special time.
See Supine Right and Supine Left Closeups. Legal: All images design concept content text solely owned by Mimi Dee.

Similar work can be custom ordered. Stamped MIMI DEE STERLING. "Papa Straw" : 5" 125mm! Artist Signed Sterling Sculpture was finished at 4 AM one morning, a few weeks after the request came in from a long time Patron whose father was a jeweler in Boston's Jewelry Building. She said, "I have been collecting Scarecrows since I was a child, will you make me a Silver Pendant of one carrying a 'baby' in a bundle?" Here is the cute little creature, weighing 1.8 oz of 925 silver, 2 Onyx eyes and a...

"Halloween Witch and Cat 2003", a commissioned handwrought signed sterling silver sculpture, signed "MIMI DEE STERLING" wrought for a client who has only collected Victorian jewelry in the past.
Although originally planned as a pendant or necklace, it was often displayed on a wall.
This client, whose father was a jeweler in Boston's Jewelers building decades ago, has shared, 'I have never liked new jewelry until I met you Mimi...make it with a big, bent nose...'
Impressive at: 6" X ...

This is an image of a original watercolor of one of the cove beaches on Marginal Way which starts at Ogunquit Beach Maine and ends at Perkins Cove Maine. This has been recently knife painted as a small oil. Please collect with confidence after reviewing the dozens of Trocadero verified testimonials, then view all extreme close up images for more info, as all Qs will be answered here in lieu of email reply.

Original work by this artist has been exhibited in various area artist association sh...