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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 368511, member: 2844&quot;]Yes it is Chinese, and a little beauty. I would think ca 1860-1880.</p><p>The overlay is often made of pieces of serpentine, bone and mother of pearl, but it looks like this one has lacquer on carved wood as well as serpentine. Am I right, Chris?</p><p><br /></p><p>There are chinese bronze hinges on ebay and Etsy, here is the Etsy page:</p><p><a href="https://www.etsy.com/nl/search?q=chinese%20bronze%20hinge" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.etsy.com/nl/search?q=chinese%20bronze%20hinge" rel="nofollow">https://www.etsy.com/nl/search?q=chinese bronze hinge</a></p><p>I don&#039;t know if you can get a better deal on ebay, they will only show me the price in rubles.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/confused.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/eek.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I only have amateur knowledge of minor black lacquer repair on small items for myself, so I can&#039;t really advise you. Maybe [USER=78]@gregsglass[/USER] knows?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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