Featured Intriguing and exciting antique paperweight....

He is awesome! Congrats, @kyratango

Love yours too, @J Dagger

 

Enjoy your new treasure.

 

Love it...

found these two...

 

He is gorgeous!. Great find.

 

He is fabulous!

 

So... A bargain anyway! Thank you for finding them and providing the images with price

 

You did well, and now have a new little friend for all your critters.
You will post the result of his eye test, won't you?

@J Dagger , love your lizard pot too. I like lizards, as long as they are not Komodo dragons or crocodiles etc.

 

Thanks to all for your kind words and infos
Here are the marks and caveat signs (plus the lack of fine work...) the Cyrillic whole signature Fabergé is blurry, the kokoshnik hallmarks are once 88, once 84, the maker's mark SW is not an oval stamp and isn't consistent with the category of silverware he made.
The number of these models shown sold on Live Auctioneers is the absolute evidence of "Fauxbergé"
Of course, even if no more excited about him, I enjoy it very much

 

Eye test with UV torch says not ruby

 

And it looks like the marks were part of the casting. I could be wrong, of course.

Maybe he blinked?
Garnet is fine too. Or even glass, he is a looker anyway.

 

Could you get a close-up of the eye?

It's really the top view that puts the kibosh to the notion of Fagergé.

It's still a very nice thing.

 

The more I look at him, the more I enjoy him
Here are the

 

Not what I was expecting. Could it be amethyst?

 

He is a little charmer.

 

Usually almandine garnets, they have that purple pink hue

 

Indeed! That smile...

 

"A BARGAIN ANYWAY?" what the..., yours was obviously made for the family of the Czars while these other two were made for the mere Aristocrats. IMHO



added note: those prices were 4 and 8 years ago.....should be much better now, what a great new friend you found .

 

I feel a Romanov DNA in my blood now
Thank you for the laugh and for supporting my latest critter

 

He is now near the kyratised penwipe!

Not far from the little Vienna bronze lizard

But the paste brooches herd is contained in a drawer and they won't meet

 

Now you know that lizards love to be out in the sun & those brooches are getting cold hidden away in the drawer. I think you need to bring them all out into the sunshine & let them shine!!!!