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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SYNCHRONCITY, post: 2158746, member: 6283&quot;]I got this about a year ago on ebay and the seller gave little info. I put it into a shadow box with my antique hair jewelry pocket watch chains and little miniature antique coin purses. I forgot I even had it. Tonight I saw it again and figured at least one of you would know more about it. Whatever I could see of the mark looks like it says Bates &amp; Bacon, but I could be wrong.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is a long ladies pocket watch slide chain necklace and has the most unusual fob charms hanging from it. Since I have it pinned to the velvet board, it looks shorter than in person. I had to fold it to get it to fit in my shadow box scene.</p><p><br /></p><p>(Yikes! One of the fobs looks like the devil! The other looks like a gargoyle and in my opinion looks like the cartoon character Stitich, from Lilo &amp; Stitch, lol. Stitch looks like he has little green gems for eyes. He has a toothy grin and bat ears of some sort.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Devil (gulp!) has a faceted gem that looks like citrine and Lilo has a cabochon style citrine gem too. The piece is marked (see pictures) and I think the metal is made out of some kind of brass? It is heavy piece. I took the panel out of the shadowbox I made because the glass had too much glare to take pictures. I pinned everything in and didn&#039;t want to undo the pins so I couldn&#039;t show you guys better detail in my pics.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>My questions are:</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff4d4d">***</span><span style="color: #4d4dff">Is the beaded purse on the top right side an Iriquois Beaded Purse?</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #ff4d4d"><b>-Are the gems real citrine and emeralds?</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff4d4d"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff4d4d"><b>-Could this piece have once been gold plated and the gold wore off?</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff4d4d"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff4d4d"><b>-What do you call these characters? Are they gargoyles, mythical creatures/beasts?</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff4d4d"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff4d4d"><b>-How old is this? Maybe Art Nouveau era?</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff4d4d"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff4d4d"><b>-Is it rare?</b></span></p><p><br /></p><p>I am so sorry I put so many pictures. I just wanted to show you guys as much detail as I could. Thanks in advance for your replies</p><p>[ATTACH=full]252422[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]252423[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]252424[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]252425[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]252426[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]252427[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]252428[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]252429[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]252430[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]252431[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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