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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RachelW, post: 9821725, member: 15376&quot;]<p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">This is a bit more of a mystery. Odd shape, opens at the bottom, also seems like its only one part of a larger something. Also brass, with 2 (should be 4, again bad damage) miniature paintings, with &#039;diamonds&#039; and enamel. The top is crowned with more diamonds and pearls, the top one teeth testing as real. The scenery seems like its newer? I&#039;ve not seen examples of this kind of brass older than 1870. But the other pieces of it seem to be inkeeping with the 1700s.</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">At the bottom half on each side, its got one side with a green gem, and another side with a twiddly spinny bit that doesn&#039;t seem to do anything. The green gem is on the side that opens, almost like its a push latch, but it doesn&#039;t do anything either. The other two sides are missing.</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">What on earth is it? How old is this? So many questions.</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]489374[/ATTACH] </p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">The paintings: One sun, one crown. No writing. I&#039;m assuming the other two had a moon and another crown perhaps?</p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]489375[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]489376[/ATTACH] </p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">The top: [ATTACH=full]489377[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]489378[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">The other two panels: [ATTACH=full]489379[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]489380[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">The bottom: Seems to have something missing as well, there&#039;s a tiny bit snapped off on each foot? [ATTACH=full]489381[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">The interior: [ATTACH=full]489382[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]489383[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">So what are these? How old are they? Are they semi/precious or are they paste? Where are they from? Should I be looking at coronets and would that mean they belonged to nobility?</p> <p style="text-align: center">HELP <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie51" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p> <p style="text-align: center">My best guess is that they&#039;re 18th Century boxes, part of something else. The eiffel tower one seems newer with the brass but i can&#039;t date it as newer with everything else accounted for, unless this is a marriage of older bits?</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">Thank you in advance!</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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