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Yohanna

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I am married with 4 children 1 now disceased.I have 2 girls 36 and 34 and a son 29.I also have 5 grandchildren and another on the way.ages 1258and 11. I live in a cI am married with 4 children 1 now disceased.I have 2 girls 36 and 34 and a son 29.I also have 5 grandchildren and another on the way.ages 1258and 11. I live in a cottage on a farm not mine.I love collecting but cannot afford a lot as I have a shoulder dissability and cannot work hence having no money.I have problems sleeping so that is why I need my ever faithful laptop.We have a goden labrador who is 12.5 years old.I love diy hubby a joiner carpenter.interior design,flea markets reading and i love gardening.I grow all my own veg and fruit and make jam etc.I cannot sit down for long periods as i like to be on the go.I am very independant my bithday is the 4th of july and i am 57 years old.I am very interested in all danish items as My father was a dane he divorced my Mum when i was a small child and only knew him up to being 4 years old.He is noe deceased and died in fredrikshavn in denmark.! day when i can afford it i am hoping to go there to trace the family history. I have put my name as Yohanna as that how it is spelt in danish, (Read more)

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  1. thankyou hope to sell it now ...
  2. NOW FOUND OUT BY A JEWELLER THAT THIS IS A MIKIMOTO BROOCH WITH THE HALLMARK OF A CLAM SHELL WIYH THE LETTER M INSIDE IT.
  3. thanks for that advise
  4. Stillwater i do not want anything from you and do not be so rude it is not neccessary.Thankyou.
  5. russian cloisonne usually is marked with zoltonics or the the number 84. Thes salts look more like chinese to me a si sold some nearly identical to these a couple of years ago but mine wher made in In...
  6. have searched mark on the bottom to no avail??
  7. its silver plated on copper wish i knew the hallmark??
  8. If you look more closely around the top are some letters maybe the designer its not rarely old as it has a modern parrot clasp on it. Probably 1970s era.
  9. will put another photo of the hallmark ive tested it and it does do a light testing for silver but has copper coming throuhg it. thanks for the comments. And that is a good guessat being an incense bu...
  10. also rub it in palm of hand if it smells musty this is a good sign of bakelite. or pheno
  11. bakelite does not always test with simicrome try 2 parts salt 2 2 parts water if it floats its bakelite..
  12. thankyou x
  13. thanks Scandi lol didnt realise they where back to front .
  14. You can see the 900 silver content on the front the scene is called cracker barrel it originated in germany by a jewish gent cannot remebe rhis name.google it will tell you.So probably is of German or...
  15. love jensens stuff and all danish silver must be in my blood as my father was a dane. hence my name.
  16. it looks very dutch has it any hallmarks...
  17. yes a lot of necklaces and items from france and germany in the 1930s where made from casine a milk vegetable product but had formylahde in them.I just purchased a necklace from Ebay and resold it .It...
  18. definately onyx i have a pendant virtually the same came from the continent when on holiday
  19. I have a very heavy large 1 similar to this mine is from 1909 and it represents fizzy lemonade from where i live in grimsby uk it has writing i=on it will pos when i get chance.
  20. fabulous item.By the way escuse me but are you Danish? i have the same name but mine is Johanna B lol
  21. probably scandinavian as they usually originate from denmark and norway..
  22. Thanks for that will probably wait a while and try and get it valued at some point or get it repaired...
  23. oh ok thats brill any idea what it is worth?? i want to sell it biut wouldnt have a clue what it is worth and it is a huge piece. But does need some reapir to the back/...
  24. fab item i sold a trench art lighter last year i paid 2british pence for it and sold it for 37 british pounds was stunned as i knew nothing about it it had an embossed front with the order of the gart...
  25. looks very deco maybe bakelite
  26. yes they look like early celluloid or even copal bakelite need testing with simichrome polish it should go brown or yellow to get a good test result..
  27. I have a bracelet like them they are garnet glass beads..
  28. Your collection is stunning wish i could afford such nice pieces 1 day i might if i find a real treasure torve in my purchases....
  29. wow cant beleive this it is the same lol. Dont know anything about it i bought it 2 weeksa go from Malta....it would be qutie worth a lot i think because of the diamonds are there are about 9 all toge...
  30. just sold 2 of these they are so ugly grousse feet from the early 1930s scottish cairgorm. mine where stamped under the grousse fur when i peeled some back. assayed in chester uk 1920-1930.
  31. does look very georg jensen clean it as there looks to be a small hallmark as well lol
  32. looks very victorian a beauty..
  33. lovely plate i love all scandinvian items..
  34. i did have their addresses in denmark and did get int ouch about 15 years ago and found out that my dad died in 1974.written since but no replies .1 day hope to go there.. but i still get sad not know...
  35. excuse my spelling
  36. this looks like it is very old probably from the early 1900s from the former republic of chechoslavakia. all items after 1927 where stamped in this way later they are stamped chezh republic i beleive....
  37. Hi these look like parts of a necklace look at mine similar gold washed vermeil silver any marking on the back?
  38. second item is made outof wedding cake beads probably murano cant say about others any assays etc?
  39. look under where it says silve rit looks like there is a stamp inthe photo
  40. any assay marks on the pin etc sometimes they are very hard to see without a good magnification i have to use a 45x jewellers loupe with a light it makes so much easier at identifying the marks it is ...
  41. lol at you 2 i buy job lots and some of the stuff in them are awful wouldnt be seen dead in em. But thats how it goes we all can buy and sell as everyone has a different taste. I show my hubby i think...
  42. is nit kjl kenneth j lane ?
  43. Oh thanks for that as it did come from denmark anyway. Johanna.
  44. maybe my filigree locket is dutch then but cannot see assays as worn but it has the numbers and letters x111 inside the back. I thought it might have been pagan wear from norway? but looked at every t...
  45. thats gorgeous
  46. Hi it looks like it has a stamp on the bottom check it out.Worth a try. lovely
  47. Hi if you look under show and tell for yohanna these are in my collection of sconvirke jewelrey. Jo.
  48. that is a bargain if you know the year it was made? they can sell for anything up to £400 on Trocadero site.have a look very expensive site
  49. 830 is the silver content for scandinavian countries also some for early american have a look in sconvirke silver marks it may tell you the maker?
  50. vermeilled filigree washed in gold dont know the maker is there any assay marks on them? Look at mine they are from denmark they are gorgeouse items and i love them.
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