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'Ghostly Wood' Jar and Cover, from Josiah Wedgwood and Sons, 1916-32

From the Victoria & Albert Museum

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"The Journalist"

From the "Women of the Future" French vintage postcard series, staged and photographed by A. Bergeret

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The moth and the flame. Divine emblems. 1867.

Internet Archive1k

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Carriage Boots

1875-1885

Albany Institute of History & Art

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• Evening Dress.

Date: 1971

Designer/Maker: Ronald Amey (United States, 1934-1986)

Medium: Polyester crepe, quilted silk satin, cut glass ball buttons.

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Riding Ensemble

c.1896

United States

The MET (Accession Number: 2009.300.640a–g)

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Gold Beaded Dress

1920s

Augusta Auctions

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Pen pearls is the common name for pearls from the Pinnidae shell family, often called “wing shells” or “fan clams.”

Atrina shells have a continuous nacreous layer and in Pinna shells the nacreous layer is discontinuous. Pen pearls can be either nacreous or non-nacreous as seen in photo #2 which includes a large hollow nacreous pen pearl surrounded by lovely black non-nacreous drop shaped pen pearls.

A unique characteristic of about 80% (an estimate of a friend who sees lots of pen pearls) of non-nacreous pen pearls is crackling which decreases their value as compared with other natural pearls of the same sizes and shapes. Crack densities vary from slight depressions to quite obvious cracks as seen in the two photos.

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A black Chantilly lace evening gown

c. 1910

Kerry Taylor Auctions

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"And yet it moves. A piece, emission, or work of the Dawn Machine. "

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Tiger in a Rainstorm

Katayama Yōkoku

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This octopus candle holder that my sister hand made in a pottery studio.

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These take a lot of work to create, only to never be used again

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Ballgown, 1890. House Of Worth.

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Ball gown by the House of Worth ca. 1896

From the Denver Art Museum