More silver jewelry for sale

I have more silver items for sale (from left to right):

• Sterling earrings in a Tibetan style, with tiny turquoise and coral pieces, round with fish hook wires: $15.
• Two-color amber earrings - dark Baltic brown/orange and green amber, set in sterling: $15.
• Celtic "Book of Kells"-style earrings with silver serpents and green stones in eyes and mouth - very, very cool: $18.
• Garnet pendant, with stone set in beautifully embellished sterling bezel - ready to be put on a silver chain or a silk necklace: $18
• Sterling artisan earrings from Central Asia, featuring long, elegant, open curls of silver, with pieces of pinkish quarts and silver embellishments: $18.
• Sterling ring from Poland - I call it the "coral reef" for it's abstract coral-like pieces, with two small, dark pink stones and sterling framing a freshwater pearl: $25.
  

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If you're interested in any of these items, please contact Melissa @ x5249 or @ mjordan@ngs.org - thanks for looking!

Amber and sterling jewelry and Palekh brooch for sale

Here are the Baltic amber pieces I have for sale. All are set in sterling silver.

The rings left and center are $14 each. The ring on the right, with the larger piece of amber is $18. The ring on the left is in a "Russian Modern" style (what we might call Art Nouveau). The center ring has a lovely filigree setting. And the last ring, with the larger amber piece, has a botanical theme - a slender leaf and what may be a flower, or additional delicate leaves, with berries.

The amber bead earrings with the fish hook backs are $10 - very simple and classic. The bezel-set earrings are $15 and have neat inclusions in the amber and feature kidney hook backs.

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The Palekh brooch is $20. This is a original traditional Russian craft piece, beautifully hand-painted and laquered with three musicians mid-performance. Unlike my photo, they are not fuzzy and out of focus. The piece is signed and dated by the artist who created the piece.

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If you are interested, please contact Melissa @ X5249 or @ mjordan@ngs.org - thanks for looking!

Amber and Silver Jewelry for Sale

Here are the two Baltic amber necklaces I have for sale (click on photo to enlarge):


I purchased these during the time I lived in Moscow. The two-tone necklace is approximately 27" long with the uniquely Russian drilled amber clasp (you just screw it together - you'll never lose it!), and is $25. The light colored necklace is smaller at approximately 22" and more delicate, but it has lots of clearly visible inclusions in the amber segments, making it truly unique. You might not be growing any prehistoric plants or dinosaurs from it, a la Jurassic Park, but it's pretty darn cool. $30 for that one.

And here are the two Mexican silver bracelets I have for sale (click on photo to enlarge):

I purchased these bracelets on a trip through the Yucatan. They're fairly long(both approximately 7 1/2 inches.) The smaller one (which needs silver polish!) is sterling and has lapis lazuli beads set in the silver (and is a much darker blue than the photo shows) and is $15.

The larger bracelet is a bold, big artisan piece (for a large wrist) with ten malachite disks set in silver. It is marked 950, meaning it has a higher silver content that sterling (925) and less likely to tarnish than sterling - it has a beautiful glow to it. $40 and worth every penny. The photo does not do it justice.

Clearly, I am no National Geographic photographer. :)

Contact Melissa @ x5249 or mjordan@ngs.org if you're interested in any of the pieces.

Thanks for looking!

Egyptian Doumbek

Coach Pocket Bag

Vostok Soviet Submarine Clock $75

Here she is, in all her Iron Curtain glory:


Someone asked me why the Soviets used wind-up clocks on even their nuclear subs. It's because they are reliable, plain and simple. And this clock is reliable. It's ticking away on my bookshelf at home as I write this.
















Just think, with this in your home, you can channel Sean Connery speaking with a horrible Russian accent or Alec Baldwin in his pre-Jack Donaghy days...

The clock works like... well, like clockwork. :) It's a quality 12-jewel timepiece that runs for 8 days when the mainspring is fully wound with the key (which also opens the door to the face.) Approximately 8 inches in diameter, the clock is about 3" high and weighs roughly 6 pounds.

$75 is an excellent price for this gem, which I purchased in 1990 at VoyenTorg, the military department store in Moscow, just off Red Square. (They never checked my ID to see if I had permission to buy stuff there. That's why I have a closet full of uniform hats and other goodies. Ah, the good old days!)

This is a Soviet era clock from the respected Vostok company, timepiece supplier to the Soviet - and now Russian - military. It's marked "Made in the USSR" at the bottom. At the top, you'll see the submarine logo and the word "Kommandirskiye" - Vostok's trademark for military clocks and watches.

For your information, I'm providing links to sites that feature this clock (and its post-Soviet "Made in Russia" cousin) so you can see the going rate for one of these guys:

This is the current "Made in Russia" model of this clock. It goes for $200+.

Holy crow! Goodwill auctioned one off for $125 and they didn't even guarantee that it worked!

Again, $250+ (not including shipping for this sucker!!)

If you're interested, please contact merujo@gmail.com - thanks for your interest!