Essex Crystal Style White Cat Stick Pin old silhouette these would be great for

these would be great for the porch or patio on a hot summer evening--though really pretty great anytime at all

and to my sensibilities quite a satisfying one to have and to hold

who he told me she had "run" Bergdorf Goodman's in 1930s

revealed when one opens the heart

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Essex Crystal Style White Cat Stick Pin old silhouette these would be great forI didn't know these were a thing, but have learned that they very much are, some quite finely done, this one more humble but I think pretty charming still. Essex crystals are also known as 'reverse intaglios, ' made of a cabochon of colourless rock quartz that has been carved on the flat side after which the details of the design are painted, creating a three dimensional 'trompe l'oeil effect'. I believe that is the case here, or at least it was made,