Essex Crystal Style White Cat Stick Pin old silhouette may not be delivering the

may not be delivering the best of news

revealed when one opens the heart

I'd love to know the backstory

or maybe more likely schoolmates

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

Essex Crystal Style White Cat Stick Pin old silhouette may not be delivering theI 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,