FOR YOUR BIDDING CONSIDERATION IS THIS UNIQUE ARTWORK PENDANT THAT I RECENTLY ACQUIRED FROM A LIVE ESTATE AUCTION IN UPSTATE PENNSYLVANIA. I DO NOT HAVE TOO MUCH HISTORY BUT FOUND THE FOLLOWING ON THE NET. I'M NOT SURE OF THE HISTORY, AGE, MATERIAL BUT WILL EXPLAIN THE BEST I CAN.

• CATS EYE/TIGERS EYE??? - I'M NOT SURE?
• HOOK IS SMALL STUDDED - LOOKS COPPER / BRASS COLOR.
• BACK OF HOOK READS "RMN"
• I BELIEVE RMN STANDS FOR (PLEASE NOTE: I FOUND THIS THROUGH RESEARCH BUT CAN NOT GAURANTEE THIS IS THE MARKING)"Réunion des musées nationaux "

• Background on Réunion des Musées Nationaux (RMN)RMN was founded in 1895 to raise and administer the funds required for the acquisition of works of art by national collections. At its creation, the RMN was made up of only four bodies: the Louvre, the Château de Versailles, the Musée du Luxembourg and the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye (Musée des Antiquités nationales).Today, the RMN works with 34 institutions: 32 museums and two exhibition venues. The museums range from the immense, with the Louvre, the Musée d'Orsay and the Château de Versailles, through medium-sized institutions such as the Musée Picasso, Paris, the Musée de la Renaissance at the Château d'Ecouen and the Musée Message Biblique Marc Chagall, Nice to small entities such as the Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris, and the Musée Magnin, Dijon. The exhibition venues are the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais and the Palais de la Porte Dorée. Twenty-two of these 34 institutions are located in Paris or the surrounding area.

  RMN Replicas

  Its origin : Set up in 1794, just two years after the Louvre opened, RMN's moulding workshop's original task was to provide museums and art schools with good reproductions of antique sculptures. Since then, the workshop's collection totals over 5,000 moulds of works in the Louvre and other French or foreign museums - a representative picture of the history of world sculpture from its origins to modern times!

  High fidelity to the originals : The workshop has inherited a time-honored tradition of quality reproduction. The imprint is always taken from the original, or by digital process for the more fragile pieces. The model is then used to make a plaster, bronze, resin or terracotta reproduction. The piece is finished in a special workshop to obtain the same patina as the original, which may be in marble, polychrome wood, glazed pottery, etc.

  Mark of quality : All RMN replicas bear the RMN stamp and each has a certificate of origin and guarantee. Come and view a wide and ever-changing range of RMN replicas in ARTICA.
  

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On Jul-07-10 at 06:44:10 PDT, seller added the following information: