Geri's New Elephant: A Closer Look

[gerisullivan]

The detail on my new elephant pin is too good to limit it to icon resolution only. Here's a closer look, in the pin's actual orientation.

Update: I originally posted this with a small shot of the picture here, but the link didn't work in some browsers because I'd neglected to change back from CMYK to RGB mode before making the jpeg. Now that I've eliminated the original picture, I'm just posting the link to the new one. Cheers.

Comments

[bovil.livejournal.com]

That looks alarmingly like a batik print block.

[bridgetminerva.livejournal.com]

Aileen Loved it so much she is jumping "yelling "purdy ELLY-phant!" I think it looks lovely.

[janetmk.livejournal.com]

Very nice.

However, when I try to see the larger version neither firefox nor IE can open it. Firefox says the image "cannot be displayed because there are errors in it."

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

Same here.

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

Sorry! I hope I've fixed it. If it still doesn't work, please let me know if you run into similar problems with other pictures in my photo galleries.

Thanks

[janetmk.livejournal.com]

I can see the photo now--spectacular piece.

The new image has a different URL so you need to edit the link in your post. I got to the image from your main photo gallery page.

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

Many thanks. I should have thought of that, too! I've updated my post -- hope everything's working properly now.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Geri, the original post asked about a duplicate. Is there anything stamped or engraved on the back?

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

Alas, no. Nothing that looks like a maker's mark, nothing, period. The clasp, which you can see through the left side of the big version, is an interesting open-work pattern of cheap but reassuringly solid metal. The elephant's body is some kind of resin/plastic; I don't know my materials science or costume jewelry to speculate what. The accents are metal.

I looked through a couple hundred elephant pin pictures on eBay, and didn't see anything like it. Hey, I just typo'd that as "eBad." Fun! (Okay, so how many times has that usage been independently "discovered" now?) Better yet, LJ's spell checker is smart enough to suggest eBay as one of the possible words intended. Along with eB ad, eB-ad, bead, Eba, bad, egad, and Eba's.....

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was pretty sure it was mass-produced -- the granulation is molded rather than each ball put on individually. It's meant to look like it's from Indonesia/Thailand, but it's mass-produced. I have friends who travel in that area and I'll point them to the picture and let you know if anything comes up.

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

Yes, it is most certainly mass-produced. I believe it's a current or really quite recent piece, so your friends might well run across it in their travels. My budget for a second one is $15 or less including shipping costs.