Found some Bling!!!

[cordilleran]

The varigated blue stones are not lapis lazuli (as earlier stated) but glass slag. The remaining stones appear to be paste. The woman who deposited those baubles in the Prince Albert tin some 90 years ago was no lady. She was my wife and quite in the cups at the time.

 

[reptilekeeper]

Cordilleran I have never heard the term paste when refering to stones...could you explain what you mean by Paste?

 

[milkglassbottles]

"Paste" was a term used back in the day before quality synthetics to describe imitation stones in jewelry.