Featured Antique 1900s gold and carved stone cicada brooch, signed Guiraud.

Ooooooh, lovely cicada!!
(And, wow, you're really talented with repairs!)

 

Thank you bluumz
Repairs/kyratisations are my hobby For me, nothing beats hunting a wounded insect jewel and improve its condition

 

The dragonfly looks much happier now.

 

Kyra, all I can continue to say is YOU AND YOUR TALENTS ARE AMAZING!!!! I LOVE your latest bug!!!!!

 

wow on the Dragonfly, looks fabulous

 

Yep! and... me too!

Thank you Aqui

Thanks!

Happy Thanksgiving to all my US friends!!!

 

I don’t know how much you paid but I really love that. My guess is that the so-called jeweler offered them 15 bucks for it after pretending not to see any markings. Anyway, it is gorgeous. R

 

Another amazing project Kyra!

 

Richard... I guess your guess is right!
I paid a whopping 300€ it could have been sold for far more
Thank you for your appreciation!

Ha Judy, thank you
I'm glad it is rendering well

 

That is a very stunning cicada!

 

That. That right there. It’s a perfect thing! How wonderful! I adore cicadas and whomever created this guy was quite a skilled craftsman. Could the stone perhaps be smoky quartz?

 

Thank you, Smudged I'm very pleased to have catch it!

Thank you Vesuvia! The details even underneath are stunning
The carved stone is totally opaque...

 

What a beauty! Both pieces!

Leslie

 

Lovely. From an avid ex collector of insect jewellery.

 

Thank you!

Thank you! May I ask what made you stop collecting insect jewellery? My critters and the hunt of them are part of my life!

 

At one point, my partner bought me a diamond bee and asked if he bought me that would I stop. Of course I said yes and still kept on collecting. I found it much easier to find old ones in the UK When we moved here, I had a hoard. I decided to put nearly all of them into auction to send them on their way as I felt I had too much "stuff" Can we ever have too much stuff I ask myself. It was also an age thing as our kids were'nt interested. They had spent their lives being with "stuff miners" and it put them off hoards. It is odd, our son now lives with a hoarder.

 

Thanks Popsycat to share your story! So... you sold all your pieces, even the diamond bee?
Having no child, I think I'll go to heaven with all my "hoard", no way to part of it before

 

NO, I still have the bee. Tomorrow, I will get someone to photograph the few I kept to show you. I loved collecting insect jewellery.

 

Ah, another person with the bug bug.

 

The Bzz bzzz bug