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stunning mate, those lines and those lights

i don't care how much of douche or rich someone is, i always give car or motorbike respect when a good one passes (and i don't mean big black landrovers (that seem to be everywhere) or those hybrid thingys that give you that creeps when they slowly quitely hoverlike past you

hence the cane.....

 

That Caddy got a whole lotta pimpin', y'know...Sweet!

 

Minton.
Silver bar brooch with marcasite and what might be a lab ruby.

 

you do you Charles..... we're ok with that !!

and rainbows are lucky.....so stay the course !!!

 

Minton impressed date codes.

 

Thirded. Nice little bar brooch. There's no reason a gent couldn't use it as a tie pin if desired, but for the unfamiliar it was worn at the neck of one of those strangulation style blouses worn before WWI. Bear said possible lab ruby, and she's likely correct. Flux melt rubies were a hot thing around then.

 

I drove it a bit-doing a hundred plus on the Cali I-5 felt like creepin'-smooth (or smoooother) than a jet.
Really was an art piece- Hollywood/Harlem Regency !
PS-Wish I would've had my Borsalino back then.
Mackin'-

 

kinda does look rubyish (little red glowies as well) so a lab one makes perfect sense

 

Man that’s cool. What a boat!

 

If you have a blacklight handy, run it under that and see if the stone fluoresces hot pink. Lab rubies tend to glow.

 

It looks like a well made piece to me, good quality even if it turns out main elements are faux.

A silver setting does not rule out a genuine stone. I had assumed a green stone was glass because it was in an 800 silver brooch, but after asking the forum realized it really was the chrome tourmaline the auctioneers had claimed.

Check your stone with UV light. Lab ruby is quite distinctive. My understanding is that the first lab rubies to come on the market at the turn of the 20th century were small & mainly used in watches. I don't know when they began to grow & market larger ones.

I like the way the faceting looks on your stone; the vertices look sharp, like it was cut, not molded. So, even if the 'stone' is glass, another indicator of a better piece.

The glittery bits surrounding the stone look more like steels than like 'marcasites', which are actually pyrite anyway.

 

Nice stone.

 

With that closer photo, I’d agree with bronwen that those might well be cut steel. That would fit the dates.

Silver was expensive and it showed off coloured stones better. It was all about the look.

I’ve a ring which I thought might be glass but it’s lab emerald. Silver setting and gold band.

 

great info guys, appreciate it, starting to feel like the good ol days again

 

Rainbows and good music, excellent!

I can't comment on the bar pin's age as I am so far from being a jewelry person that it's laughable. I did want to mention, though, that bar collar stock pins have been a thing around here much more recently in relation to English style equestrian events. I still have a few that are pretty modern (nothing as lovely as yours).

 

thanks sis i'm sure most are acquainted with that song (just think its a banger)

not my favourite melissa etheridge though.....have always loved that one from the roxy carmichael movie best

 

these were the last 2 bits from the church thing. the studs bought themselves (kept winking/blingking at me) but presuming costume/glass as the back of the stones have a metal coating and look glued. fasteners are marked 925 though

i usually dislike these turquoise inlay chip things, but thought this looked interesting enough to buy (chirpy chirpy table for both) not quite sure what for. stated made in india at back
presuming not silver (or very low grade) clip certainly isn't

 

The shield shape is a dress clip! The front looks Nepali, Indian, or some such, but the back..dunno. I think someone found the backs on a factory shelf somewhere and decided to use them.

 

Is there writing on the back of the clip?