Featured Any Signifcance to the Motifs on This Chatelaine?

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  1. Curioser

    Curioser Well-Known Member

    It appears to be silver-plate over copper, with some areas left alone as copper. The top has a shield with copper edge containing a smaller shield inside with a five-point crown. On each side is a dolphin with brass "hair"? on its head.

    The three chains are made of links that imitate belts with buckles with keepers; they appear to be gold-plated or brass. Height is 5 7/8", width is 2 1/2". The back tab is hinged but not spring-loaded.

    Does this appear to be set of meaningful designs or just a whimsical concoction? Many thanks!
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  2. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Very nice chatelaine in good condition. The motifs are purely decorative imo. The 'straps and buckles' are unusual.
    Modelled after David Bowie.:playful:

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  3. charlie cheswick

    charlie cheswick Well-Known Member

    Totally Fab! even down to the wigs on those fishy type things :woot:

    i'm not seeing any brass apart from on those connecting rings maybe

    the gold areas look more like gilding from here on a white metal

    totally throws you the back, the front looks fine the back less so :confused:
     
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  4. johnnycb09

    johnnycb09 Well-Known Member

    God I still miss Bowie !
     
  5. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    I thought he would live forever.:(
     
  6. charlie cheswick

    charlie cheswick Well-Known Member

    was that his own hair in that photo do we think? :shifty:

    hate to say it (and i couldn't really care less)

    but something rises in me when i think i see one on a man :muted:

    - Detective charlie :shifty: (who will still think bowie is a king wigardless)
     
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  7. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    We do.:) He wasn't that old.
     
  8. charlie cheswick

    charlie cheswick Well-Known Member

    and he had a FINE head a hair as well i suppose...and i mean FINE :singing:
     
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  9. Curioser

    Curioser Well-Known Member

    Thanks, all. May be just a designer's creative urge.
     
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  10. Marie Forjan

    Marie Forjan Well-Known Member

    I still listen to him all the time!
     
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