Featured Any Signifcance to the Motifs on This Chatelaine?

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!

 

Very nice chatelaine in good condition. The motifs are purely decorative imo. The 'straps and buckles' are unusual.

Modelled after David Bowie.

 

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

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

 

God I still miss Bowie !

 

I thought he would live forever.

 

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

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

- Detective charlie (who will still think bowie is a king wigardless)

 

We do. He wasn't that old.

 

and he had a FINE head a hair as well i suppose...and i mean FINE

 

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

 

I still listen to him all the time!