Featured 1,100-Year-Old Brooch

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  1. Firemandk

    Firemandk Well-Known Member

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  2. flipper

    flipper Striving to face adversity with tact and humor

    Not AJ, but that is incredible.
     
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  3. Mill Cove Treasures

    Mill Cove Treasures Well-Known Member

    Amazing. The next story on that link is interesting too.
     
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  4. kyratango

    kyratango Bug jewellery addiction!

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  5. KSW

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    I'm glad you said that as I was thinking the same thing!
     
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  6. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Thank you for thinking of me, Firemandk, I saw it before, and it is stunning.:happy:

    It is also one of the periods in jewellery history I particularly like, because the jewellery often combines old international techniques like early Byzantine niello and cloisonné, with innovations and local styles. How local is often a matter of a lot of research, because in those days jewellery travelled nearly as much as it does now. It is always fascinating. And because jewellery is always so personal, it is such a strong link between people over centuries.
     
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  7. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Absolutely. Which only goes too show, dating hinges and clasps is incredibly difficult.;) Saying something was only invented after such and such a date isn't always true.
    Maybe I should start collecting 1960s matchbooks.:facepalm::hilarious:
     
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  8. KSW

    KSW Well-Known Member

    Just as a game, if this brooch was in front of you, what date would you all have put it at and why?
    I'd have put it late 19thC because of the C but the squiggly hinge would have had me wondering.
     
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  9. kyratango

    kyratango Bug jewellery addiction!

    1960s:facepalm::bag: Riveted brooch system:confused:
     
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  10. KSW

    KSW Well-Known Member

    Lol, Good thing we don't work for the British Museum:hilarious:

    Weird. How did I quote something that isn't there?:confused:
     
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  11. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    I would have thought slightly older than it actually is, ca 700-750ish, because of the bosses, niello, and designs. The C-clasp is the earliest type of clasp, already used for cloak pins etc.
    Rivets were often used to fasten details to early jewellery, so it doesn't really surprise me that much.
     
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  12. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    What, where?:confused:
     
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  13. Darkwing Manor

    Darkwing Manor Well-Known Member

    You never know, they could turn out to be early Anglo-Saxon also! :bored:
     
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  14. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    I had the same reaction; designs keep coming back around. The back construction would have been done last week.
     
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  15. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    :hilarious:
     
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  16. Kathy Anderson

    Kathy Anderson Well-Known Member

    Absolutely "wow." Double spring pin is original, do you think?
     
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  17. Hollyblue

    Hollyblue Well-Known Member

    18-scabbard-pendant-inlaid-garnets-blue-glass-670.jpg grid2.jpg Since they could make this,I don't see them having a problem with a simple pin.
     
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