Featured Antique sycamore brooch Austro-Hungarian?

Browsing the internet with all its dangers I came across this opal sycamore brooch and wondered about it as it appears old with the long pin. Looks like brass but not easy to see.
Googled for similar and came up with the one below which is silver, slightly different and in much better condition. Do you think they are right in saying Austro Hungarian or are they two different beasts?. Sorry there aren’t any more photos. Not mine just interested.
Thankyou for looking


This one from google

 

Ssymbol for strength and protection. Victorians loved that sort of thing.

 

Not specially Austro Hungarian style, but can be made there
Yours seems brass, but it has real opals!
I love it! Mp me if you list it

 

It is Art Nouveau, and it is gorgeous.
The one in the google ad is probably marked, otherwise you wouldn't know it is AH. AH Art Nouveau is called Sezession (Secession), btw, not Jugendstil.

They are going on a bit about irrelevant things, aren't they?
In Dutch we use the German term Jugendstil, although the French term Art Nouveau is gaining popularity. The nickname was 'spaghetti en slaoliestijl', after a well-known 1893 advertisement by Dutch-Indonesian artist Jan Toorop. He modeled his people after Javanese Wayang puppets.
The ad was for salad oil, and people thought the hair looked like spaghetti.

 

KSW, did they provide a photo of the back?

Kind of reminds me of this mistletoe pin, I bought it thinking it was brass and after much cleaning was happy to find out it was 14k

An eBay boardie very kindly IDed the teeny, tiny mark in the C clasp as an "Austro-Hungarian import mark for gold used from 1872-1902. The A on the left of the mark would be the assay office (Vienna)."





An illustration I did of the mark:

 

Woahh! @KSW is there any mark on your brooch?

 

It’s not mine yet and that was the only photo. Fingers crossed it will stay in my price bracket but I’m not holding my breath!.

 

Thanks @Any Jewelry for this cool art history lesson!
I love learning more about how culture, art and history are all intertwined.

 

I won the auction! £35 + auctioneers fees so hopefully even if it’s not as interesting as it looks the coral necklace will nearly cover my costs fingers crossed.

 

THat's a cut steel brooch, too.

 

in Austria this would have been called Jugendstil in general. there was a group of artists in Vienna that split off from different art schools and were later know as Wiener Secession - always with a c and never with a z.

 

Yay! Congratulations! Nice looking lot.

 

Looks like marcasites to me, we will have to wait and see when KSW gets them in hand

 

To me too.

 

The earrings look marcasite, but the brooch not, to my eye. Let's see!

 

Either way it's pretty

 

I’ll update when it arrives!

 

I didn’t pay much attention to the intertwined brooch and the earrings and assumed marcasite. Would be a bonus if cut steel. Fingers crossed that there is a nice clasp on the coral necklace. The photographer didn’t run to actually getting ALL of the items completely in the picture!

 

Fingers crossed! That's a nice lot!