Featured Can you tell me anything about this little filigree brooch/pendant?

Discussion in 'Jewelry' started by Elen Beattie, May 25, 2021.

  1. Elen Beattie

    Elen Beattie Well-Known Member

    Hi there! I picked this up today when I was doing my usual thrift store visit. It had been overlooked; not with the fancy bling in the special glass cabinet but hanging sadly with the cheaper stuff on a paper card. I couldn't find any marks until I looked with my loupe and found some on the pin. Can you tell me anything about it? eg. age and origin or what the marks mean? It's pretty small, only 1" across. Thanks for looking!

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    i need help Well-Known Member

    800 Silver
     
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  4. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    I always love these, and just can't stop buying them when I find them cheap. Most are made in the southern Balkans, Southeastern Europe.
    Yours is probably 1950s, with that brooch-pendant combo.
     
  5. Elen Beattie

    Elen Beattie Well-Known Member

  6. Elen Beattie

    Elen Beattie Well-Known Member

    Thank you! I always think older when I see the 'C' clasp, but I really have no clue.
     
  7. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    It is. Probably Adriatic coral, which is Mediterranean red coral.
     
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  8. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    It depends on the region. Some makers, especially in non-Western parts of the world, still use the C-clasp.
     
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    i need help Well-Known Member

    Maybe you can get a photo of the marks through a loupe or magnifying app?
     
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  10. Elen Beattie

    Elen Beattie Well-Known Member

    Interesting I didn't know that, thanks!
     
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  11. Elen Beattie

    Elen Beattie Well-Known Member

    Apologies, these are not the best but the marks are in such an awkward place and the brooch is so small! I really don't know how they stamp this tiny, it's incredible!

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  12. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Perfect photos, Ellen.:)
    The mark on the left is the Yugoslavian chicken (at least that's what I call it) for 800 silver. Yugoslavia was a country in the southern Balkans, now split into several states. According to my information, the mark was used from 1933 until 1992.
     
  13. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    I can't find the mark online, so I'll take a photo of a page in one of my books tomorrow, so you get an idea what the cute little chicken looks like.;) It is late here now.
     
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  14. Elen Beattie

    Elen Beattie Well-Known Member

    You are so helpful, thanks so much!
     
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  15. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    I think I have been calling a rooster a chicken.:confused::chicken: It is cute, whatever it is (love the feet).:)
    Anyway here it is, the mark on the right, the text is in German:

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  16. Elen Beattie

    Elen Beattie Well-Known Member

    Thanks so much for checking!!
     
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