On the employment thing. In London, and I’m thinking Hatton garden, it wasn’t uncommon for Jewish diamond merchants to employ trusted...
I’ve never heard of that one. It does look like it would consort well with a Brown Betty teapot.
Whole thing please!
Hah, I’ve a half one very similar. Yes, art deco and genuine.
This is a most fascinating thread.
Closure at the back, definitely.
The other side would be one of those clever round knots, the name of which escapes me. Something head. Oh I know. Turks head knot.
It’s Persian, that white on copper is typical so are the peacocks.
I was thinking a plaque which had been bent?
You’re most welcome, that’s a nice haul.
It would have been one of a pair, and yes, on the neckline.
Mappin and Webb will add value. Without that, these are nice, but standard.
The garnets look Bohemian and yes, late nineteenth into early twentieth. Probably silver. That dark red flower may also be garnet a bit later,...
Nice dress clip.
Hm. Very Devon clay.
That lustre and colour was big here in the fifties. Heaven only knows who made it!
Hm. I wonder if this started life as something else.
I’ve got a collar necklace made with aquamarine chips somewhere. I’d say this is older with that construction, maybe sixties even.
Your description is spot on, and I’d have bought that just for the nice beads alone,
Glass or lucite, not Opal though.
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