Fishie is Chinese, and a fairly common design. Nice though.
Preserves, jam or sugar. Isn't that pretty.
Second one says the equivalent of INRI in Cyrillic, I think. Fifties or so. I do like that US Army one. WW2, and I wonder what his story was.
Agreed: I suspect my second one is early 20th maybe and the first, like yours is 30s or so.
I knew I had another one! The setting is quite different, but the cameos are the same kind of rather crude carving. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
Got it. Not as similar as I'd remembered, but this is mine: I'm wondering if there's another somewhere. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Stylistically, the brooch is rather like some Arts and Crafts stuff here.
The beads are Italian, as Ruth says. Not sommerso, but clear cased and aventurine spattered.
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