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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 690386, member: 2844&quot;]The filigree brooch is lovely, the combination of those Arab lozenges and the raised rosette could be Palestinian.</p><p><br /></p><p>The filigree bracelet is from the town of Kota Gede on Java, Indonesia. They make some of the best filigree in the world.</p><p>Kota Gede silver is also called Djokja/Yogja silver, after the nearby city of Yogyakarta.</p><p>My guess for the date is late 1960s, when those overlapping panels were made a lot, and they had already switched from .800 to .925 as their main silver fineness.</p><p>Those lozenges are also found in Indonesia, possibly due to thousands of years of trade and an influential Hadrami Yemeni Arab minority.</p><p>They still make similar bracelets, here is one in the same overlap style, and with the same clasp:</p><p><a href="http://kotagedesilver.com/barang/detail/Sweet_Bracelet_VIII" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://kotagedesilver.com/barang/detail/Sweet_Bracelet_VIII" rel="nofollow">http://kotagedesilver.com/barang/detail/Sweet_Bracelet_VIII</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The way they make filigree in Kota Gede:</p><p><a href="https://elementsunearthed.com/2017/12/13/the-silversmiths-of-kota-gede/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://elementsunearthed.com/2017/12/13/the-silversmiths-of-kota-gede/" rel="nofollow">https://elementsunearthed.com/2017/12/13/the-silversmiths-of-kota-gede/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The brass brooch is lovely, and I am sure it will polish up beautifully. The style is late 19th century imo.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hope your baby gets well soon, plenty of tlc from a loving mom works wonders.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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