Featured Antique sycamore brooch Austro-Hungarian?

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  1. KSW

    KSW Well-Known Member

    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 :)
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    This one from google
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  2. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

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

    kyratango Bug jewellery addiction!

    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;)
     
  4. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    It is Art Nouveau, and it is gorgeous.:happy:
    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.:playful:

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  5. Marie Forjan

    Marie Forjan Well-Known Member

    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)."

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    An illustration I did of the mark:
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  6. kyratango

    kyratango Bug jewellery addiction!

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

    KSW Well-Known Member

    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!.
     
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  8. stracci

    stracci Well-Known Member

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

    KSW Well-Known Member

    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.
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  10. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    THat's a cut steel brooch, too.
     
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  11. Fid

    Fid Well-Known Member

    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.
     
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  12. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Yay!:singing: Congratulations!:happy: Nice looking lot.
     
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  13. Marie Forjan

    Marie Forjan Well-Known Member

    Looks like marcasites to me, we will have to wait and see when KSW gets them in hand :)
     
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  14. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    To me too.:)
     
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  15. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

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

    Marie Forjan Well-Known Member

    Either way it's pretty :)
     
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  17. KSW

    KSW Well-Known Member

    I’ll update when it arrives!
     
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  18. KSW

    KSW Well-Known Member

    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!
     
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  19. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    Fingers crossed! That's a nice lot!
     
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