Featured Box 1 incl. silver broches

I did it, It's not very strong but i can smell the fragrance. Perhaps its real amber. But i have ordered the uv Light you mentioned, so when its delivered i'll performance the uv test

 

Ik denk dat de lichtinval is die je doet denken dat er stukjes emaille missen . Alle steentjes en emaille zit onder de glazen oppervlakte.

 

Smelling the scent is good, that means amber. I just looked copal up, it becomes soft when you rub it. So my vote goes to amber.

You can also do the UV test on the red stones in the first two brooches. See if they fluoresce (change colour significantly).

 

Bedankt voor de uitleg, het is moeilijk als je het sieraad niet zelf in de hand hebt.

Hi 2022 just explained that what looked to me like missing stones in the brooch below is an optical illusion.

 

Just an explanation for @Hi2022 , because the literal translation of rhinestone is 'rijnkiezel', which in Dutch terms is genuine rock crystal from the Rhine region:

'Rhinestones' is de Amerikaanse term voor kristalletjes, het is dus geen echte steen. Ze krijgen soms een extra laagje voor het effect, in dit geval heet dat 'Aurora Borealis'.

 

AB Rhinestones were invented by Swarovski in 1955.

 

UV light was delivered today. no idea if I'm operating the flashlight correctly and what should be done... but ok. here are the pictures. it didn't turn out to be pretty pictures. very difficult to operate the camera and use the flashlight at the same time

 

You did it perfectly. I also struggle with taking photos and holding the light.
The amber has the right fluorescence for amber. An extra confirmation after the scent test.
The red stone looks like glass, which is what I expected.

Have you tried the stone in the filigree brooch yet?

 

If it was real gem, what shoud i see when use the uv-light? , the second is the blue stone

 

The red ones looked like glass, and glass they are. The blue one probably is glass too. Real, clear blue stones at that time were generally expensive. Irradiated blue topaz didn't come along until the 1980s. In American, rhinestone = glass. They get called diamante glass in the UK sometimes. Clear quartz bits are "rock crystal" instead of "crystal".

 

It depends on the stone. But a stone like a ruby fluoresces. Since you wondered if the filligree brooch had a ruby, you now know.

Expensive stones are usually found in expensive jewellery.

They are usually called paste in the UK. Here in the Netherlands we call it kristalletjes.
Rock crystal is bergkristal.

 

I thought paste was a specific sort of older glass. Maybe it used to be.

 

Paste is both specific and generic in the UK. It's now widely used to simply mean jewellery with non precious cut glass stones, diamante to be slightly fancier. But it also in antique terms means good old glass stones, polished with powder. There's a particular kind called black dot paste, which has a dot added to highlight the sparkle. Georgian paste, which I love, has an almost grey tinge to the stones, just as Georgian glass does. Glass didn't get that real white clarity until the recipes changed in the nineteenth century.

That's a good amber glow.

 

Thanks. Meanwhile "powder glass" is understood here to be African recycled glass rather than fancy factory cut or molded pieces.

 

As far as I know powder glass has the same meaning around the world. Powder glass beads are mostly West African.

 

Just to clarify, paste was polished with metal powder, to get a high shine. Not made from, or rolled in powder.

 

That is the way I understood it, but it may not have been clear across the pond. All that water, you see.

 

True.

 

What type of metal powder?

 

Iron oxide, from memory.