Featured Horse & fruit/veg cart brooch

Very cute brooch.
I think the fruit is wax? Amazing it has survived!
Is this likely 1920s with the trombone clasp?
C2.5” long
Thanks for any thoughts

 

I've had baskets of flowers like that too, complete with trombones. My thinking has been 30s and French.

 

Thanks, I wasn’t too far off then
Are your flower baskets wax too?

 

One is glass, that's the one I kept. The other was a sort of moss and wax thing, nowhere near as good a state as yours.

 

What a neat piece! Do you think it’s silver?

 

@KSW, LOVE your little horse & cart with flowers!! I took your 3rd image down and 'digitally' tried to lighten it up....enlarging didn't help, but de-saturating any color out of it did....a bit....you have it in hand, so you can tell better than I, especially if you have a good eye and a loupe.....it looks to me like there's small numbers and writing in several places.....if you want me to, I can mark where, unless you're pretty sure you DO or DON'T see anything!!!!!

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Oh that’s clever Aqui, I’ll look with a loupe! Thankyou.

 

I don’t know as my silver acid has gone off and stopped working. It does look like it but it could also be base metal. When I get new acid I will update.

 

I like the cauliflower on mine with the green raffia stuff around it.

 

That is so sweet.

Should we be worried?

 

I'm never buying 2 bottles together again, had to throw away 3/4 of one and a full of the other

Don't know if I got a bad batch when I bought some, but doesn't seen to last well at all

 

Mine usually last about a year, but now I have a miracle bottle that keeps giving. I think I've had it for 4-5 years, and it is still good.