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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 1268358, member: 2844&quot;]it is a stunner, amazing colour.</p><p><br /></p><p>My thinking, made for the local market, more specifically a region where they wore regional dress. I can see this as a centrepiece on a bodice.</p><p><br /></p><p>Austro-Hungarian! The traditions used for precious materials were copied on non-precious materials.</p><p>For a long time the aristocracy of the south German, Austrian and Bohemian lands prohibited the wearing of jewellery by the people. When the &#039;common folk&#039; were finally allowed to wear jewellery, they copied the fashions of the aristocracy, albeit in cheaper materials.</p><p>In some Central European regions gemstones were still reserved for the aristrocracy even after the jewellery ban was lifted, which is why the Bohemian glass bead industry got such a boost. Around the time your brooch was made there were no more restrictions, but Bohemian jewellery had already become a brand name in the Western world.</p><p>You see those backs on a lot of old Bohemian costume jewellery, and some Czech as well.</p><p>This is the tradition it came from, the back of an Austro-Hungarian silver, citrin and pearl brooch:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]217117[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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