Featured Some pins for review

I have a rare day off so taking advantage and posting a few things for your comments age, quality one needs repair and wondering about material of the long clear/white one. Is the tiny one a lingerie pin? Thank you

 

Which one's the tiny one?

I'm in for the green one, if you're giving them away.

 

. The one that loops like safety pin blue

 

The last one, are those all cracks I see on the back of the stone, or are they filaments within it?

 

How tiny is the tiny one?
I bought a skirt in the 70's that came with a safety pin on it to keep the slit closed.
Just throwing out some ideas.

 

The last two look like lingerie pins -the ones you used to keep your bra straps from showing. The first three look Victorian, and the longer the pin stem the older the pin.

 

. It is very hard and cold1.5 inch. Very smooth

the other pin with blue about an inch. Thank you

 

Maybe stock tie pins? (this is what happens when you have horses in your head)

 

First two are late 19th, that looks amethyst. Green is a bit later: the hinge tells the story as does that almost aesthetic squared off design. I'd think not long after WW1, transitioning to Art Deco. 1910s.

 

They say this one is 15 Ct so might be worth testing if you don't know about yours.

https://www.mrallan.co.uk/product/15-carat-gold-knot-bar-brooch/

 

About where I'd put it too 1900-1910-ish, back when bar pins were still a thing. The white lingirie pin could be glass and might even be jade if the setting is gold. More likely agate though if it's not glass.

 

Good point on the testing, so much is unmarked. There's a name for that design, I've forgotten it. It's something around a bundle of sticks being stronger than single.

 

Not fasces?

 

No, although they're similar. Bother my brain!

 

There is an Aesop's fable about strength in a bundle of sticks though I don't know if it relates to a name for a pin. In unity is strength.

http://read.gov/aesop/040.html

 

A cord of three strands is not quickly torn apart. -Solomon. Just don't ask me for the exact chapter/verse in Proverbs. Might even have been a wedding brooch.