Featured Unusual sterling filigree brooch

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  1. Ratsy Brown

    Ratsy Brown Well-Known Member

    Hello

    Hoping someone can help ID this silver brooch. Only mark is STERLING.

    Apologies for the shoddy photos, I have just put my photography things away.

    4cm widest part. 9cm drop.

    Thanks

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  2. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

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  3. judy

    judy Well-Known Member

    Norwegian Solje................
     
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    judy Well-Known Member

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  5. Hollyblue

    Hollyblue Well-Known Member

    It's a marriage... Luckenbooth brooch with filigree added at some stage.
     
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  6. judy

    judy Well-Known Member

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    judy Well-Known Member

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  8. judy

    judy Well-Known Member

    Proper spelling............
    Sølje
     
    judy, Jul 12, 2021
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  9. judy

    judy Well-Known Member

    @Any Jewelry does own a few gorgeous pieces......if I remember correctly.

    I have a couple too.
     
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  10. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Judy is right (of course), it is a Norwegian sølje brooch. This particularly sølje brooch is called a Mary sølje, or something similar. @DragonflyWink can probably give the correct name.

    The sterling mark makes me think it could have been made by Norwegian migrants, or possibly in Norway for export. Cheryl will know more about that too.
    You do, and I do.:happy:

    A sølje brooch is not a marriage, but originally worn at a marriage.;)
    The heart shape is related to Scottish luckenbooth hearts, it was once a common shape for jewellery throughout Europe. Søljes come in different shapes though.
    The spoon-shaped dangles served as little mirrors to ward of evil. They are typical of many Norwegian søljes.
     
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  11. judy

    judy Well-Known Member

    Geeze you're smart!!!!:):):)
     
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  12. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    I have my moments.:joyful:
     
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  13. judy

    judy Well-Known Member

    I'm so glad to know you at any moment!:cat:
     
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  14. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    :kiss:
     
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  15. judy

    judy Well-Known Member

    Backatcha!
     
    judy, Jul 12, 2021
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  16. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    By the way, the reason I added "of course" after I wrote "Judy is right", is because Judy never just assumes something. When she identifies something, it is because she knows it to be so. That is Judy.:happy: And this is what I know to be so.:)
     
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  17. judy

    judy Well-Known Member

    You're so very kind AJ!

    Tack sa mycket!
     
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  18. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    I've got a solje AND a few luckenbooths! Related, as aj says, in that both have hearts.
     
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  19. Hollyblue

    Hollyblue Well-Known Member

    I am more familiar with Luckenbooths,but I have made a couple Norwegian Solje reproductions from this photo we found in a Norwegian town in Texas.

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  20. kyratango

    kyratango Bug jewellery addiction!

    :facepalm:This is not a Sølje :joyful:
     
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