A LATE VICTORIAN ROSE-CUT DIAM0ND, DEMANTOID GARNET AND PEARL LACE-PIN, the twin pearl-set gold chains suspending two diamond and demantoid garnet winged insect brooches with opal-set heads and engraved gold legs, mounted in silver and gold, circa 1900, in fitted case tooled in gold with initials and date 1941

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A LATE VICTORIAN ROSE-CUT DIAM0ND, DEMANTOID GARNET AND PEARL LACE-PIN, the twin pearl-set gold chains suspending two diamond and demantoid garnet winged insect brooches with opal-set heads and engraved gold legs, mounted in silver and gold, circa 1900, in fitted case tooled in gold with initials and date 1941
Each brooch 2.5cm. wide

Lot Essay

INDENTCf. Hinks op.cit. p.47 for a similar brooch illustrated in the 1901 catalogue of the Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Company Ltd

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