Featured Garnet Purchases off of Ebay This Month (repairs)

Just showing a few bits and pieces!

Got one step closer to completing a (mismatch) parure of garnet jewelry with this brooch.



I also won a lot of loose garnets and broken jewelry to repair things I find along the way for cheap.

These are the bits I'd like to repair from the lot itself. The coin is from 1841, from the setting of the stones I think the pendant is around the same time?



Wierdly, what I thought was a brooch looks like it should slot into the bracelet, they both have things that fit into each other, but they don't fit at all.



This poor thing is gorgeous but I have no idea how I could make it better

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It is folk/ethnic jewellery, which means it is difficult to date. They often used older coins, and the old techniques of mounting stones were continued longer than in fashionable towns and cities.

 

I think it's a coin of the Holy Roman Empire, from what I can see here. I'd guess the pin could be 40 years later than the coin, if some jeweler though it looked good.

 

It is a Ferdinand I 20 Kreuzer coin of the Habsburg / Austro-Hungarian empire, so a few decades after the Holy Roman Empire.
Bohemia was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire and is named on the coin, along with Austria and Hungary, in this text: FERD I D G AVSTR IMP HVNG BOH R H N V.

 

Ferdinand I looked very different from the image on the coin. Poor guy.

"Possibly as a result of his parents' genetic closeness (they were double first cousins), Ferdinand had hydrocephalus, neurological problems including epilepsy, and a speech impediment."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_I_of_Austria

 

Holy (Roman) reasons for a swelled head! He looks like his Spanish cousins, poor thing.