Featured Egyptian jewelry mark/hallmark

Just found this little pin/brooch in a big bag lot from an auction a couple years ago. It’s Egyptian in origin. Had been saving the bag for a rainy day at my families home. Nothing like an un-searched bag of jewelry when you need a little thrill, lol. Have gone through a couple handfuls while visiting the last couple nights. I actually have some Egyptian silver and some Egyptian gold so I’m somewhat familiar with their hallmarks. This one I’m unsure. It looks like it could be low purity gold. I know they are known for using high purity gold so not sure what to think there. It could be a vermeil type process I guess. It could just be a date or maker mark? It looks like a 300 but may not be. It’s not a full set of hallmarks that’s for sure. Any help appreciated.

 

It looks like gilt brass to me, which wouldn't be marked. I think Davey is right, it looks like a number. Probably a manufacturer's code, either for the model of the brooch, or for the pin.
Period probably 1920s-30s.

 

The Isis stamp was introduced in 1921-22, the other stamp had already been in use a few years earlier.
Needless to say, the stamps on your brooch are interpretations of the actual stamps, but it is post 1921-22.

https://www.stampworld.com/stamps/Egypt/Postage stamps/1866-2021?page=3

 

I thought it was Isis. But of course Egyptian kings and queens were deified.

 

I don't know how you waited so long to dive into that bag of jewelry!!!
I usually do it in the car immediately after paying!

 

It's interesting that the maker didn't just use real stamps.

 

Maybe it was prohibited to use them for anything other than postal.

 

Doesn't seem likely. Pictorial stamps such as these were produced with collectors in mind pretty much from the time that stamps were first introduced.

Here's the whole series (from eBay):

 

I thought it was Hathor.

 

I think the enamel would probably hold up better.

 

Thanks! I meant to mention the orientation could be wrong!

 

Gilt brass makes sense! I figured that was the approximate era. Another post somewhere online mentioned they were sold by a museum gift shop in Egypt. Not sure if that can be verified but I’ll check more into it.

 

Ha! It was part of a literal van full of auction winnings I had to drop off there. Meant to buy a little gold/silver that would fit in my pocket. Instead I filled a van. I’m pretty patient though. As soon as I put one thing down I buy another so there’s always something new to look at anyway.

 

I'm not so sure about the 1; looks like the inner edge of the cartouche to me.

 

This could be an explanation why she doesn't look like Cleopatra, who was after all Ptolemaeic, so Macedonian:

"During her reign in Egypt, Cleopatra strongly connected herself to the Egyptian goddess Isis. This served to legitimize her rule and to connect her with the native religion of her people."
https://scholarship.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/handle/10066/21507

Can't imagine a Macedonian queen being bare-chested though. I suppose that would be artistic licence....

 

I meant, not allowed to be used as decoration on souvenirs etc. Stamp collectors buy them as stamps, not as brooches.

 

Not in many generations. Have to imagine Cleopatra VII was well integrated, if not assimilated, into Egyptian ways.

Although her allure is legendary, as nearly as we can tell, she was not a beauty. A gal has to have her little tricks.