Featured Flower Bouquet Brooch Bone/Ivory flowers

I nearly passed over this brooch as being uninteresting but had a second look.
It’s not uninteresting at all as all the flowers are dyed carved bone or ivory. I thought bone but the lines on the red petals made me wonder if it’s ivory.
Any ideas of the age please with that long pin? English?
Total length is around 2”.
Thanks for looking

 

A lot of damage there. It must have been very handsome when new.

 

Older than dirt from the looks of it. We can't see the back but I suspect much older than the 1930s the front suggests at first.

 

Sorry, I don’t know where the photo of the back disappeared too! I’ll add it now.

 

I left them sitting in the camera roll

 

@kyratango would you chip off all the damaged green on the leaves and then carefully repaint or just leave gold coloured?Its not enamel, it’s something much softer.

 

That's late 19th.

 

Might be letters? Thought I could see RG and maybe some others??

 

Ditto.

 

The poor thing needs a good cleaning

 

Yes definitely, it’s very sad. I am considering the options of how to clean it without causing more damage!

 

I’d first try to carefully remove the red flowers, (yep, stained ivory) in order to clean the whole brooch. First with soapy water and a paint brush.
The paint may be either scraped, either removed with acetone. I’d try to repaint in green rather than leaving the leaves bright metal
Bon courage!

 

The whole thing looks a little bit squished to me.

 

When you're 120+ you'll be a little squished too. I saw a piece of a tube hinge in the original images.

 

I’ll get a better photo of the hinge tomorrow

Thanks everyone I suspected it was quite elderly. I’ll see what I can do to spiff her up a bit.

 

It's lovely. I hope you can bring it back to life. And tell us about it later!

 

Thankyou Fig I will do. She’s in my to do pile!

 

I hope your to-do pile isn't as big as mine. Work for several lifetimes.

 

I figure a giant work pile is a guarantee of immortality. Right?

 

Yes!
I too have enough to last a very long time….