Featured Some more jewelry from the same lot as the last cpl posts. Necklaces & pin

This funky necklace is pretty dang cool imo.I’ve got no clue on its origins. When I see this type of chain it’s usually gold filled but this one isn’t marked at all. The back looks almost like something you’d see in India. I’ll guess Czech though?

Cameo looks real. I didn’t take a loupe to it though. Pearls are fake. Stones I’m unsure, guessing glass. No marks.

Owl and horseshoe I LOVE. Guessing just good luck thing but maybe an organizations logo? Assuming American or UK here.

 

First piece looks made by Patrice Jewelry.

 

The helmet shell cameo is of Psyche. My guess would be 1930s for the whole piece.

 

Yee doggy. It does look that way! Thanks for both of the ID’s!

 

ummmm, ahhhhhh......errrrrrr....

there are those who say that the owl is a messenger from the spirit world....or worse.....
Some others say it's a good omen.. ( a select few others....)

while an upside-down horseshoe , it's been said....will have the luck run out thru the open ends....

sell it to someone else.....

 

The Victorian style pendant may have had the clasp replaced. Victorian Revival. That cameo does look Czech. I love the wol. Early 20th.

 

I also like very much the owl. In our part of the world owl is a symbol of wisdom and fortune, also intuition and personal improvement. One of the representations of the Greek goddess Athena Palada is an owl, it is also a symbol of Athens (the capital of Greece).
I found recently a brass owl I fell in love with. I am sure it has no value but looks to me as if the bird is alive and is watching me with her big wise eyes.

 

I adore owls, and buy them whatever. One of my family members runs a bird of prey sanctuary. I once saw what I thought was an owl statue in their garden. Then, it moved and spread its wings. It was one of these:

 

Onedbybear, gorgeous creature! What does it mean "bird of prey sanctuary"? They keep birds of prey they found wounded or somehow in trouble, and after healing and taking proper care release them? Or something else?
There were several owls living in a tall pine tree near my place, they used to spend the day on the very top of the tree, sleeping. Used to watch them, then they disappeared I live very close to a big park and guess they changed their living place. At least I hope so, that nothing bad happened to them.

 

Care for them, breed them and sometimes use for falconry. They're not generally released into the wild, they're too vulnerable usually. Owls do move on, sometimes.

 

Thank you for your patience and effort to explain, Ownedbybear, I understand. Yes, it is a problem for animals born in captivity, to be in the wild, they cannot survive. If they are to be released, special training is needed from early age to prepare them for it.

 

It is indeed. Family does a great deal of proper falconry, which is wonderful.

 

I too thought the lobster claw looked out of place, so went to check the Patrice necklace I have stashed away. Mine uses that same belcher chain, but only as a single strand, long enough to go over the head without opening, so has no clasp at all. However, this one, double stranded like OP's, has the same findings:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1360066043

 

Found this dead link owl in horseshoe on rubylane https://www.pinterest.com/pin/vintage--148900331410355208/

 

That Patrice aint cheap !....real owl's better though-beautiful pic.

 

Since it says 'Athens' on it, presumably a souvenir.

 

Owl pendants were popular here for a few years, and then came back a few years ago. Y'all would have been in own heaven. I have one that lives in my yard; I hear it at night but never see it. There are a fair number of mice and squirrels in the area. Or were.(heh heh heh .. owl food?)

 

Lark, spot on!
IMO, quite possible that the brooch is Greek and represents Athena Palada, the goddess.

 

Owls are potentially the most fascinating bird. My folks have some living in the woods behind their place. Heard often, seen infrequently. You do see them though if you keep your eyes open. Rarely well though. One day I was metal detecting a long overgrown former cart path in the woods of a very historic US town. I went right up until dark and past that. As I called it quits and began the walk back to the road and my car a spooky feeling fell over the woods. The older the town the more it often does. I began to imagine myself as being in the 17th or 18th century as a resident who had to make their way down the path on foot at night and what the woods must have felt like then. At that point I enjoyed an occasional tobacco smoke. I would always leave a bit of tobacco behind me on the path to appease any forest spirits who may be on my tail. Lol. Another thing I would do as I got a few minutes from the road was smack the broadside of the back of my shovel against a tree. This would hopefully dislodge most of the now hopefully dry dirt off my shovel before it went in my trunk. That night I picked a young but stout enough tree by moonlight. The ground was very wet where I was digging so I smacked the tree extra hard. This put quite a shock in the owl that had apparently been watching me from not far above. I honestly don’t recall if it screeched or not but I want to say it did. It then swooped down nearly brushing my face to fly off to a new roost. This in turn gave me a bigger shock. I picked up my pace and breathed a sigh of relief when I saw the clearing of the road beyond the last branches. The things that go bump in the night really seem a bit spookier in the dark woods. In daylight you can’t imagine anything to be afraid of, at night alone in the woods you can imagine many things, just as they must have way back when. That was the closest I got to an owl.

 

The city or the goddess? They are spelt in the same way in Greek.