Featured Bits and Pieces, Help with ID + Show and Tell

Afternoon everyone! Monday's are my jewelry days during the vide grenier season, and a lot of brooches came today as well so its been a fun ID, photograph, and listing session!

Came across this fun little brooch. Suprisingly several come up on google lens, but of course prices range from 25-455. One listing said 1920s, I don't know how accurate that is. It was a euro so it came home!



These cute photo lockets came in the mail, its unfortunate the gentleman is cracked but its fun anyway.



This isn't even low grade silver which surprised me, but its got some age and I like the droplets! 1890s or a bit later perhaps?





ID SECTION:

Now I need some help. These filigree brooches are hard to date and I never know when those backs came into play. 19th century?



This I found yesterday for 3 euros. I think its cool, its HEAVY, I'm thinking 1960s or 70s?

The problem is when I lensed it, it came up with D'Orlan as the maker. Would be nice but its not marked and that crown/hat is the wrong color. So its either a knock off or someone else started doing the exact same design?




And finally, these beads. Its not long enough for anything, so I'm guessing a necklace broke and they kept the beads, or perhaps for a child? No idea, anyway my question is are these wedding cake beads? I thought they were, but looking them up I can't find any remotely in the same design.



Thanks for looking!​

 

The 'silver' mark is an older one, maybe 1930s-40s or so.
It is the Lincoln Imp, a Medieval stone carving of a grotesque in Lincoln cathedral. It has become the symbol of Lincoln, so tourist shops sell all sorts of Lincoln Imp souvenirs.

 

The Lincoln Imp as it sits in between two arches inside the cathedral:



Lincoln Cathedral, one of England's famous Gothic Cathedrals:

 

In regards to the beads, are they plastic or glass or a mix? Just out of curiosity, if glass, did you put a black light on them??

 

The hinge and style are later, 1910s imo. Late Arts and Crafts style.

 

The imp might be twenties even. Mass tourism and all that.

the locket with the applied top looks Victorian.

Agree on the blue drops, early twentieth.

Those filigree backs are tricky, still sometimes used like that. They’re easy to make.

I think Nefertiti is d’Orlan. I’ve got unmarked pieces.

Nice beads, those.

 

How cute! Now I know the name, thank you!

Early 20th on the drop brooch, gotcha.

That would be great if she was OBB! D'Orlan seems to go for a bit and a half online.

Yes the beads are lovely aren't they. Let me get a photo of them through some light!

 

They're definitely all glass. I didn't get a great photo but it does show how they react to a back light.

 

One letter makes a difference.

 

LOL okay let me go take some more photos

 

WAIT.....is this what I think it is?

 

Glass? Yes, it is.

 

Uranium glass? Or am I barking up the wrong tree?

 

Isn't that green?
Disclaimer: I am no glass expert.

 

Clearly me either lol!

it does look mostly green, but there are some shades...



@laura9797 why did you ask about black light? I'm really curious now haha

 

I think that’s manganese glass.

 

I think we have a winner!

https://www.antiquers.com/threads/chinese-long-orange-glass-beads.74894/#post-4830371

What does this mean for age etc?

 

THey may have been strung that way to be sold as beads to be made into something else. Wedding cake beads can be pricy and always were. They could have been strung that way in the factory.