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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 435828, member: 5833&quot;]Looks like you got some chips off the old blocks.</p><p><br /></p><p>I agree with kyra, basically a dendritic agate-type stone, especially in the center, with some other geologic process going on farther out that created the swirls.&nbsp; Agate defies our attempts to classify it into neat, discrete, categories.&nbsp; The Victorians, with their curio cabinets, made jewellery using all kinds of pretty and/or interesting stones that were not the usual gemstones.&nbsp; &#039;Bullseye&#039; agates were almost their own genre.&nbsp; Like people everywhere it seems, they also like cornelian (the Brits use the original name) jewellery, &amp; this fits both bills.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unless the marks contradict me, I would guess later Victorian, going by the way the hinge looks like it has a piece that exerts slight pressure on the pin stem when closed, helping it to stay that way, &amp; causing it to pop up a little when released.&nbsp; Very pretty piece.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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