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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lucille.b, post: 10147672, member: 51&quot;]First off, great piece!</p><p><br /></p><p>It wouldn&#039;t be suffragette just based on design which is 1960s or later, unless the designer was doing it as a homage or something.</p><p><br /></p><p>At 1oz for a 3 inch brooch,&nbsp; those large flowers could be glass (or quartz as suggested) or carved lucite, a bit hard to tell from the photo, but they do seem to have quality.&nbsp; You can hold the edge of one of the flowers to your cheek and see if the flowers are cold feeling (meaning glass or quartz) best to compare with another plastic/glass piece for temperatures.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your photos are fantastic for detail, but if I can be super picky, so good to show one or two without a flash (maybe natural light) to show colors best.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would be a little surprised if these were real gems, but I&#039;d love to be wrong.&nbsp; One test is to go into a jeweler and ask if the clear stones are diamonds.&nbsp; Most jewelers would do that without charging. That is a quick yes or no and a jeweler can tell you in 5 seconds.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would want to nail down the maker.&nbsp;&nbsp; I could not find anything signed ag in lower case letters, wondering if maybe that second mark holds a clue.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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