Featured Art nouveau silver and paste lavaliere pendant

Nothing very fancy this time, but still I love it.
This proves you dont always need diamonds and gold to have beauty.
I stumbled upon this neglected beauty online and payed 4,5€ for it. It was just described as 'silver plated necklace' with some very blurry pictures. It missed its dangle and a paste, and as soon as I got it yesterday I replaced them with what I had laying around.
Might still change the paste and change the pearl to a nice real one at one point but didn't have the right materials so just went with what I have and now I m already wearing it.
Its a sterling silver and paste lavaliere necklace from around 1900.
I believe these were made to imitate the 'good stuff': diamond and gold jewelry that the owner didn't want to take on their travels around the world.
I already have a small collection of these imitation paste jewelry, found for cheap.
Wouldn't mind finding the real deal for peanuts one day though...

 

Isn't that pretty!!

 

Thank you all for the likes!
Silverbell, thank you! I also really love it. It has the very typical 'zweepslag' art nouveau line in its design

 

Love it, Dessert.

Yes, classic AN zweepslag.

As an aside, my British nieces love the Dutch word 'slagroom', which obviously means something entirely different in UK English.
So they order everything with slagroom. (Can't take them anywhere!)

 

AJ thanks for the comment.
Slagroom, thats hilarious.
Will get my American cousin to learn that word next week

 

Prettyyyy!!!! Your repair is perfect for enjoying and wearing it, kudos!

 

Kyratango, thank you! That means a lot coming from you

 

Looks good.

 

Hmm….. slag equates to a fallen woman, and also to a scrote in police slang.

 

Oh dear. I'd imagine the original doesn't involve ladies of purchaseable virtue.

 

Obb, Dutch is such a fun language. I m so grateful I can help you understand some of it!
'Zweepslag-motief': its a typical invention of the Belgian art nouveau architect Victor Horta: a curving line: like a whip, frozen in time an instant before it smaches.
Difficult to explain, easy to show:

 

Whiplash design is the correct translation.
Art nouveau whiplash design. Its all over if you know it.
Also, Belgium being the birth place of the art nouveau, its definitely worth a visit
(Have a small tourist business)

 

That's the one my nieces mean.
Slagroom is whipped cream, but they enjoy ordering it with anything, just to say slagroom.

I don't think Americans get the joke, it is more of a British thing.
As they say, the US and the UK are divided by a common language.

 

Love the Horta house, I could definitely live there (without the tourists).

En, wat schuift het?

 

AJ, I would also love to live in the Horta house. I would NOT love to renovate it/keep up with all the repairs though.

The small tourist business is our main 'job' so I would say it provides enough for us to live modestly

 

Wonderful. So you'll be able to advise me on a nice hotel and show me around if I ever visit your beautiful city again. I've seen the usual sights, but you'll know those special places.

I used to be a tour guide when I was in my 20s, to supplement the income from my shop. I did mostly local and regional tours, but sometimes I was hired for special nation-wide tours for multi-national companies.

 

I wonder if a lot of confused Star Trek fans end up going there! (the Horta was a famous Star Trek "alien".)

 

Tour guide is a nice job, IMO. In my teens I wished to become tour guide but mom was not agree, she insisted on Maths. So Maths it was. Now I take a lot of pleasure in showing guests around and explaining about landmarks in BG.

 

Quite possible. Although I think it is marked and explained who's house it is on Google map.

 

I never trained as a tour guide, I basically did what you do.
My initial training was in PR, and I have always loved culture and history. I was asked by someone at the tourist office who had heard about me, because I knew a lot about our region and a fair bit about the rest of the country, and I "looked representative" (her words).
Later I studied theology.