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<p>[QUOTE="LucyLocket, post: 9870640, member: 13859"]This brooch was in a lot of mixed jewellery I bought some time ago & I've only just got around to having a proper look at it. The leaves and beads are glass - some beads were pearlised but have lost a lot of their coating. They are threaded on wire which has been wrapped around the base of the basket to secure them. It looks like a marriage to me as I can't imagine it would have originally been sold with the wire showing? The back rim of the basket is flat and the front edge is fluted - the whole thing looks like it has been squashed to make it flatter but if it were pulled back into a proper basket shape (round? oval?) it would look very odd as a brooch - too sticky-outy!</p><p>There is some sort of mark/writing on the trombone clasp but I can't make it out. I've tried magnifying it, enlarging it, changing the image to black & white but just can't see what it is. At first I thought it was just scratches but there are definitely letters - some capitals & some lower case, one looks like an H or an M to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]495339[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]495340[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]495341[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]495342[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]495343[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]495344[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]495345[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]495346[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]495347[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="LucyLocket, post: 9870640, member: 13859"]This brooch was in a lot of mixed jewellery I bought some time ago & I've only just got around to having a proper look at it. The leaves and beads are glass - some beads were pearlised but have lost a lot of their coating. They are threaded on wire which has been wrapped around the base of the basket to secure them. It looks like a marriage to me as I can't imagine it would have originally been sold with the wire showing? The back rim of the basket is flat and the front edge is fluted - the whole thing looks like it has been squashed to make it flatter but if it were pulled back into a proper basket shape (round? oval?) it would look very odd as a brooch - too sticky-outy! There is some sort of mark/writing on the trombone clasp but I can't make it out. I've tried magnifying it, enlarging it, changing the image to black & white but just can't see what it is. At first I thought it was just scratches but there are definitely letters - some capitals & some lower case, one looks like an H or an M to me. [ATTACH=full]495339[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]495340[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]495341[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]495342[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]495343[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]495344[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]495345[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]495346[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]495347[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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