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Message:: [QUOTE="lizjewel, post: 4081886, member: 13874"]Sorry, but I don't see any size listed? Is it in the United States, UK, or elsewhere? If I were to guess it's around two and a half to three inches in diameter as these pendants usually were. Workmanship appears to be American, higher end costume jewelry. I doubt it being a suffragette piece even if some of the colors may be tuned to their signature ones. Suffragette jewelry was contemporary with that movement in the early part of the 20th century. This looks to me to be made later, like late 1930s to early 1940s, of Providence, Rhode Island, or Massachusetts production. The mounting is most likely stamped brass with a goldplating that now has worn thin in places. The claw prongs and open-back stones are marks of higher end production as are the ball-end safety clasp and soldered bail. These unsigned pieces were often commissioned by better specialty stores and better made than the average c.j. at the time. They were unsigned specifically so they they couldn't be comparison-shopped in dept stores jewelry depts where the more common signed c.j. was sold. "Unsigned" does not always mean "less quality" in the U.S., it's often the opposite. The finer stores would attach their own labels, such as Neiman-Marcus, Saks 5th Ave, Bonwit Teller, B. Altman, and many others.[/QUOTE]