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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dessert58, post: 9750546, member: 78465&quot;][ATTACH=full]478491[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]478490[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]478489[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]478488[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]478487[/ATTACH] I had another amazing find this week.</p><p>Look what arrived today: a real treasure, a Flemish Heart.</p><p>I bought it for a really good price.</p><p>It has nice size rose cut diamonds and senailles, set in a closed setting with foil behind.</p><p>2 tiny senailles are missing, but all the rest of them are there.</p><p>As I already mentioned in a previous post about these: the silver is all hand cut out of a metal sheet and the settings of the diamonds are souldered onto that.</p><p>This one has a &#039;pijlbekroning&#039;: arrows on top, a love trophy.</p><p>The diamond in the middle represents Saint Mary with her 10 virtues around it (Mine misses a tiny senaille there so only 9 virtues) <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/biggrin.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":D" unselectable="on" /></p><p>These were usually a gift from children to their mothers around the 15th of August in the Antwerp region (St Mary ascension day?).</p><p>I m currently still working on deciphering the marks, the one I could already decipher is a French boars head (1838-now).</p><p>I would date this heart around 1850.</p><p>For comparison I can show you another Flemish Heart with arrows, that one is&nbsp; a bit simpler from construction.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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