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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RachelW, post: 9525656, member: 15376&quot;]<p style="text-align: center">I had a very successful vide grenier hunt today! Nothing for resale, but lots that I&#039;m happy to have in my collection. After my little pin turning out to be black dot I&#039;ve been on the hunt for similar unassuming pieces and found quite a few today, this time with all their stones in!</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">I&#039;m really excited about two of these pieces <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie99" alt=":woot:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">First up this pretty pretty brooch that I got for 1 euro. The more I look at it the more I&#039;m mesmerized by its quality. Its also different from the others because it doesn&#039;t have the claw/prong setting. It very unfortunately is missing its clasp, so until I can lovingly repair it at some point it will stay off of my clothes. Similar pieces on 1stDibs were dated to circa 1820s.</p> <p style="text-align: center">I tried researching it, but I can&#039;t find anything about paste with multiple black dots, is there any significance to this? Is this possibly silver?</p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]452248[/ATTACH] </p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]452249[/ATTACH] </p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]452250[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]452251[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]452252[/ATTACH] </p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">Next, this one is similar to my first brooch I posted sometime in July, like that one this was also 1 euro, but its got all its parts! Can the claw setting help date this?</p> <p style="text-align: center">What intrigues me is the hinge. To me it looks most like a machine made hinge than a tube/earlier mechanism. The pin is quite loose on its hinge. Is this a later repair? But then the pin is long which is right for the period...</p> <p style="text-align: center">I&#039;d like to put this at early Victorian/mid 19th, is this correct?</p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]452280[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]452281[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]452282[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]452283[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]452284[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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