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Message:: [QUOTE="Ownedbybear, post: 9611228, member: 29"]The stones look old paste, but the hinge and clasp do look early twentieth, so it makes sense they’ve been added on. It wasn’t designed as a brooch, either, too heavy and stands too proud. The ones designed as proper dual purpose ones have neat bales qhich tuck in.  I’d agree it was a pendant, once. It’s too fussy for early  Georgian, they’d not have put the cap bit over the stone. And I don’t think it’s meant to be an acorn, that’s a crown on top. I’d say late Georgian into early Victorian. Pin added much later, and using non silver is right, later brooches had metal pins for strength. I’d test the stones. Soft brush or a can of compressed air with caution. Then some spray window cleaner on a toothbrush.[/QUOTE]