Large translucent agate with turquoise flowers, origin help ?

Hi All ! I have this large 2" agate set in sterling with scrolling stems and turquoise flowers riveted to the center.
I know it's newer but the only mark is the 925 inside the bale. Any ideas where this was made, India maybe ?

 

There's no real clues. I doubt it's Indian, it's not the style. Might be Indonesian or even from our neck of the woods. I honestly don't think that matters. It will sell on pretty, which it is.

 

Thank you Bear. I haven't been able to bring myself to list it, I wear it quite a bit. It just may have to stay with me.

 

I'd not sell it either, far to wearable and well made, too.

 

Could it be camphor glass? I had a camphor glass brooch that had a very similar delicate vining flower motif on the front like yours with the turquoise beads...early 20th century, I think it was.

I'm trying to find a similar example on google (I wish I had kept my photos along the way). I'll see if I can find one and post it.

 

This one was listed as chalcedony - not sure what the difference is. I wish I could find one with more of the flowering on the front, but this is all I could find.

 

Here is something similar, good photos of the back on this link.

(Found it thanks to TieDye's keyword "chalcedony")

https://www.rubylane.com/item/933844-LK5675/Victorian-Chalcedony-Brooch-Turquoise-Flowers

 

VERY similar, thank you TieDye and Lucy.b. The stone tests in the quartz range and because of the slight banding I assumed agate, but they are all forms of quartz. I'm pretty sure the sterling frame is newer but now I'm wondering if it's been put in a new frame from an old brooch.

 

I think chalcedony was the important keyword (yay, Tie.dye.cat) ... I searched for it when you first posted ... nada ... but with that keyword ... Wow - look at them all!
https://www.google.com/search?q=Cha...sAQIGw&biw=1280&bih=894#imgrc=WYrLix8pX1zTdM:

 

Ahh, there we go! I had listed mine as Camphor Glass cause the ones I found at the time were listed that way, but maybe Chalcedony would have been the better term.

Either way it's a lovely pendant, and I can see why you'd not want to part with it. I love that delicate flower pattern; it's unique. I had not wanted to part with mine either, but making money usually rules over my desire to hang onto something.

 

I suspect calico's is a copy of the older brooches, looking at the back construction.

 

Bear, what part of the construction makes you think newer ? I'm seeing a range of Victorian ones done with wire, some with rivets and some with tacks or screws like mine.

 

Those polished dome rivets - they look newer to me. Unless they've been redone.

 

Mine had the same rivets on back, fwiw.

 

I was able to test the polished rivets on the back and they test as solid 14k+. I think what has happened is this was a Victorian brooch set in gold and possibly removed from the setting to scrap the gold and reset into the sterling frame.

 

My problem is I have a LITTLE difficulty "parting with"......just the same, yours is lovely, Calico!!!!!!

 

Oho. I think you're spot on calico.