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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 9575869, member: 2844&quot;]Yes, Italian made. 20th century, so long after the Grand Tour period.</p><p><br /></p><p>Are you sure it isn&#039;t a T-hinge? It looks like a small one to me, but it is dark metal on a dark flower, so difficult to see.</p><p>The material is difficult to tell from a photo. I see a bubble, so presumably a cast material.</p><p>Normally you could test both gutta percha and vulcanite by rubbing it and see if it smells like rubber, but the flower look a little delicate. There are other ways.</p><p>Gutta percha is most likely, taste the back with the tip of your tongue. If it tastes salty, it is gutta percha. If not, it could be vulcanite. Make sure it doesn&#039;t get wet though, neither gutta percha nor vulcanite like to be wet, it leaves stains.</p><p>Vulcanite, rub an inconspicuous part on the back of a white tile. Vulcanite leaves a powdery brown streak.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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