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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 1677848, member: 2844&quot;]Kyra, I think you&#039;ll like this link on Aussie goldsmiths:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.jewellermagazine.com/Article/196/Past-and-present" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.jewellermagazine.com/Article/196/Past-and-present" rel="nofollow">https://www.jewellermagazine.com/Article/196/Past-and-present</a></p><p><br /></p><p>A quote about the relevant period and style of your brooch:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Across Australia&#039;s eastern seaboard, the rapid discovery of gold in the mid-19th century generated great wealth and population expansion, especially in Melbourne, a young city that would soon become the cosmopolitan centre of Australian cultural life. &quot;Marvellous Melbourne&quot;, as it came to be known, was soon marked by teaming boulevards like Elizabeth and Collins Street, where banks and trading companies built a financial capital and jewellers and luxury stores supplied the growing needs of their middle and upper class patrons.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>But Australia&#039;s small jewellery-making industry could not cope with demand. Along with many other luxuries, jewellery was largely imported from Britain and Europe by the growing retail stores in Melbourne, Sydney and Hobart. </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Blessed with invaluable raw materials, local jewellery making would finally blossom with the influx of skilled immigrant jewellers and goldsmiths arriving from Europe, the US, and Britain. </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Anne Schofield and Kevin Fahy, authors of Australian Jewellery: 19th and Early 20th Century (1990), note that these professional jewellers &quot;created jewellery in the naturalistic style then popular in Europe, using local gold, silver and gemstones, and incorporating decorative motifs of Australian flowers, plants, birds, and animals.&quot; </i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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