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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kyratango, post: 9733565, member: 5006&quot;]Your piece is originally a mourning brooch from mid 19th.</p><p>They held a piece of hair work under a glass, the opening is from the front, as a box lid without hinge, but very difficult to open (sometimes fixed!) because it is very tightly adjusted.</p><p>I don&#039;t know why the back is convex... They were nearly all like that.</p><p>The ring is a bail if the brooch is worn in original correct position, horizontally; may be too for for adding a security chain.</p><p>The cameo is not original to the brooch!</p><p>See this one:</p><p><a href="https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/antique-19th-c-gold-black-enamel-mourning-brooch-113-c-3d048ed95e" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/antique-19th-c-gold-black-enamel-mourning-brooch-113-c-3d048ed95e" rel="nofollow">https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/antique-19th-c-gold-black-enamel-mourning-brooch-113-c-3d048ed95e</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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