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<p>[QUOTE="SallyTheMouseyPad, post: 9757629, member: 86004"]Looks to me like a Victorian ladies mourning chatelaine watch, fob and pencil and if it is 18k gold (it looks to me that is is) you have def won a watch </p><p>Chatelaines were worn at the waist in the days before pockets and they usually had other trinkets on it them little Etui cases, scissors, button hooks, thimbles etc but that was very customised to the wearer. Mourning jewellery became the height of fashion when Queen Victoria went into mourning after the death of her beloved Prince Albert, a state she stayed in till her own death in 1901. Mourning jewellery usually had elements of black or a compartment containing hair (or even a photograph later on) belonging to the one being mourned. I have more doubt about the chain being genuinely old, the 10K gold stamps I’ve seen have come out of China and whilst 10K is a verified gold standard now, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t in the 1860s, 9ct, 15ct and 18ct being the norm in the UK. I’ve learned the very hard way that a 10K stamp needs to be tested! If you intend to sell it get the chain assay hallmarked or at least very well tested by a professional goldsmith to be sure. A gold chatelaine like this would have been owned and worn by someone very well-off and even without the chain could be worth many thousands of pounds, they are pretty rare. Even silver ones are hard to come by, most are plated base metal. Good luck though, I hope both prove to be old gold and make you a fortune![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="SallyTheMouseyPad, post: 9757629, member: 86004"]Looks to me like a Victorian ladies mourning chatelaine watch, fob and pencil and if it is 18k gold (it looks to me that is is) you have def won a watch Chatelaines were worn at the waist in the days before pockets and they usually had other trinkets on it them little Etui cases, scissors, button hooks, thimbles etc but that was very customised to the wearer. Mourning jewellery became the height of fashion when Queen Victoria went into mourning after the death of her beloved Prince Albert, a state she stayed in till her own death in 1901. Mourning jewellery usually had elements of black or a compartment containing hair (or even a photograph later on) belonging to the one being mourned. I have more doubt about the chain being genuinely old, the 10K gold stamps I’ve seen have come out of China and whilst 10K is a verified gold standard now, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t in the 1860s, 9ct, 15ct and 18ct being the norm in the UK. I’ve learned the very hard way that a 10K stamp needs to be tested! If you intend to sell it get the chain assay hallmarked or at least very well tested by a professional goldsmith to be sure. A gold chatelaine like this would have been owned and worn by someone very well-off and even without the chain could be worth many thousands of pounds, they are pretty rare. Even silver ones are hard to come by, most are plated base metal. Good luck though, I hope both prove to be old gold and make you a fortune![/QUOTE]
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