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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 613486, member: 2844&quot;]That gilt buckle is a stunner, and with the appropriate replacement stone it will look perfect. Ideally that would be an imitation pearl, like the one it has now. But the right size and shape imitation pearl could be difficult to come by. A replacement stone that works with the general feel of the piece is good.</p><p><br /></p><p>In my opinion it is Bohemian Recession Gürtler work.</p><p>Recession is the Bohemian counterpart of Austrian Secession, so Art Nouveau. There is a hint of Orientalism, which was very popular in the elegant cities of the AH empire.</p><p>Gürtler were the craftspeople who made the base metalwork for Bohemian costume jewellery makers. They started out as makers of buckles and similar chunky pieces.</p><p>Officially they were not allowed to work with precious metals, but some of them did make silver or gold-plated pieces.</p><p>These are often family made pieces, with the men doing the metal stampwork and soldering of the stamped elements, and the women mounting the glass stones.</p><p><br /></p><p>Search for prices of Bohemian buckles, you could be pleasantly surprised, as this will appeal to both collectors of Bohemian jewellery and buckle collectors.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is a pretty composite piece, imo. It looks like the floral elements came from a Bohemian/Czech necklace which was probably broken at some stage.</p><p>Some time in the second half of the 20th century (1980s?) someone decided to make the remaining pieces into a bracelet, using recent cultured freshwater pearls, and a very nice gilt Art Deco clasp from another broken necklace.</p><p>The floral elements are nice, although they look like quality costume rather than real Czech garnet settings, and the stones don&#039;t look facet cut. Maybe it is just the photo, it would certainly be worth testing them to see if the stones are real garnets.</p><p><br /></p><p>All parts are nice, but they didn&#039;t start out life together, imo. I would keep the three styles separate, and see if I could find other bits and bobs to make three different pieces of jewellery. The clasp would look nice with quality Deco costume beads.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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