Lot 55
Two cameo brooches and a cameo pendant.
Description
Condition Report
Two cameo brooches and a cameo pendant, to include a shell cameo brooch depicting a woman in profile, AF, a lava cameo brooch depicting a man in classical dress flanked by two maidens and a silver gilt Wedgwood cameo pendant. One with hallmarks for Birmingham.
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Purchasing information-
Overall fair condition, all with light surface scratches and areas of tarnishing. The large cameo brooch has a replacement pin which is loose and does not stay in the clasp which itself has the end snapped off. There are noticeable dints throughout the hollow frame. There is lead solder visible around the clasp. There is a split to the very edge of the collet setting. The lava cameo brooch has a heavily tarnished mount and the pin wobbles on its hinge. There are light surface scratches to the cameos. Length 6cms.Length 5.8cms. There is areas of tarnishing to the Wedgwood pendant and the colour has rubbed to the suspension loop, There are some marks from when the mount was cast. It has silver hallmarks for Birmingham, 1980. Length 7cms.