Lot 395
A selection of late Victorian mourning jewellery.
Description
Condition Report
A selection of late Victorian mourning jewellery. To include a horn and wooden bead necklace, a pietra dura and jet brooch, a vulcanite floral brooch, together with a pressed horn hand brooch. Length of necklace 48.5cms. Length of brooches 2.7 to 5.4cms.
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Purchasing information- Overall condition fair to good.
- Necklace with some wear to the coating of the wooden beads.
- Minor to moderate chips and/or abrasion to the horn panels of the necklace, most wear is to the reverse.
- Piera dura brooch with chips to the reverse of the jet.
- Remaining two brooches with damage to the fittings, clasps deficient, one bar dent, both require attention.
- Some fading and discolouration. Hand brooch with chips and cracking.
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