three-antique-brooches
Lot 302
Three Antique Brooches
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
The first a Scottish love token designed as a bar brooch and set to the center with one bezel set heart shaped cabochon moonstone and surmounted with a ribbon/crown accented with old cut diamonds and round cut ruby and further accented at each end with a round cabochon moonstone, completed with a single pin stem and C clasp and with safety chain, marked 15c for 15KT, accompanied with original leather and velvet presentation box from Johnson & Co., Glasgow (1 5/8 in.); the second an 18KT gold serpent brooch with blue enamel body and its gold head accented with a rose cut diamond melee, completed with single pin stem and trombone closure, with folded bail for pendant wear (1 5/16 x 2 in.); the third a silver topped gold brooch in a stylized lily of the valley design and set to the center with seed pearls and leaves set throughout with rose cut diamond accents, completed with single pin stem and C clasp (2 5/16 in.).

13.7 dwt.

From the Collection of a Southern Lady, a member of one of the oldest families in NC

Very good estate condition appropriate to age. Lily of the Valley brooch with some old glue residue and one pearl with chip.

$400 - 800