Antique Victorian Era 19th Century Italian Micro Mosaic Brooch -Exquisite Detail

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Victorian Period Italian Micro Mosaic Brooch Here we have for auction this stunning piece of 19th Century Micro Mosaic Jewellery - a lovely circular brooch with the most tiny, intricate glass tesserae making up the picture of flowers in the centre, surrounded by designs in reds and blues in a feathered Florentine style around the edge. Compared to later micro mosaic works, the quality and minute size of the glass mosaic pieces in this brooch show it to be a high quality, probably Italian piece that would have been highly prized by its owner. The tiles are beautifully hand set, with many of them around 1mm or less, and set into a gold tone filigree wire which spirals around the designs. As well as the flowers and feather designs, there are minute dark blue and white triangles, and the workmanship involved in making what is obviously 4 layers of glass (white centre surrounded by a blue line, a white line and another blue outer line) into a perfect triangle and slicing the glass into the tiles is mind boggling. Some of the miniscule daisies in the centre are cut in such a way that you can make out the petals. The whole brooch is smooth to the touch - you can feel the tiles, but they have been set so well than none of them feel rough or stick up above the line of the others, again, showing its quality. It is all set onto a goldtone setting with tiny spikes around the rim and on the reverse is a maker's stamp of CD. During our research, we came across this brooch, which is obviously from the same maker and corresponds with our thoughts about its quality and age - http://www./19th-century-micro-mosaic-brooch-with-exceptional-detail-sold-911-p.asp The only problem with the brooch is that the pin is missing, although the clasp that holds the pin and the hook are intact - if a pin the right length can be sourced from another brooch, it should be possible to replace it. It measures 2.5cm in diameter and we hope it can find a home with someone able to replace the pin and add it to a collection of lovely antique jewellery. Any questions, please ask via our eBay messaging facility. Buy It Now - we often get messages asking for Buy It Now prices on our items. Because we are a charity and need to raise as much as possible for the items we sell, we prefer to keep each listing as an auction and therefore do not have a Buy It Now price, unless the item is already listed with such a price. IMPORTANT!! Please read before bidding Postage Costs We will send your item by one of a couple of methods - please check the listing for details. Items which qualify as Small Parcels and Large Letters and are under 1kg in weight will be sent via Royal Mail. Larger or heavier parcels will be sent by UPS to keep costs down, although we will endeavour to send fragile items by Royal Mail wherever possible. We use UPS as we will not simply use the cheapest option as we have experienced breakages and bad service from other couriers. NB. We no longer ship to Italy because of previous problems but if you ask, depending on the item, we may be able to arrange tracked delivery. Spediamo non è più in Italia a causa di problemi precedenti, ma se si chiede, a seconda della voce, potremmo essere in grado di organizzare il trasporto monitorati. Please do not mark us down in your ratings for postage cost - we do not make any money on postage and what you have paid is - to within a few pence - what it has actually cost to post your item. It only takes 3 bad ratings in a year for us to lose our Top Seller status. We reserve the right to ask for extra postage costs for certain UK postcodes, if not using Royal Mail - i.e. courier charges to offshore islands, remote areas and Northern Ireland cost us extra. Our Listings The items sold by Age UK South Lakeland are donated to us by members of the public. We have checked them for damage and described them accurately to the best of our ability, but we are not experts! Please ask us if you have any questions, or if s... read more

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