Posted 7 years ago
Elisabethan
(284 items)
I´m so happy to now have this rare piece in my collection.
It´s a victorian cut steel bracelet. Cut steel was high fashion at the time and most of it was produced in England. I have red it was first made in England in the early 1700´s although some records show it started much earlier, in the 1500´s. Cut steel is often mistaken for marcasite.
Because of the nature of the material these pieces of jewelry were prone to rust. That´s why it´s hard to find these today and to find ones without rust. This bracelet has survived fairly well, no rust but a few tiny rivets missing. I think it still shows spectacular craftmanship. What do you think?
Beautiful
Thank you for your nice coment wandlessfairy :)!
Elizabeth this is really lovely!!!
Thank you TassieDevil/ Elisabeth
Wow. Amazing and beautiful.
I think it's great! Would love to find one at a flea market....... :-)))))
Thank you Racer4four that nice of you :).
Thank you Efesgirl. I hope you will. I stumbled over mine. Someone wrote "markasit" which I knew was not right and that this was something more rare and valuable. Won the auction and payed a very small sum.
Thank you for love wandlessfairy, TassieDevil, Racer4four, peasejean, Efesgirl and mikelv!
Elisabeth, you are very welcome and I will spell your name properly from now on too!! :-) My attention to detail is not as good as it used to be......thanks, Judy.
Thank you Judy but no worries :) how would you know. I rarely use my name here and the "Elisabethan" could have been spelled wrong by mistake and not on purpose like it is. Nice to "talk" to you :). Have a nice day!
Thank you mrstyndall for loving my post.
Thank you Manikin and moonkana!
Thank you Hel1!
Woahhh! Why a superb lucky find!
Marcasites... duh! :-))))
Kyratango ha ha :) :) you understand me :) I was thrilled finding this! Thank you my friend!
Thank you dear Valentino :)!
Thank you Valentino and kyratango for loving my post.
Vetraio thank you!
Thank you for your nice coment nutsabotas6!
Thank you for loving my post caperkid and nutsabotas6!
Tank you for love
Vintagelamp
Bijoucaillouvintage
Enameld_Beatle aura
Real antique rare find!
Thank you Agram for that!
Thanks for love also aura, dragonflypearl, Agram!
Thanks to all who loved or liked this post!