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Posted 10 months ago
Agram.m
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Around 1887 they began in England to manufacture the so-called silver 'sweetheart' brooches. These love tokens tapped directly into the romantic and sensitive side of people's nature and revived the passion for flowers and messages in jewelry last seen in the early 19th cntury. All kinds of every day objects suddenly took on a new meaning when fashioned into little brooches - horseshoes, hearts, anchors and crosses. Here some samples of these 'sweetheart'brooches.
I have this text extracted from the book: Starting to collect antique jewellery by John Benjamin what I can warmly recommend especially for starting antique jewelry collectors. A real antique jewelry collector must have at least one of such brooches in their collection don't you think so?
Victorian and Edwardian JewelryThe Victorian Era spanned Queen Victoria's rule of England from 1837 until …
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very beautiful :)
BELLIN68 Thanks for loving
your very welcome Agram.m :)
vetrai50, thanks!
refindanddesign and lisa thanks for loving the sweetheart brooches.
Wonderful!
You have always kind compliments miKKoChristmas11, thanks!
Thanks for loving Hems303
Hi Agram.m
I don't know how these brooches passed me by.
I must sound like a broken record to you repeating myself over & over again, but I'm going to say it again anyway. " Love them", just "Beautiful".
Kathycat, I can understand because today I have already 133 items (items the most of them jewels) on this site. Perhaps you could click on my name and look for all the items. Then you see them all together.
Agram.m,
That is a great idea. Now why didn't I think of that. LOL
Wow! I am newly obsessed with these. Adorable!