Posted 1 year ago
kwqd
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This pewter brooch with brass and carnelian (or red glass?) accents, commemorates the Battersea Shield. I forgot to measure it but I guess it is about 3" x 1.5". The Battersea Shield is about 2000 years old and was found in the River Thames in London in 1857. This was a $1 thrift shop find. I could find only two examples using an Internet search, one with the red stone and one with a blue stone. Guessing this is from the 1960s? Pewter is one of my favorite metals. I was surprised to find that there is no category for Pewter Jewelry...
True, put in fine jewelry like you did and also in souvenir category (does CW have one?) Great design. I love finding souvenir items at thrift stores that someone let go of, but I have been there (ie Mexico, Fiji, Hawaii, Alaska are the easiest for me to find her e in CA), so I just pretend I bought them on my trip :-)
@valentino97 - LOL! The next piece I am putting up, I actually did find in a thrift store in St. Andrews, Scotland, but now no one will believe me. Sigh.
Thanks for loving my brooch plein-air-painter and valentino97!
Thanks for loving my Celtic brooch!
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Very nice- love that Celtic look to it- there was a very similar looking shield that was unearthed in Ireland a while back in a river/bog I think and has a boar symbol hidden on it somewhere? I adore the little jewels in yours though, a blue one would be very nice too!
Thanks for your comment LaurenRedmond and for loving my little brooch. I believe that I read about the other shield that you mentioned, but will take a look! I use a couple of archaeology news services. It is an interest of mine.
Thanks Gillian and officialfuel!
Nice find for a dollar!
Thanks, Mrstyndall! Even a blind pig finds a truffle once in a while!
Thanks for loving my brooch Elisabethan and Kevin!
Skimming through Fine Jewelry and this really caught my eye!
I love the design and the stones seem to leap out a you, especially the red focal!
Thanks for your comment Eileen! I like this one a lot, too. I also really like that it led me to learn about the shield that this brooch commemorates as I am an archaeology buff.
Archaelogy! I always thought my Daughter, Michele, would grow up and become an archaeologist. She was so into the pyramids and such. Then she met a boy.....
Those danged boys!
Thanks for loving my brooch inky!