Victorian Gold MIZPAH Locket box Green and White Paste Gemstones

Green and White Paste Gemstones

It's very much in the early 20th Century Art Nouveau style

but deadly

The central stone spreads around one carat

the outer pastry case ensuring no saucy mess (and presumably also helped avoid contamination from the arsenic and other contaminants Cornish miners were exposed to when exploiting the tin seams)

Victorian Gold MIZPAH Locket box Green and White Paste GemstonesDATE: Victorian, c. 1880 Cool antique Mizpah locket dating from the late Victorian period, circa 1880. Crafted in 15 karat gold with large embossed lettering on both the back and front, and finished with hand chased textured detailing behind the words. The triangle motifs above and below the words have tiny holes which I first thought were patches of black enamel a clever touch. Hebrew for "watchtower", the mizpah sentiment has come to connote an