Victorian Diamond & Red Enamel Butterfly Brooch watches with stepped shoulders and clean

with stepped shoulders and clean lines

This rare antique signet ring is

with a fine gold thread providing a horizon line and further looped gold thread around the border

often with the inscription Gold gab ich für Eisen (I gave gold for iron)

which was usually in rhyme or "posey"

Victorian Diamond & Red Enamel Butterfly Brooch watches with stepped shoulders and cleanDATE: Victorian, c. 1880 A superb antique round brooch, the face finished in vivid red guilloch enamel and set with a diamond butterfly around all this is a white enamel border, dotted with gold. It's modelled in 15k gold throughout, and dates to the late 19th Century. A beautiful, high quality piece. In Victorian symbolic tradition, the butterfly were used as an emblem of the soul. Aside from the obvious visual appeal, the metamorphosis of a