Exceptional Sterling Brooch Featuring Yellow Breasted Bunting with Flowers Vintage silver jewelry with their entirely three-dimensional construction

with their entirely three-dimensional construction

and even today we can find paste jewels

a delicate sentimentality is captured by the forget-me-not etched on the clasp

Materials & Features: Pinchbeck

creating a multi-dimensional artwork

Exceptional Sterling Brooch Featuring Yellow Breasted Bunting with Flowers Vintage silver jewelry with their entirely three-dimensional constructionThroughout the Georgian and Victorian eras, and across Europe, the symbols used in jewelry carried particular importance to people. In an age of heightened sentiment, sensibility, and sentimentality where jewelry was frequently given and worn as a token of friendship, love, or mourning each piece was often encoded with its own personal meanings and messages, through the symbols and materials chosen in its making. Birds were particularly popular