SALE Fabulous Antique English Silver Iron Cross Locket Pin & Earrings Suite

Jewelry : Antique

 

This fabulous antique set includes a lovely detailed iron cross locket pin and matching earrings.

The pin is beautifully made, with terrific silver beading and braided wire work. On the reverse is a locket compartment for adding a memento. The clear plastic lid just pops out. Clasp is the old "C" type.

The matching earrings are exact replicas of the pin; lovely little drops suspended from pretty beaded silver wires.

I would date the suite to 1890-1910.

Pin measures about 1&1/8" and weighs 5.8 grms. Earrings hang just over 1" and weigh 2.6 grams.

Excellent condition. There is ever-so-slight denting on the middle of the pin, but it is negligible; quite normal for the age of the piece. Earrings are beautifully preserved.

Not marked but acid tests as sterling silver. The Iron Cross was a military decoration of the Kingdom of Prussia, and later of Germany.

The Cross was awarded during the Franco-German War, the First World War, and the Second World War.

It was normally a military decoration only — though there were instances of it being awarded to civilians for performing military functions.

Item ID: 2277