Vintage Pig In A Poke Charm

Jewelry : Vintage : Continental Silver (800) : Charms : Animals

 

A smiling piglet whose head is emerging from a straw bag which resembles the design of a pineapple?

This unusual charm came to me on a travel bracelet from Europe ca. 1960-1980. Bearing a soft patina the reverse is undecorated and stamped for Continental Silver.

Measures 3/8" by 14/16" .

Most Vintage charm collectors like the patina to be undisturbed, this adds potentially higher value to some charms. Patina is not the same as tarnish... Patina is the soft glow caused by bits of tarnish settling into the natural minute scratches in Sterling Silver that occur overtime. A gentle sweep with a silver cloth will remove unattractive superfluous tarnish yet leave the depth and dimension of the low areas - nooks & crannies - scratches - or what have you. Using a dip or scouring a charm will remove all of the good deposits of tarnish. Again, your choice by all means but a gentle hand is usually a safer bet when cleaning Vintage Sterling.

Rest assured, all charms at Evetta Hill are guaranteed Vintage and have not been altered in any manner! I do not sell reproduction charms ever - even if they were reproduced from an original Vintage mold. Charms like that are NEW even though they were designed using an old component.

Please note that my photos are highly enlarged and therefore magnify every nuance many of which are not visible to the naked eye.

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Item ID: eh00352

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