Lot 2535

Description

Cameo brooch, c1906, with gold frame (tested as 15ct; tot wt 21.00g; 47x55.5mm), by J.M.W. (J.M.Wendt), features a cameo of family figures in a rural scene, in a gold frame that rotates and an outer decorated fixed frame, the reverse is possibly for inserting a photograph that can be rotated to the front, pin-back with loop provision for safety chain, with damaged J.M.Wendt box of issue featuring a woman on the lid wearing Victorian era clothing. Nearly uncirculated.

Australian Jewellers, p129, fig2. Ex The Jack Grace Collection.