Catalogue
Pearl brooch, in gold (9ct; 2.52g; 51x10mm), attributed to maker, Aronson & Co, features a shaped bar with a curved floral centrepiece featuring nine natural seed pearls, pin-back with loop provision for safety chain. Toned very fine.
Estimate $200
Pearl brooch, in gold (9ct; 2.32g; 23mm), attributed to Willis & Sons, features a crescent with saw tooth edges and decorated with seed pearls, pin-back, with unofficial box. Toned very fine.
Estimate $200
Shell Cameo brooch, in gold plated silver frame (tot wt 7.87g; 27.5x35mm), by J.M.W (J.M.Wendt), features head of a lady facing right, pin-back with safety chain attached to bar across back. Chip at top right edge and a few other edge marks in frame, otherwise fine.
Estimate $200
Opal brooch, in gold (9ct; 1.94g; 48x8mm), attributed to maker, Willis & Sons, features a stylized double bar with a small oval claw set white opal in the centre, pin-back. Very fine.
Estimate $200
Brooch, in hand painted porcelain in a gold frame (9ct; tot wt 24.04g; 44x63.5mm), attributed to Joseph Lawrence Pty Ltd, features a floral display, pin-back with loop provision for safety chain. A few small dents in porcelain, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $200
Brooch, in hand painted porcelain in a gold frame (9ct; tot wt 23.46g; 43x54mm), attributed to Joseph Lawrence Pty Ltd, features a floral display, pin-back with safety chain. Very fine.
Estimate $200
Brooch, in hand painted porcelain in a gold frame (9ct; tot wt 21.58g; 46x56.5mm), by (J.M.) Wendt, features a floral display, pin-back with safety chain. A small enamel chip, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $200
Brooch, in gold (9ct; 2.64g; 48x11mm), attributed to Joseph Lawrence Pty Ltd, features a thin bar and in the centre is a claw set oval light green sapphire-like gemstone, pin-back. Very fine.
Estimate $200
Brooch, in gold (9ct; 2.63g; 45x8mm), attributed to maker, H.Simonsen, features a decorative bar with a claw set oval purple gemstone in the centre and on each side on the bar is a small flower with a seed pearl in the centre, pin-back. Toned good very fine.
Estimate $200
Brooch, in gold (9ct; 2.63g; 48x23mm), attributed to maker, Willis & Sons, features a decorative bar with a shield in the middle and this with a claw set red gemstone in the centre, below the shield is another claw set red gemstone suspended below a chain attached near the ends of the bar, pin-back. Toned good very fine.
Estimate $200
Brooch, in gold (9ct; 2.63g; 48x12mm), by T&S (Taylor & Sharp), features a decorated bar with a centerpiece of a blue gemstone and four imitation pearls, and at each end are an imitation pearl and a blue gemstone, pin-back, with unofficial box. Toned good very fine.
Estimate $200
Brooch, in gold (9ct; 2.54g; 48.5x13.5mm), attributed to maker, Willis & Sons, features a decorated bar with a shield in the middle and this with a small purple gemstone in the centre of an engraved star, pin-back with three loop provision for a short hanging chain. Some scratch marks on bar, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $200
Brooch, in gold (9ct; 2.19g; 40x18mm), attributed to S.Schlank & Co, features a plain satin finished bar with saw tooth edges and with engraved floral decoration at each end and with a small chain at each side meeting at the middle of the base at a suspended bell, pin-back, with unofficial box. Toned very fine.
Estimate $200
Brooch, in gold (9ct; 2.17g; 52x11mm), attributed to Willis & Sons, features a decorated single bar and in the centre is a claw set green gemstone, pin-back, with unofficial box. Toned very fine.
Estimate $200
Brooch, in gold (9ct; 2.12g; 48x17mm), attributed to maker, Willis & Sons, features a highly decorated bar with a shield in the middle and this with a small claw set red gemstone in the centre, below the shield is another heart shaped and claw set red gemstone and with two curved chains from each side of the bar to the base of the shield, pin-back. Toned very fine.
Estimate $200
Floral brooch, in gold (9ct; 2.63g; 42x12mm), by Perryman (& Co), features a bar with a flower in the centre claw set with three garnets, pin-back. Toned very fine.
Estimate $200
Floral brooch, in gold (9ct; 2.04g; 23mm), attributed to maker, Aronson & Co, features double, thin circular plain bars with a shorter thin bar on the inside with a claw set red gemstone at the end and also near the end is another bar with a leaf display set with three seed pearls, pin-back. Toned fine.
Estimate $200
Key brooch, in gold (9ct; 2.68g; 38x14mm), by H.G.R (H.G. Rogers), features a gold key with an 8 on the bow and with a cross cut into the bit, pin-back, with unofficial box. Toned very fine.
Estimate $200
Mother brooch, in 9ct gold and sterling silver (tot wt 1.67g; 37x10mm), by Rodd (G.&E.Rodd), features voided word Mother in gold on a curved decorated silver bar with five seed pearls on half of the bar, pin-back. Very fine.
Estimate $200
Cornelian brooch, in silver frame (tot wt 25.45g; 42x56mm), by O.C.Shrowder, features a large oval cornelian set in an oval silver frame, pin-back. Silver frame toned and with a few dents, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $200
Boomerang brooch, in gold (9ct; 1.53g; 52x18mm), attributed to maker, Willis & Sons, features a plain boomerang, pin-back. Small dent at one end, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $150
Kangaroo brooch, in gold (9ct; 1.03g; 19x20.5mm), attributed to maker, H.Simonsen, features a kangaroo facing right and sitting on a circle, pin-back. Good very fine.
Estimate $150
Shell Cameo brooch, in silver frame (tot wt 6.06g; 25x29mm), by (W.H.) Spencer, features a shell cameo of a lady's head and shoulders facing right, in a frame engraved decorated, pin-back with safety chain, with unofficial box. Good very fine.
Estimate $150
Brooch, in gold (9ct; 1.40g; 36x7mm), attributed to Aronson & Co, features a plain bar with engraved decorated ends, pin-back, with unofficial box. Very fine.
Estimate $150
Brooch, in hand painted porcelain on a sterling silver frame (tot wt 12.70g; 42.5x43.5mm), by H.G. R (H.G.Rogers), features a forest scene, pin-back with safety chain. Extremely fine.
Estimate $150
Tasmania brooch, in gold (9ct; .65g; 23x11mm), by F.A.F (F.A. Flint), features a map of Tasmania on a pin-bar, the map inscribed, "Tasmania", with unofficial box. Very fine.
Estimate $150
Multi Gemstone brooch, in gold (9ct; 1.54g; 35.5x24mm), attributed to maker, Willis & Sons, features thin bar with three prongs and fitted at each end of the bar are red gemstones and on the prongs are fitted red gemstones, pin-back. Very fine.
Estimate $120
Amethyst brooch, in gold (9ct; .99g; 40x10mm), by maker, WBS, features a curved flower stem with an amethyst at the end, pin-back. Very fine.
Estimate $100
Brooch, in hand painted porcelain in a gold frame (9ct; tot wt 4.44g; 22.5x29.5mm), attributed to Joseph Lawrence Pty Ltd, features a floral display, pin-back with loop provision for safety chain. Good very fine.
Estimate $100
Brooch, in sterling silver (9.52g; 45x23mm), by F.Collins, features a plain bar with engraved decorated ends and in the centre is a French silver one franc 1919 coin with the obverse facing outwards, pin-back, with unofficial box. Good fine.
Estimate $100