🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Need help identifying an old pin/brooch!

[jacsterrr]

I just found this pin in my mom’s old jewelry box. I’m having trouble finding any information or any pins like it. I’ve come across some plates with similar artwork that say “Antique Royal Vienna”, but that’s about as far as I’ve gotten on my own.

Any information would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!​

 

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[Tony in SC]

Cool piece! Is that a mark on the clasp?

 

[dozer dan]

Cool piece! Is that a mark on the clasp?

Good eye! I completely missed that.

 

[BennyV]

I like it. Not sure on age or value.

 

[jacsterrr]

It is! It’s just so tiny I can’t make out what it says. Looking for a magnifying glass or loop to help.

 

[invent4hir]

Really nice brooch. Please post clear pictures of the clasp from the side from different directions. It might be possible to narrow the age by the type of clasp it is.

 

[fyrffytr1]

It is! It’s just so tiny I can’t make out what it says. Looking for a magnifying glass or loop to help.

Take a picture with your cell phone and enlarge it. I do it all the time.

 

[jacsterrr]

Ok, I finally got ahold of a magnifying glass! Still tough to make out, but better than the last photos

 

[jacsterrr]

Really nice brooch. Please post clear pictures of the clasp from the side from different directions. It might be possible to narrow the age by the type of clasp it is.

How’s that?

 

[tamrock]

it looks like someone glued a cresent moon pin on some kind of decorative stamped metal cap. I can see the mark on this cresent moon thing is stamped 1-20 10K which is a thin plating of 10 karat gold.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Can you take a pic of this item next to a quarter for scale.

I don't think this piece started out life as a brooch, to me it appears to be repurposed. The back pin attachment looks to have been glued and the piece itself was likely attached to something else at some point in it's life. I'm trying to figure out what's been going on with the reverse side of this piece, as it's beautifully decorated, but why go to the effort if it was intended to be worn as a brooch.

There are also small holes at both ends of this piece, this is what makes me think it was repurposed from something else. I'm thinking it may have been the top of a small make-up compact or possibly a snuff box, this is why I'd like to know the size.