It features two very special antique items from my collection suspended from a Victorian Revival gold plated bangle bracelet.
1. Antique Flaming Sacred Heart Ex Voto flacon reliquary, and
1. Victorian Pinchbeck mother of pearl hand that was once a brooch.
The flame of the antique flacon reliquary unscrews because it was most likely owned by a religious individual, perhaps a priest, to hold holy water. The front is beautifully engraved "A M" for Ave Maria surrounded by foliage. The reverse is engraved, "Dinan 1er 8bre 1907.
The Victorian mother of pearl hand is set in Pinchbeck, a metal invented by a clock maker Christopher Pinchbeck in the 1700s to resemble gold. The hand wears a ring set with a turquoise stone and a hand chased bracelet. It is absolutely stunning!
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