Posted 5 years ago
kwqd
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This pewter brooch with brass and carnelian (or red glass?) accents, commemorates the Battersea Shield. I forgot to measure it but I guess it is about 3" x 1.5". The Battersea Shield is about 2000 years old and was found in the River Thames in London in 1857. This was a $1 thrift shop find. I could find only two examples using an Internet search, one with the red stone and one with a blue stone. Guessing this is from the 1960s? Pewter is one of my favorite metals. I was surprised to find that there is no category for Pewter Jewelry...
@valentino97 - LOL! The next piece I am putting up, I actually did find in a thrift store in St. Andrews, Scotland, but now no one will believe me. Sigh.
Thanks for loving my brooch plein-air-painter and valentino97!
Thanks for loving my Celtic brooch!
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Very nice- love that Celtic look to it- there was a very similar looking shield that was unearthed in Ireland a while back in a river/bog I think and has a boar symbol hidden on it somewhere? I adore the little jewels in yours though, a blue one would be very nice too!
Thanks for your comment LaurenRedmond and for loving my little brooch. I believe that I read about the other shield that you mentioned, but will take a look! I use a couple of archaeology news services. It is an interest of mine.
Thanks Gillian and officialfuel!
Nice find for a dollar!
Thanks, Mrstyndall! Even a blind pig finds a truffle once in a while!
Thanks for loving my brooch Elisabethan and Kevin!
Thanks for your comment Eileen! I like this one a lot, too. I also really like that it led me to learn about the shield that this brooch commemorates as I am an archaeology buff.
Those danged boys!
Thanks for loving my brooch inky!
I have one I got in a second hand shop in the 80's. It has a pink center stone.
First of all: I love your brooch! Those Celtic La Tène swirls are so beautiful and elegant.
A lot of antique Arts and Crafts/Art Nouveau/“Ruskin” brooches are made of pewter. Older and of course a different style from yours—but they do exist, so it’s odd there’s no category for pewter jewellery here. (The other day I was researching one such brooch that belonged to my grandmother and was thinking of posting it here… but how shall I classify it? ;)