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Amazing Vintage Turkey Brooch! (SOLD)
He's Huge, He's Seasonal and He is one of a kind - welcome to the most amazing Turkey Pin ever! This whopping Vintage Turkey Brooch measures 4.5 by almost 5 inches in size. There are more than 200 individual glass stones which have been claw-set by hand to make up this very big bird. Amongst the jewels used there are faceted foiled stones and open glass crystals in a range of naturalistic colours - from the white diamantes that tip the tail to the pink stones that adorn the little dangle under his beak! (And yes, that dangle moves - what fun!). So we have topaz browns, citrine yellows, peridot and emerald greens, black, orange, red, pink, white and a kind of light brown too. These diamante or paste gems are wonderful shapes - round, square, navette, oval, baguette and even a teardrop or two. The largest jewel measures 2cms in length and the smallest is a couple of millimetres in diameter. The brooch appears to be a brassy gold metal which was once silvered over but has lost some of that silvering. There is a clue to the maker - on the back there is a little applied oval tag with the word 'Papillon' on it. Is the wonder bird French? I really don't know. This great brooch is certainly vintage and possibly from the 1980's. There are two words to describe this piece of jewellery - Christmas Bling!
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