Antique Victorian 1.75 Sterling Silver Rose Yellow Gold Plate Fob Charm Pendant

Sterling silver, rose & yellow gold plate. British silver and date marks for 1897. Bold gets a feminine touch. With its quality feel and distinctive shield silhouette, this antique Victorian fob charm is unique for its large size, intricate openwork setting, and detailed foliate motif.

British-made in 1897 the flower and leaf design is highlighted in rose and yellow gold plate for a unique sensibility in a finely crafted package. A heraldic blank cartouche at the focal point is the perfect place for personalization bringing this piece firmly from the past to the present. Bright patina with minor surface wear. Fresh rose and yellow gold plating with minor surface wear and thinning. A young Queen Victoria assumed her role in 1837 and her taste in jewelry quickly became culturally influential, within England and beyond.

Her relationship to jewelry was enmeshed with her husband, Prince Albert, who gifted the Queen for their engagement, a snake ring, embedded with an emerald (her birthstone) in its head. Continuing from the Georgian era and intensified by Queen Victoria's taste, sentimental and figural jewelry was a major trend throughout the Victorian era. When certain ideas and words were deemed too forward or improper to be spoken, jewelry and symbolic meaning was used to communicate what was left unsaid. _gsrx_vers_1736 GS 9.9.5 (1736).

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