Victorian Oversized Anchor Brooch Giuliano featuring simple hand-chased details

featuring simple hand-chased details

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It's impeccably styled

peridot and spinel

Much gold was being transported to the Philadelphia Mint and to the New Orleans Mint during a period when silver dollars were not widely circulating

Victorian Oversized Anchor Brooch Giuliano featuring simple hand-chased detailsDATE: Victorian, c. 1860 A fantastic oversized silver anchor brooch dating from the mid Victorian period, circa 1860. It's intricately hand chased with geometric, foliate, and other abstract motifs, and crafted in sterling silver. The rope coiled around it makes it what's known as a "fouled anchor", foul being a nautical term meaning to entangle or entwine, so an anchor is said to be "fouled" if it becomes caught up in rope, or snagged on the