Georgian Gold and pinchbeck double sided locket English C.1825

by Louis Wine

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Georgian Gold and pinchbeck double sided locket English C.1825

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Georgian Gold and pinchbeck double sided locket English C.1825. The circular locket in a pocket watch style, the slightly pink gold front cover and reverse with engine turned finish, vacant cartouche to one side, the other with light monogram, the surround of rich foliage decoration in a yellow gold colour pinchbeck. The locket opens on both sides to reveal a clear glass allowing for an insert on each side. Gold acid tests as 9K. Height to top of bale: 2 inches. Diameter of locket: 1.375 inches. Diameter of interior glass: 1.2 inches. Item Weight: 24.24 grams.

Louis Wine

Louis Wine Ltd., Toronto specialists in Antique Silver , Antique Jewellery & Decorative Arts, are a 4th generation family business.Louis Wine (1865-1946) founded the company in Dublin, Ireland in 1880. Louis Wine began selling to silver collectors in Dublin from a shop in historic Wellington Quay. In 1908, he located on Dublin's fashionable Grafton Street. To the firm came the worlds leading Georgian Silver collectors. Pieces by Paul de Lamerie, Paul Storr, Hester Bateman and Irish Georgian Silver were constantly on display. Our gallery run by Richard (Louis Wine's great grandson) at 150 Cumberland Street (Yorkville), Toronto, displays a range of fine Antique Silver, Old Sheffield Plate, Antique Jewellery & Decorative Arts from the 18th-20th century, including Bateman, Storr, Ramsden, Tiffany, Knox, Liberty, Jensen, Christopher Dresser.