Victorian Diamond & Red Enamel Butterfly Brooch watches with a fine gold thread

with a fine gold thread providing a horizon line and further looped gold thread around the border

inspired by jewellery discovered in excavations of ancient tombs in Pompeii and Herculaneum

The Regiments played an important role in the Battle of Slabbert's Nek (July 1900)

with stepped shoulders and clean lines

with applied Japanesque detailing

Victorian Diamond & Red Enamel Butterfly Brooch watches with a fine gold threadDATE: Victorian, c. 1880 A superb antique round brooch, the face finished in vivid red guilloch enamel and set with a diamond butterfly around all this is a white enamel border, dotted with gold. It's modelled in 15k gold throughout, and dates to the late 19th Century. A beautiful, high quality piece. In Victorian symbolic tradition, the butterfly were used as an emblem of the soul. Aside from the obvious visual appeal, the metamorphosis of a