ANTIQUE / VINTAGE GOLD CARVED SHELL AND CORAL CAMEO BROOCHES, LOT OF FOUR, comprising a carved shell example featuring a Bacchante woman holding grapevines and wearing a ruffled dress in a frame that tests as 14K gold fineness possibly being rolled-gold, a carved coral example of a Classical bearded man having curly hair and wearing a laurel leaf crown in a frame that tests as 10K gold fineness with black enameling, and two carved shell examples in marked 10K gold frame featuring engraved decoration with one having a pendant hanging loop. Each tested or marked for gold fineness. Total weight including non-gold components: 54.9 grams. Late 19th/first quarter 20th century. Largest example 1 7/8" x 2 3/8" OA.
Provenance: From the collection of Pat and Jerry Meyer, Silver Spring, MD.

Mostly in good to very good overall condition with minor to moderate wear and other imperfections including surface scratches, bending, and/or nicks; Bacchante woman cameo with a flake/small sliver chip to the pinky on her left hand, frame with darkened finish/residue possibly a chemical reaction to non-gold metal; coral cameo glued into frame, a split to hinge on pin; 10K example with pendant loop having repair to one side of frame corresponding to hinge on pin with sizable bend to edge, pin probably replaced with a stick pin fastener frozen on it.