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EROS (CUPID), the Greek God of LOVE, was originally son of Chaos, the primeval
emptiness of the universe, and to the earliest Greeks he symbolized love in its
purest form. Later tradition made him the son of Aphrodite (Venus). In early Greek
art he is shown as a handsome youth with bow and quiver, but by Hellenic Period,
about 300 B.C to 300 A. D., when Greek and Roman cultures merged and Christianity
was established, he had already evolved into the baby-like figure so well loved
by the Victorians.
Item #: cupid12. Button: Cupid on a Swing. In pewter set in a tinted brass cup.
Available as a brooch, locket or necklace. 1 1/8" diameter. Circa 1880's. Price
$55.
Item #: cupid10. Button: Pan. Cut out in pewter against a painted background.
Available as a brooch, necklace, or large locket with chain or bowpin. 1 1/2"
diameter. Circa 1880's. Price $60.
PAN, The God of Flocks and Shepherds and Wild Animals, in Greek mythology. He
is sometimes shown as a bearded and shaggy hair man with the feet and legs of
a goat who wandered through the forests guarding the flocks and chasing wild animals,
playing his "pipes of Pan". This design is adapted from Thorwaldsen's drawings
in which, Cupid, the God of Love, is represented as being able to tame even the
most ferocious of beasts.
Item #: cupid11. Button: Cupid Riding A Robin. As a locket available with bowpin
or chain. Circa 1880's.
Price $45.
Item #: cupid7. Button: Cupid Pulled on a Wagon by a Dragonfly. In tinted brass
relief. As a necklace or brooch. 1" diameter. Circa 1880's. Price $50.
Item #: cuupid25. Button: Cupid Taking Aim. As a 2 compartment locket with chain
or bowpin. Circa 1880's. Price $45.
Item #: cupid9. Button: Cupid at Rest. 1 1/2" diameter. Brooch. Circa 1880's.
Price $60.
Item #: cupid6. Button: Cupid and Erato, muse of poetry and music. Brooch or necklace.
Cut out in brass set on a darkened background. 1 3/8" diameter. Circa 1880's.
Price $60.
Item #: cupid14. Button: Cupid at the Fountain. Small round 2 compartment locket
with chain or brooch. Circa 1880's.
Price $45.
Item #: cupid1. Button: Cupid and Hebe. 1 1/2" diameter. Subject cut out in detailed
brass and attached as an escutcheon to a paint-worn surface. Brooch or necklace.
Circa 1880's. Price $80.
Hebe playing the castanets, cupid playing the trumpet. Hebe was the Cup Bearer
of the Gods, daughter Zeus and Hera
(Jupiter and Juno).
Item #: cupid2. Button: Cupid Dancing Amongst the Flowers.1" diameter. Necklace.
Circa 1880's. Price $60.
Item #: cupid 5. Button: Surprised by Love. In tinted brass relief. Brooch. 1
1/2" diameter. Circa 1880's. Price $60.
Item #: cupid3. Button: Cupid Slaying Jealousy. In tinted brass relief. Brooch.
1 3/8" diameter. Circa 1880's. Price $55.
Item #: cupid4. Button: Hunting Cherubs. Brooch. 1" diameter. Circa 1880's. Price
$60.
Item #: cupid26. Button: Cupid Teasing the Dog with Mask. As a locket available
with bowpin or chain. Circa 1880's.
Price $45.
Item #: cupid24. Button: Cupid and Erato, muse of poetry. As a 2 compartment locket
available with bowpin or chain.
Circa 1880's. Price $45.
Item #: cupid23. Button: Cupid Taming the Lion of Love. 3/4" diameter. As
a locket available with bowpin or chain.
Circa 1880's. Price $45.
Item #: cupid22. Button: Cupid on a Swing, in pewter set in a brass cup. As a
locket available with bowpin or chain.
Circa 1880's. Price $45.
Item #: cupid17. Button: cupid Taking Aim, 1 1/2" diameter. As a brooch, necklace
or locket available with bowpin or chain. Circa 1880's. Price $70.
Item #: cupid621. Button: Clluupid riding an eagle. As a two compartment locket
available with bowpin or chain. Circa 1880's. Price $45.
Item #: cupid18. Button: Cupid/Angel. As a locket available with bowpin or chain.
Circa 1880's. Price $45.
Item #: cupid19. Button: Cupid on a Crescent Moon. As a locket available with
bowpin or chain. Circa 1880's. Price $45.
Item #: cupid20. Button: Cupid on a Crescent Moon.1 1/2" diameter. As a brooch,
necklace or locket available with bowpin or chain. Circa 1880's. Price $70.
Item #: cupid13. Button: Smiling Cupid. As a locket available with bowpin or chain.
Circa 1880's. Price $45.
Item #: cupid16. Button: Cupid at the Column. As a silvered locket available with
bowpin or chain. Circa 1880's. Price $45.
Item #: cupid15. Button: Cupid in a Swan Boat. As a locket available with bowpin
or chain. Circa 1880's. Price $45.
Item #: cupid29. Button: Dancing Cupid. As a locket available with bowpin or chain.
Circa 1880's. Price $45.
Item #: cupid30. Button: Resting in a Rosebush. As a locket available with bowpin
or chain. Circa 1880's. Price $45.
Item #: cupid31. Button: Cupid Slaying Jealousy. As a locket available with
bowpin or chain. Circa 1880's. Price $45.
Item #: cupid27. Button: Forgin Marriage Links. As a locket available with bowpin
or chain. Circa 1880's. Price $45.
Item #: cupid37. Button: Cupid and Erato, the muse of poetry. As a locket available
with bowpin or chain. Circa 1880's. Price $45.
Item #: cupid35. Button: Musical Cupid. As a locket available with bowpin or
chain. Circa 1880's. Price $45.
Item #: cupid28. Button: Climbing a Moonbeam. As a locket available with bowpin
or chain. Circa 1880's. Price $45.
Item #: cupid36. Button: Cupid Releasing Birds from a Cage. As a locket available
with bowpin or chain. Circa 1880's. Price $45.
Item #: cupid. Button: . As a locket available with bowpin or chain. Circa 1880's.
Price $45.
Item #: cupid41. Button: Young Woman Whispering to a Statue of Cupid. As a locket
available with bowpin or chain. Circa 1880's. Price $45.
Item #: cupid43. Button: Cupid at the Fountain. As a locket available with bowpin
or chain. Circa 1880's. Price $45.
Item #: cupid44. Button: Cupid at Rest. As a locket available with bowpin or
chain. Circa 1880's. Price $45.
Item #: cupid46. Button: Young Lady Defending Herself Against Love, from a painting
by William Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905). As a locket available with bowpin
or chain. Circa 1880's. Price $45.
Item #: cupid50. Button: Cupid with Mask Teasing a Dog. As a locket available
with bowpin or chain. Circa 1880's. Price $45.
Item #: cupid51. Button:
Cupid Forging the Links of Matrimony While Watched
by The Lovebird. Also referred to as
Hymen Forging the Double Wedding
Band, as well as
Hymen, God of Marriage. As a locket available with
bowpin or chain. Circa 1880's. Price $45.
Item #: cupid48. Button: Cupid Taming the Lion. Design is adapted from Thorwaldsen's
drawings in which Cupid, the God of Love, is represented as Pan, being able
to tame even the most ferocious beasts. As a locket available with bowpin or
chain.1 1/4 " diameter. Circa 1880's. Price $55.
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Item #: cupid49. Button: Cupid Taming the Lion. Design is adapted from Thorwaldsen's
drawings in which Cupid, the God of Love, is represented as Pan, being able
to tame even the most ferocious beasts. As a locket available with bowpin or
chain. 3/4" diameter. Circa 1880's. Price $45.
Item #: cupid55.Cupid Taking Aim. As a 4 compartment locket available with bowpin
or chain. Circa 1880's. Price $55
.
Item #: cupid53.Smiling Cupid. As a 4 compartment locket available with bowpin
or chain. Circa 1880's. Price $55.
Item #: cupid47. Button: Cupid Taming the Lion, i pewter against a dark background
bordered in brass. Design is adapted from Thorwaldsen's drawings in which Cupid,
the God of Love, is represented as Pan, being able to tame even the most
ferocious
beasts. As a brooch.1 1/4". Circa 1880's. Price $60.
Item #: cupid39. Button: Cupid Riding the Robin, all in brass. As a locket,1
1/2" diameter, available with bowpin or chain. Circa 1880's. Price $60.
Item #: cupid38. Button: Cupid and Erato, muse of poetry. As a brooch, 1 3/8"
diameter. Circa 1880's. Price $60.
Item #: cupid32. Button: Cupid with Mask Teasing Dog. As a brooch,1 1/4"
diameter. Circa 1880's. Price $60.
Item #: cupid45. Button: Cupid at Rest, in cut-out brass with white metal border.
As a locket, 1 1/2" diameter, available with bowpin or chain. Circa 1880's.
Price $60.
Item #: cupid39. Button: Cupid Riding the Robin. As a locket,1 1/2" diameter,
available with bowpin or chain. Circa 1880's. Price $60.
Item #: cupid33. Button: Dancing Cupid, in brass on a silvered money clip. Circa
1880's. Price $45.
Item #: cupid40. Button: Cherub/cupid Among Acanthus Leaves, in brass fashioned
onto a money clip. Circa 1880's. Price $50.
Item #: cupid63. Button: Fairies at St. Cuthbert's Well. From a Longfellow's
ballad, The Luck of Edenhall, which tells of an old painted goblet left by the
fairies on St. Cuthbert's Well in the garden of Edenhall. According to the superstition,
should the glass ever shatter at a banquet, the vaulted hall would crack, flames
would burst forth and Edenhall would be in ruins.. As a locket, 1 1/2"
diameter, available with bowpin or chain. Circa 1880's. Price $60.
Item #: cupid34. Button: Cupid on a Swing. In pewter set in a tinted brass cup.
Available as a small locket with chain or bowpin. Circa 1880's. Price $45.
Item #: cupid60. Button:
Cupid Riding a Dolphin. . Available as a small
locket. Circa 1880's. Price $45.
Item #: cupid56. Button:
Cupid Taking Aim. In pewter set on tinted brass.
Available as a brooch, locket or necklace. 1 5/8" diameter. Circa 1880's. Price
$65.
Item #: cupid59. Button: Cupid with Garlands and Lovebirds, as a small
locket. Circa 1880's. Price $45.
Item #: cupid12. Button: Cupid on a Swing. In pewter set in a tinted brass cup.
Available as a brooch, locket or necklace. 1 1/8" diameter. Circa 1880's. Price
$55.
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