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All lockets on this page are 1 1/2" Diameter. Chain or bowpin.
Some pictures below may distort size.
Item #: lklbrd4. Button: Dove of Peace. Cut out in detailed brass against a black
velvet background. Fashioned to a locket available with chain or bowpin.
Circa
1870's.
Price $65.
SOLD
Item #: lklcup9. Button: Cupid at the Fountain. Cut out in detailed brass, applied
to a darkened background.
Fashioned to a locket, available with chain or bowpin.
Circa 1880's.
Price $60.
Item #: lklcup7. Button: Cherub with a Scroll, in detailed brass relief.
Fashioned
to a locket available with chain or bowpin.
Circa 1880's.
Price $60.
Item #: lklcup8. Button: Cupid in a Boat. Cut out in pewter and applied to a pierced
back. Fashioned to a locket available with chain or bowpin.
Circa 1880's.
Price
$40.
Item #: LKL40
. Button: In tinted brass on locket, available with chain or bowpin.
Circa 1880's. Price $45. SOLD
Item #: lklgfl20. Button: Flower array in raised, tinted brass fashioned onto
a locket, with chain or bowpin.
Circa 1880's.
Price $45.
Item #: lklbrd2. Button: Herons in Flight, in brass. Fashioned to a locket available
with chain or bowpin.
Circa 1880's.
Price $50.
SOLD
Item #: LKL30. Button: . Smokey mother of pearl fashioned to a
silvered
locket available with chain or bowpin.
Circa 1870's.
Price $45.
Item #LKL42. Beaded flower in tinted brass on a locket available with chain
or bowpin.
Circa 1880's.
Price $45.
Item #:LKL34. Button: Smoky mother-of-pearl fashioned onto a
silvered
locket
with chain or bowpin.
Circa 1870's.
Price $45.
Item #: LKL33. Button. Mother-of-pearl fashioned onto a
silvered locket
available with chain or bowpin.
Circa 1870's.
Price $45.
SOLD
Item #: lklgmo4. Button: Smoky mother-of-pearl fashioned onto a locket available
with chain or bowpin.
Circa 1870's. Price $40. SOLD
Item #: lklhect. Button: Hector, detailed pewter against painted background, fashioned
to a locket available with chain or bowpin. Circa 1880's. Price $60.
HECTOR, son of PRIAM, king of TROY, braves warrior among the Trojans. He killed
PARTOCLUS, dearest friend of ACHILLES who vowed to avenge his death, and did so.
He stripped Hector's body of its armor, pierced the heels and tied it with a thong
to the back of his chariot. Then he drove his team round and round the walls of
Troy, dragging the body behind him. This desecration angered gods and mortals
alike and ZEUS intervened to stop it. He had HERMES persuade the old king, Priam,
to go to the camp of the Greeks and beg Achilles to give up his son's body.
Item #: lklcup1. Button: Cupid at the Fountain, in pressed brass relief, fashioned
to a locket available with chain or bowpin.
Circa 1880's.
Price $60.
Item #: lklnep1. Button: Neptune in detailed brass relief. Fashioned to a locket
available with chain or bowpin.
Circa 1880's. Price $60.
NEPTUNE (POSEIDON), SEA GOD. An old Italian deity, identified with the Greek God
of the sea. NEPTUNALIEA is celebrated on July 23 in his honor. Neptune had a wonderful
palace in the depths of the sea where he lived with his beautiful wife, AMPHITRITE,
and from which he ruled over his vast realm. His son, TITON, announced his father's
commands to all parts of the ocean. Neptune was often seen riding the waves of
an angry ocean with TRIDENT, the symbol of power, in his hand, calming the high
waves. It was he who invented the horse in contest with Minerva.
Item #: lklcrcw. Button: The Trumpeter of Cracow, cut out in pewter against a
painted background set within a brass collet . Fashioned to a locket available
with chain or bowpin.
Circa 1880's. Price $60.
Playing the HEYNAL, an ancient hymn to the Holy Mother, played every hour from
the tower of the Church of St. Mary in Cracow. The playing of the Heynal was a
very old tradition. The trumpeter was also watchman who signaled with a lantern
or a flag if he observed danger from his high vantage point. during the Tartar
invasion of Poland in the 13th century, the trumpeter was killed by an arrow as
he played the Heynal, and afterwards, to commemorate him, the hymn was ended abruptly,
just as the young trumpeter's had been centuries before. The tradition had been
suspended during the Nazi occupation, but restored after the war.
Item #: LKL31. Button:
Mother of pearl fashioned onto a
silvered locket with chain or bowpin.
Circa 1870's.
Price $45.
SOLD
Item #: LKL32. Button: Mother of pearl fashioned onto a
silvered locket.
Circa 1870's. Price $45.
SOLD
Item #: lklldy1. Button: An elegant detailed portrait of a lady as an escutcheon
on a textured background. Fashioned to a locket available with chain or bowpin.
Circa 1880's.
Price $60.
Item #: lklcup4. Cupid on a Cornucopia. In detailed brass relief, fashioned to
a locket available with chain or bowpin. Circa 1880's.
Price $45.
Item #: lklharl. Button: Harlequin, in detailed brass escutcheon embraced by a
border of faceted steel pyrites. Fashioned to a locket available with a chain
or bowpin. Circa 1880's. Price$150.
From the commedia dell'arte which flourished throughout Europe from the 16th to
the 18th century, at which time the Harlequin evolved into a gay, teasing character
usually coming off second best in amorous escapades.
This button is an example of the exquisite work of this period. The Harlequin
is in detailed, sculptured brass and applied as an escutcheon to a reticulated
steel back surrounded by an embroidered separate inner border within an outer
border of faceted steel pyrites individually set. SOLD
Item #: lklcst2. Button: Castle, as an escutcheon applied to a darkened background
within a heart and fleur de lis border. Fashioned to a locket available with chain
or bowpin.
Circa 1880's.
Price $55.
Item #: LKL29. Button: Fashioned to a silvered locket available with chain or
bowpin.
Circa 1870's.
Price $45.
Item #: lklghg1. Button: Hansel and Gretel, fashioned to a locket available with
chain or bowpin.
Circa 1880's. Price $60.
A Grimm's Fairy Tale, made into an opera by Engelbert Humperdinck with libretto
written by Adelheid Wette. Hansel and Gretel were sent into the woods by their
cross stepmother and told to gather berries. The button pictures them beside the
brook which they could not cross, and Gretel is begging the ducks to take them
across on their backs. In the opera she says: "Oh, there are some ducks. Perhaps
they will carry us across.". So she sings: "Hansel and Gretel here we stand. Will
you take us over on your back to land?"
Item #: lklrump. Button: Rumpelstilskin. Exquisite detail in three dimension.
Fashioned to a locket available with chain or bowpin. Circa 1880's. Price $70.
From a fairy story by the Brothers Grimm. This wicked dwarf helps the young queen
carry out a deception which had led the king to marry her. In payment he demands
that the queen guess his name in a certain length of time or give him her beautiful
baby boy. On the last day she discovers the name and frees herself.
Item #: lklcst1. Button: Italian villa/Castle, in pewter set within a heart and
fleur de lis border. Fashioned to a locket available with chain or bowpin.
Circa
1880's.
Price $60.
SOLD
Item #: lklchci. Button: Children's Circus. Children playing musical instruments
as a bear dances.
Fashioned to a locket available with chain or bowpin.
Price
$55.
Item #: lkldra4. Button: Dragon in brass high relief, cut out and applied against
a screened background, fashioned to a locket available with chain or bowpin.
Circa 1880. Price $70. SOLD
Item #: lkllflor1. Button: Flower cut out in brass and set against a subtle etched
background, fashioned onto a locket available with chain or bowpin.
Circa 1880's. Price $45. SOLD
Item #: LKL28. Button: Smokey mother of pearl fashioned onto a silvered locket
with chain or bowpin.
Circa 1870's.
Price $45.
Item #: lklgd2. Button: In brass fashioned to a locket available with chain or
bowpin.
Circa 1880's.
Price $45.
Item #: LKL38. Button:
Wild flower in pewter on locket available with chain or bowpin.
Circa 1870's.
Price $45
.
Item #: lklgfl3. Button: Stylized
design in light relief. Fashioned to a locket available with chain or bowpin.
Circa 1880's. Price $50.
SOLD
Item #: lklgd1. Button: Snowflake design as an escutcheon against a wood background.
Fashioned to a locket available with chain or bowpin.
Circa 1880's. Price $45.
Item #: LKL26. Buttons: Mother of pearl fashioned onto a locket available with
chain or bowpin.
Circa 1870's.
Price $45.
Item #: LKL25. Button: Rose cut out in pewter, fashioned onto a locket available
with chain or bowpin.
Circa 1880's.
Price $45.
Item #: LKL43. Button:
Pansies, cut out in brass against a darkened background.
Fashioned to a locket
available with chain or bowpin.
Circa 1880's.
Price $45.
Item #:LKL36. Button: Chrysanthemum in pewter within a brass border.
Fashioned
to a locket available with chain or bowpin.
Circa 1880's.
Price $60.
Item #: LKL44. Button: Floral cut out and attached to wood back, accented with
faceted steel pyrites.
Fashioned to a locket available with chain or bowpin.
Circa 1880's.
Price $60.
Item #: lkldra3. Button: Dragon cut out in brass against a wooden background.
Fashioned to a locket available with chain or bowpin.
Circa 1880's.
Price $60.
Item #: LKL45. Button: Bamboo in detailed tinted brass relief.
Fashioned to
a locket available with chain or bowpin.
Circa 1880's.
Price $50.
SOLD
Item #: LKL46. Button: Snowflake, cut out in detailed brass against a darkened
background.
Fashioned to a locket available with chain or bowpin.
Circa 1890's.
Price $50.
Item #: lkl41. Buttons: In pewter fashioned onto a locket available with chain
or bowpin.
Circa 1880's.
Price $45.
Item #: lklgfl21 Button: Garden tools; a pewter escutcheon applied to a tinted
screen with a Gothic border.
Circa 1880's. Price $45.
Item #: LKL35. An Oriental floral motif in brass. Fashioned to a locket available
with chain or bowpin.
Circa 1880's.
Price $45.
SOLD
Item #: lklgd7. Cornucopia in high relief white metal fashioned to a locket available
with chain or bowpin.
Circa 1880's.
Price $50.
Item #: lklgste. Button: Faceted steel pyrites clustered and fashioned onto a
locket, available with chain or bowpin.
Circa 1870's.
Price $45.
Item #: LKL37. Button: Wild flower in pierced pewter set within a solid brass
border.
Fashioned onto a
locket, available with chain or bowpin.
Circa
1880's.
Price $45.
Item #: lklgd3. Button: A detailed pierced pewter design set within a tinted brass
cup in Gothic-revival style.
Fashioned onto a locket available with chain or bowpin.
Circa 1875.
Price $45.
Item #: lklbrd3 Fashioned onto a locket available with chain or bowpin.
Circa 1875.
Price $45.
Item #: lkl41 Button: Fashioned onto a locket available with chain or bowpin.
Circa 1875.
Price $45.
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