MYTHOLOGY
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Item #: lksrd120 myth. Button: Fortuna, goddess of fortune and chance on a small locket. Circa 1880's. Price $45.




Item #: brooc53. Button: Minerva (Athena), Goddess of Battle, Wisdom, Women's Handcrafts. In gilt brass. 1 3/8" diameter. Circa 1880's. Price $65.




Item #: brook54. Button: Hector, King of Troy and their bravest warrior. In cut out detailed pewter set on a painted back. Circa 1880's. Price $60.




Item #: brooc59. Button: Artemis (Diana); Goddess of chastity, birth, moon, patron to huntsmen. 1 1/8 diameter. Brooch.
Circa 1880's. Price $60.




Item #: brooc56. Button: Minerva (Athena). Planted the olive tree as symbol of peace although she was the goddess of battle. Cut out in open brass. 1 3/8" diameter. Brooch. Circa 1880's. Price $55.




Item #: brooc60. Button: Mythological Winged Creature. 1 1/2" diameter. Circa 1880's. Price $55.




Item #: brooc57. Button: Jupiter and Minerva. Brass escutcheon against a wood background. 1 1/2" diameter.
Circa 1880's. Price $60.




Item #: brooc49. Button: Neptune (Poseidon), Sea God; and old Italian Deity. 1 1/2" diameter. Price $60.




Item #: brooc55. Button: Phaethon, son of the sun god, Helios. In raised brass. 1 1/2" diameter. Brooch. Circa 1880's. Price $70.




Item #: brooc52. Button: Dragon, in light brass relief. Paris. 1 1/2" diameter. Brooch. Circa 1880's. Price $60.




Item #: brooc51. Button: King Arthur, legendary King of Britain. In cut out brass against a darkened background.
1 5/8" diameter. Brooch. Circa 1880's. Price $110.




Item #: brooc50. Button: Aeneas, from the adventures as recounted by Virgil. Subject in pewter. Brooch. 1 3/8" diameter. Price $110.




Item #: brooc58. Button: Dragon, cut out in brass on tinted background. Brooch. 1 1/2" diameter. Circa 1880's.
Price $60.




Item #: myth3. Chinese Dragon Slayer, brooch. Circa 1880's. Price $60.


 



Item #: myth2. 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 Enenhall. 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. It is said that the goblet is still in the possession of the Musgrove family in Cumberland, England. Fashioned onto a small locket with chain or bowpin. Circa 1880's. Price $45.


 



Item #: myth1.Artemis (Roman-Diana). Daughter of Zeus and Leto, twin sister of Apollo. A virgin huntress goddess. She was the goddess of chastity and had the power of inflicting or healing sickness. She was particularly connected with childbirth and was the protectress of the unborn and the newly born. As the goddess of birth she became connected with the lunar cycle and hence was a moon goddess. She passed even into the bible as "Diana of the Ephestians" (acts 19). Under the name of Agrotera she was the patron of huntsmen and often depicted with hunting dogs. Fashioned into a necklace.1 1/8". Circa 1880's. Price $60.SOLD


 



Item #: myth4. Dragon, fashioned onto a money clip. Circa 1880's. Price $45.


 



Item #: brooc64.The Falcon Huntress, as a necklace. Circa 1880's. Price $60.



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