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A collection of five 19th century paste set brooches, the first with an oval enamel portrait of a blonde girl looking over her shoulder, within a border of round cut white pastes, length 4.1cm; also a horseshoe and riding crop brooch with a fancy cut pale lemon stone claw set within the horseshoe, delineated, like the crop, by round cut white pastes with a ropetwist keeper, length 4.3cm; the third a hoop of white and near-white round cut pastes another similar below and a larger stone in the centre, all closed back set, length 5.1cm; also a bar brooch set with a cushion cut and two round cut pale lemon stones joined by divergent lines of small round white pastes and embellished with similarly set trefoils and quatrefoils, all closed back, length 3.6cm; and lastly a small bow with pendant drop set with round white pastes, the white metal stamped '900', width 1.6cm (5)

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