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the finely carved cameo depicting the bust of a girl, contrasting the smoothness of her skin and her ornate hairstyle with curls front and sides, and a snood retaining a bun at the back, revealing the edge of her ear and pendant earring, a bead necklace at the base of her neck, the cameo collet mounted with a bead and wire outer frame, unmarked but tests for gold, length 5.5cm; the first of the bar brooches with a central open diaper set with a round cut light blue sapphire and four seed pearls, the bar stamped '15ct, 18ct', the pin '9ct', length 5.1cm; the second with a flowerhead centre of a round cut amethyst with seed pearl petals (one lacking), length 5.2cm; the third with a split bar set at one end with a canted line of a square cut sapphire between two seed pearls, stamped '9ct', length 4.8cm; and lastly a hallmarked 18ct gold pin, Birmingham 1905, with a quatrefoil flower between two leaves all set with seed pearls, length 3.2cm; the brooch (Qty: 5)

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