TWO CELTIC REVIVAL BROOCHES, ONE BY WEST & SON, DUBLIN, 1840S

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January 21, 06:17 PM GMT

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1,000 - 1,500 GBP

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LUGGALA, PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE HON. GARECH BROWNE

TWO CELTIC REVIVAL BROOCHES, ONE BY WEST & SON, DUBLIN, 1840S

Each modelled as a Celtic fibula brooch, one inscribed PHM, dated 14 Nov 1849, signed West & Son, Dublin, Wicklow gold, the other unsigned.

Cf.: Charlotte Gere and Judy Rudoe, Jewellery in the Age of Queen Victoria: a Mirror to the World, London, 2010, pg. 447 no. 444, for an illustration of a very similar brooch based on a bronze age original, from a catalogue of jewels by West & Son's rivals Waterhouse & Co., dated 1872.