Vintage Russian silver and enamel Easter egg pendant

Vintage Russian silver and enamel Easter egg pendantAlways highly sought after are these sweet little Easter egg pendants. Often presented as gifts at Easter time, this sweet little pendant is shaped like an egg, made from 950 silver and enamelled with fine cloisonne enamel in different shades of blues and greens, white, black and red. It has the original silver bale with russian marks for silver. It is quite heavy for a little pendant and would look great on a nice antique silver chain necklace. Marks

They are mourning earrings

We will never know

The ear wires are a replacement

Unmarked for metal content tests as 9ct gold

It has a rich 9ct gold band with very lightly tapered shoulders

mounted to a gold tablet with the reverse featuring hieroglyphics in light relief

one not afraid to show it

a lapel pin

This has a further floral drop set with a red paste and terminates with a lovely articulated pear cut garnet drop

outermost emeralds slightly set back in the setting

later Victorian with a nice 56" length

this can be removed to store a small lock of hair or tiny mementoIt appears to have been enamelled at some stage with some remnants very slightly visible around the star motif