Antique Victorian Paste 3-Dimensional Cube Gold popular Filled Watch Fob Charm Pendant

Era: Late Victorian
Length: 3/4" (excluding bail)
Width: 3/8"
Mark: No mark
Material: Tests for gold filled, glass

Why You'll Love It
Tiny details are made all the more mesmerizing given this Victorian charms petite size. An angular cube shape is softened by foliate designs and shimmering red and blue paste on every single side, an uncommon feature. Likely worn as a charm on a watch chain originally, this rose gold-filled piece has a silhouette well suited for charm on bracelet or pendant on a favorite chain.

Condition and Quality
● Bright patina with minimal surface wear to the setting. No dents.
● Fresh sheen, some light surface wear, and no chipping on the glass.
● All paste stones are intact and in place.
● Secure, original bail.

Collector Note
On Symbolism In Jewelry. Symbolism in antique and vintage jewelry is common, yet it can be hard to spot if you don't know what you're looking for. Often, specific natural gemstones, flowers, birds, and motifs like stars and anchors were imbued with meanings that have fallen out of present-day society's collective memory. To appreciate the power of symbols in antique popular jewelry is to imagine what it would have been like to wear the piece and step back into history.

On Victorian. A young Queen Victoria assumed her role in 1837 and her taste in jewelry quickly became culturally influential, within England and beyond. Her relationship to jewelry was enmeshed with her husband, Prince Albert, who gifted the Queen for their engagement, a snake ring, embedded with an emerald (her birthstone) in its head. Continuing from the Georgian era and intensified by Queen Victoria's taste, sentimental and figural jewelry was a major trend throughout the Victorian era. When certain ideas and words were deemed too forward or improper to be spoken, jewelry and symbolic meaning was used to communicate what was left unsaid.