12-12-2023, 07:50 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-12-2023, 07:52 PM by Duncan Grimmond.)
Even back then diamonds would have made it a very pricey novelty IMHO (in a former life I was a working jeweller). At the time silver was probably about 2/- to 2/6d per ounce (Troy weight of a Florin or Half-crown? silver coins were actually silver in them thar days) and I'd suggest paste to be a more likely "sparkler" ...the price for a 9ct gold badge brooch started 9? suggesting shillings, so either 9/? or more likely 99/11 (just short of a fiver for gold), with silver at 1/? or more likely 11/? shillings.