VICTORIAN / EDWARDIAN ANTIQUE SILVER AND OTHER JEWELRY, LOT OF SEVEN,comprising a French 0.800 silver lorgnette with a shaped handle having shell covering and gold-washed folding glasses/spectacles, a gold-filled necklace by H.F. Barrows Co. of North Attleboro, MA featuring a pendant set with three seed pearls, a tri-color gold-filled cuff bracelet having a round medallion top with a bird and two beads with butterflies, a gold-filled bar brooch/pin featuring bug to top set with a tigers eye cabochon housed in a possibly original presentation box from John W. Taliaferro Jeweler of Harrisonburg, VA, a large bar brooch set with a banded agate cabochon in a silver-toned frame, and two garnet brooches. Some pieces marked, lorgnette with French boar's head hallmark for 0.800 silver fineness and an unidentified maker's mark. Fourth quarter 19th/early 20th century.Necklace 18" L.
Provenance: From the John H. and Joan S. Byrd estate collection, Harrisonburg, VA.