Vintage Antique 17th / 18th Century English Foiled Stuart Crystal Stick Pin

Description

A fine antique Stuart Crystal stick pin.

Set with a faceted rock crystal, traces of pink and red foil, and … more A fine antique Stuart Crystal stick pin.

Set with a faceted rock crystal, traces of pink and red foil, and a gold wire cypher.

The pin is likely adapted from an early 17th or 18th Century button. Stuart Crystals memorialized the slain King Charles I and were most often diminutive pieces that had to be worn secretly.

Mounted with a later gold filled pin.

Simply a wonderful early English historical stick pin!

Date:
Late 17th or Early 18th Century (pin mounting likely late 18th or 19th Century)

Overall Condition:
It is in overall fair, as-pictured, used estate condition.

Condition Details:
With some losses to the foil in the pin and bends to the pin stem. Otherwise, there are some fine & light surface scratches and other signs of expected light wear consistent with age.

Fineness:
Gold filled

Marks:
Unmarked

Measurements:
Length: ca. 62 mm
Width: ca. 10 mm
Depth: ca. 8 mm

Weight: ca. 1.5 g less