Antique Victorian Horseshoe Paste Good Luck selling Rose Gold Filled Pendant

Era: Victorian
Diameter: 1" (excluding bail)
Material: Tests for gold filled, glass
Weight: 7.1 grams
Mark: No mark

Why You'll Love It
Under the radar meaning. Take a closer look at this antique, unmistakably Victorian pendant, as it tells the symbolic tale of good luck selling through its horseshoe motif. In charming miniature and asymmetrically placed, gypsy-set paste in a ruby hue enhances the design and gives its classic silhouette just the right shimmer.

Condition and Quality
● Bright patina with some surface wear to the gold setting at the back. No dents.
● Fresh sheen, light surface wear, and no chipping on the glass.
● Secure, original bai.

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 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.