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Title: Unidentified Victorian brooch
Post by: noytd on Friday 01 May 20 11:55 BST (UK)
I was looking through a family CdV album, and I spotted something. In three photographs the same brooch appears always worn at the neck. It is worn by a mother and daughter combination.

They were not wealthy aristocrats or gentry, so that would rule out some sort of high end decoration. I just wondered if anybody might have any ideas as it is an item that has cropped up a few times, so I am assuming that it meant something to them.

These are the best close ups that I have been able to get.

(https://i.ibb.co/nRpQDYG/brooch-2.jpg) (https://imgbb.com/)

(https://i.ibb.co/xGPJjfx/brooch-3.jpg) (https://imgbb.com/)

(https://i.ibb.co/F8k6b4x/brooch-1.jpg) (https://imgbb.com/)
Title: Re: Unidentified Victorian brooch
Post by: DebPat on Friday 01 May 20 12:05 BST (UK)
Appears to be an "Order of the Garter star" ???
Title: Re: Unidentified Victorian brooch
Post by: tonepad on Friday 01 May 20 12:41 BST (UK)
It could be a Coldstream Guards cap badge:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coldstream_Guards


Tony
Title: Re: Unidentified Victorian brooch
Post by: noytd on Friday 01 May 20 13:34 BST (UK)
It could be a Coldstream Guards cap badge:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coldstream_Guards


Tony

Many thanks, her son was in the Coldstream Guards  :)