ANTIQUE / VINTAGE 10K AND 14K GOLD, AND POSSIBLY OTHER, BROOCHES / PINS, LOT OF FOUR, comprising a 14K yellow gold bow-form bar pin with filigree designs and center featuring a single-cut diamond, a 10K yellow gold bar pin set with center round-cut blue topaz flanked by two seed pearls, a brooch/pin with a large oval-cut amethyst stone measuring approximately 20 x 15 x 10 mm in a bezel setting testing as 14K gold fineness but possibly rolled-gold with a non-gold pin fastener, and a carved shell cameo brooch in a setting that tests as 10K gold fineness but possibly rolled-gold and a marked "10K" hinged pendant bail, cameo featuring an outdoor scene with a tree and figure in the foreground and a house in the background, each with pin fastener. Each marked or tested for gold fineness. Total weight of the two bar pins including stones: 5.9 grams. 19th/20th century. Cameo brooch 1 1/2" x 1 7/8" OA.
Provenance: From the John H. and Joan S. Byrd estate collection, Harrisonburg, VA.
Good to excellent overall condition with minor to moderate wear, surface scratches, and/or nicks, pin fasteners with slight bending; amethyst example with possibly replaced pin, currently difficult to fasten. Stones not professionally graded.