Vintage Reverse-Painted Crystal Sailboat Pin

Small boats under glass are a whole quiet category of antique jewellery: the thing a person wore to say where they would rather be. The reverse-painted crystal is the painted descendant of the carved rock crystal intaglios the trade calls Essex crystals, a Victorian invention of around 1860 that stayed in fashion into the 1930s. The image is worked on the back of the dome so that it appears to float inside it.

One of one. Sold as found.

No returns - as is.