sparkling antique paste crescent moon hat or hair pin decoration - 1800s old cut 1820s There are tiny breaks in

There are tiny breaks in the fine jet beneath the swirled crown but you don’t see this unless you look very closely

or add some more symmetrical sunray pintucks had been my plan that I didn’t get around to executing

and hand felled lining

If I were keeping for my own collection I think I would remove the clips and polish with metal paste

Slightly fitted shape

sparkling antique paste crescent moon hat or hair pin decoration - 1800s old cut 1820s There are tiny breaks inThis is really beautiful 19th century old foil back paste looks like an old mine cut to the stone. Its really very sparkly. Hat pin or perhaps use as hair pin? slight point but the point is fairly blunt. Crescent moon shape, with nice big stones! Measures: 15cm total height, moon is just over 3cm high Condition: Pin a little scuffed, but fairly straight. May have been silver plated as some age darkening, looks like a base metal underneath. Immediately