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function as a
clothes fastener. The
earliest known brooches are from the
Bronze Age. As
fashions in
brooches changed rather quickly, they are
important chronological...
- Tara
Brooch. Pseudo-penannular
brooches may also be
described as "annular", or as "ring
brooches". The
terms "open
brooch" or "open ring
brooch" are also...
- A
Luckenbooth brooch is a
Scottish heart-shaped
brooch.
These brooches often have a
crown above one heart, or two
intertwined hearts. They are typically...
-
wearing a
brooch on an
imperial purple cloak. Fully-sealed
brooches were
fashioned by
rotating the pin
within the gap by 90 degrees.
Penannular brooches were...
- shapes, but all were
based on the safety-pin principle.
Unlike most
modern brooches,
fibulae were not only decorative; they
originally served a
practical function:...
-
Richard Hattatt's
Ancient Brooches, 1989,
Oxbow Books Hunter, Fraser, "Changing
Objects in
Changing Worlds:
Dragonesque Brooches and
Beaded Torcs", In A...
-
surviving Irish Celtic brooches, and "arguably the
earliest of the
ornate penannular brooches from
Britain and Ireland". The
Hunterston brooch may have been made...
- her collection. She
owned more than 300
items of jewellery,
including 98
brooches, 46 necklaces, 37 bracelets, 34
pairs of earrings, 20 tiaras, 15 rings...
- 8th-century
brooches. The ****d was
unearthed during rock-blasting for the
construction of the
Sutherland Railway. A
workman found the
collection of
brooches in...
-
April 1909 the
first brooches were
distributed at a
large meeting at the
Albert Hall
organised by the WSPU. The
first brooches were
presented by Christabel...
