An Australian Rhoda Wager Arts & Crafts silver, gold and opal brooch, the central oval opal with fire evident, small flaw to edge, in rub-over mount framed by gold leaf and berry designs all on a silver frame of tapering bar form, the reverse with applied maker's name 'WAGER' on a silver plaque. Length 6.7 cm. Note: Wager was born in London in 1875, studied at the Bristol School of Art and the Glasgow School of Art from 1897 to 1903 training under the influential metalsmith Bernard Cuzner, a Liberty & Co. designer. Further biographical detail available