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Antique 9ct yellow gold jewel beetle necklace c.1900.…
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Antique 9ct yellow gold jewel beetle necklace c.1900. Attributed to Stewart Dawson & Co Jewellers, Hay St Western Australia, active 1898-1965. Featuring 12 jewel beetles, 5 of which are suspended in a festoon fringe design with Stewart Dawson & Co jewellery case. 'An Original Medium of Australian Jewellery Was the Jewel Beetle From the Eucalypt Forests of W.A. This Fashion Is Represented in the Collection of the Royal W.A. Historical Society'. Reference: J.Pearson and T.de Fircks, Jewellery of the Past in Western Australia, TJ Productions, Perth, 1985 Dorothy Erickson, Gold and Silversmithing in Western Australia, UWA Publishing 2010, p.108
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Jewellery: Necklace/Chain