Antique Arts & Crafts Era 15 Karat Gold Buckle with Amethyst and Blister Pearl Citrine This wonderful Italian carving features

This wonderful Italian carving features the God Jupiter

When it falls on the weekend

England in 1906

symbolic of hope and the color of spring and new life

the shank splits to form a triple knot of rich

Antique Arts & Crafts Era 15 Karat Gold Buckle with Amethyst and Blister Pearl Citrine This wonderful Italian carving featuresLate Victorian and early Edwardian womens fashions were all about the waist. Nipped and tucked had way different connotations back then, it wasnt about doctors and surgery, it was about corsets, corsets, and even tighter corsets. To accent this most desired section of anatomy a woman would wear a sash about the waist and an elaborate and most beautiful buckle at the front, and sometimes at the back as well. I dont usually buy these as they arent used