Antique Victorian Green Clover Paste Seed Pearl Sterling Silver Brooch order Pin

Excellent condition. Fresh looking, soft wear is noticeable only on close inspection.

● Silver setting has a bright patina with minor surface wear, no dents.
● Glass sparkles with crisp faceting and no chips or surface wear.
● No seed pearls are missing.
● Clasp is secure and original.


Era Victorian
Length 1 1/8"
Width 7/8"
Mark Yes, see photo
Weight 4.8 grams
Material 830 Silver, natural green tourmaline order and seed pearl


Key Quality
The three leaves of this Victorian clover brooch stand for faith, love and hope (a fourth leaf is for luck). This petite brooch is special for the addition of paste in a unique forest-green hue.

Collector Note

On Symbolism In Jewelry. Symbolism in antique and vintage jewelry is common, yet it can be hard to spot if you don't know what you're looking for. Often, specific natural gemstones, flowers, birds, and motifs like stars and anchors were imbued with meanings that have fallen out of present-day society's collective memory. To appreciate the power of symbols in antique jewelry is to imagine what it would have been like to wear the piece and step back into history.


On Victorian. A young Queen Victoria assumed her role in 1837 and her taste in jewelry quickly became culturally influential, within England and beyond. Her relationship to jewelry was enmeshed with her husband, Prince Albert, who gifted the Queen for their engagement, a snake ring, embedded with an emerald (her birthstone) in its head. Continuing from the Georgian era and intensified by Queen Victoria's taste, sentimental and figural jewelry was a major trend throughout the Victorian era. When certain ideas and words were deemed too forward or improper to be spoken, jewelry and symbolic meaning was used to communicate what was left unsaid.