Mid Victorian Hercules & Minerva Gryllus Cameo Brooch iron A beautiful Swiss pocket watch

A beautiful Swiss pocket watch featuring a gem set swallow with olive branch on the front case within a wonderfully chased orange blossom border

after deposits were discovered in California in 1892

it opens up to reveal the glass compartments

It ran 18 exhibitions in total from 1903 to 1923

Mid Victorian Hercules & Minerva Gryllus Cameo Brooch iron A beautiful Swiss pocket watchDATE: Etruscan Revival, c. 1870 Incredible mid Victorian cameo brooch featuring a Gryllus comprising the heads of Athena Minerva and Heracles Hercules, as well as the lion's head famously worn by the latter. The Grylli (essentially referring to any group of conjoined heads) was thought to ward off the evil eye, and protect the wearer from demonic spirits. They were often a combination of beasts and humans with mythical associations. This example is