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Unusual 15 carat Victorian novelty brooch with a mouse  sitting atop a beswagged arrow c.1880.

High quality design,finely modelled, 3 inches long.

A short-lived fashion for mouse jewels in the late 1870s popularised by the Bond St jeweller Walter Thornhill(who registered a parure of mice in 1880) was one of many 'naturalistic' crazes including frogs,crabs,flies and prawns leading to quite a menagerie of lacepins.

The Arrow and the Mouse

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