Description
The top of the posy holder has 3 retractable pins which dissect one another to hold the flowers in place and a fine chain at the bottom with loop to slip onto a finger or belt. The beautiful matching cake topper vase has a small square base instead of the chain, but in every other major detail it matches the posy holder. Taken from the actual jewellery die stamps produced by hand cutting into steel, in the Marais district in Paris in the early 1900s. Sadly these particular jewellery making skills are reputed to have been lost in the battlefields of WW1 at Verdun. The stamp used for these flower holders was rediscovered in the 1970s/1980s when they were made in France, silver plated in the U.K., and carefully stored until the present day, so – vintage yet new! They were sold in top London stores
