The Arrow and the Mouse
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The Arrow and the Mouse
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.