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YOU ARE BIDDING ON A DELICATE ANTIQUE GUILLOCHE ENAMEL STERLING SILVER SLIDE PENDANT
THIS ESTATE FIND IS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION
AT FIRST I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST A GUILLOCHE ENAMEL PENDANT,BUT IF YOU SLIDE IT OPEN IT REVEALS MUCH MORE
ON THE BACK OF THE GUILLOCHE PENDANT YOU WILL FIND A MEDAL THAT STATES ” ST.JOSEPH PRAY FOR US “
THEN THERE IS A SECOND PENDANT WITH A PICTURE OF THE VIRGIN MARY
IT ALSO HAS INSCRIBED : “O MARY CONCEIVED WITHOUT SIN PRAY FOR US
WHO HAVE RECOURSE TO THEE ” THEN THERE IS A DATE UNDER MARY’S FEET
OF 1830………ON THE BACK OF THE SAME MEDAL ARE SOME SYMBOLS I DO NOT KNOW WHAT THEY MEAN,PLEASE SEE PICTURES FOR DETAILS AND “STERLING” IN WRITING
THE PENDANT IS 3/4″ LONG AND 1/2″ WIDE
THIS IS A GREAT COLLECTORS ITEM OR GIFT
BEING OFFERED AT A VERY LOW STARTING BID AS ALL MY AUCTIONS ARE
GOOD LUCK TO YOU AND AS ALWAYS PLEASE REMEMBER TO SUPPORT OUR TROOPS:)
Engine turning machines were first used in the 1500–1600s on soft materials like ivory and wood and in the 18th century it was adopted for metal such as gold and silver.[1][2]
The last machines were manufactured around 1948–1949.[3]
In the 1920s and ’30s, automobile parts such as valve covers, which are right on top of the engine, were also engine-turned. Similarly, dashboards or the instrument panel of the same were often engine-turned. Customizers also would decorate their vehicles with engine-turning panels similarly.
Guilloche describes a narrow instance of guilloche: a design, frequently architectural, using two curved bands that interlace in a pattern around a central space. Some dictionaries give only this definition of guilloche, although others include the broader meaning associated with guilloché as a second meaning. Note that in the original sense, even a straight line can be guilloché, and persons using the French spelling and pronunciation generally intend the broader, original meaning.[4][5][6] Translucent enamel was applied over guilloché metal by Peter Carl Fabergé on the Faberge eggs and other pieces from the 1880s.[7]
[edit] In today’s terminology
In consequence of the nature of the design, which is usually a series of lines that are, or look very much like they are interwoven into one another, any design engraved on metal, printed, or otherwise erected on surfaces such as wood or stone, that go in a similar style of constant wriggling that interlock Рor look like they are interlocking Рwith one another, is referred to as guilloch̩.
Some of the more common ones are the following:
Engraved (in metal, mainly sterling): in fine timepieces (mainly pocket watches), fine pens, jewelry charms, snuffboxes, hair-styling accessories, wine goblets etc. Examples of famous works of Guilloché are the engravings on Faberge eggs.
Erected: on stone for architecture, in wood for styling, on furniture or molding, etc.
Printed: on bank notes, currency or certificates, etc., to protect against forged copies. The pattern used in this instance is called a spirograph in mathematics, that is, a hypotrochoid generated by a fixed point on a circle rolling inside a fixed circle. It has parametric equations. These patterns bear a strong resemblance to the designs produced on the Spirograph, a children’s toy.
[edit] Other names for Guilloché
The engine turning machine characteristic of Guilloché is called by other names in specific uses:
Rose engine (metalwork)
straight line engine turning Tour à guilloché (metalwork)
Holtzapffel lathe, named after the founder of an ornamental lathe manufacturer John Jacob Holtzapffel
Decoration lathe (metalwork)
damaskeening (watch movements and horology)
Geometric lathe (security printing)
Cycloidal engines (security printing)
Ornamental turning or ornamental lathe (woodcarving).
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