Vintage Boucheron Snail Brooch 5-Stone Rings and it's particularly exciting to

and it's particularly exciting to find such a small example

Brilliant Cut Diamonds - G-VS2 minimum

Natural Aquamarine - 18

Chinese gold marks

Vintage Boucheron Snail Brooch 5-Stone Rings and it's particularly exciting toDATE: Vintage, c. 1960 A fantastic terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc (aka snail) brooch by Boucheron Paris. It dates from the 1960s, part of their popular animal range, with stunning guilloch enamelled shell and diamond set body. The cultural significance of snails tends to focus on their slowness, often manifesting as lethargy or laziness (sloth as per the seven deadly sins is linked with the snail in Christian tradition). Greek poet Hesiod