This lovely pin / brooch is a large, bold and beautiful statement piece of stylized avian/ ornithological nature, more commonly referred to as a bird. It demands the eye of the beholder to fix their gaze in sheer delight of the observance. Mixed metal, dual or tri-metal, your eyes first observe and appreciate the craftsmanship and beauty of the copper/bronze/old gold colored crown, mantle, scapulars and upper breast. Stylized as such to appear as if it is raising it's wings, which touch at the top, to display proudly the beauty of it's plumage with it's head looking coyly left. From the tips of it's wings to the bottom of the brooch is a prideful display of said plumage in meticulously crafted alternating layers of metal. Top to bottom you have copper color, silver color, copper color, silver color layers of fine Craftsmanship.
The metals are untested (by me) and the only engraved Hallmark is a joined pair of letters next to another letter and these are encircled with two fish, one cupping a-top the letters and one cupping below the letters. No borders on any of the rear markings.
The letters H and B combine/ touch with the B line forming the latter half of the H line. Closely adjacent but separate is an F.
To me, the fish pair Hallmark might harken to an Asian influence of yin yang fish except that these fish are top and bottom with heads to the right and left whereas yin yang are more commonly viewed side by side with the heads at the top and bottom. In the field of ichthyology (fish) there is no fish with 4 or 5 dorsal (top/backbone) fins so kudos to the designers' creative license. While each fish is in the similar style the top fish (head to the right) has perhaps casual or perhaps intentional differences as follows: dorsal fins on the upper fish have quantity 4 fins and on the bottom fish (head to the left) have quantity 5 fins.
The pectoral fin on the upper fish is larger than that of the bottom fish. The heads, open mouths, anal fins and tails are more similar to each other on both.
The clasp is C clasp style, with a thickness worthy of the size of this brooch. The pin mechanism attaches at the birds head/ top of the brooch and the C clasp is directly opposite at the birds feet / bottom of the pin.
