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So the history behind these in general - "micromosaics", wearable mosaic art, hand-crafted sometime in the 1600s-1800s most likely, hard to date exactly because they were MASS produced in Italy as tourist trinkets, often by still-training artisans honing their craft before moving onto bigger and better works. The history behind these two in particular - a decade ago or so, I wound up helping a random friend sell some of his late wife's antiques collection on ebay, neither of us realizing just how incredibly vast and valuable it was; he was happy for the money, I was happy to see all the things leave storage and enter homes where they would be truly appreciated again, and I learned a hell of a lot of history along the way, which was a nice bonus!

a micro-mosaic brooch pin, slightly larger than the dime beside it for scale, depicting an exterior scene of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, all constructed from colored rectangular slivers of glass smaller than fingernail clippings
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