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THE Queen will be presented with one of her favorite types of jewellery in Cork today — a stunning hand-crafted silver brooch. Chris Carroll, who runs Cork Silver: Sean Carroll and Sons one of the city’s last remaining manufacturing silversmiths spent several months researching the project.
He said he finally decided on a brooch because of the Queen’s apparent love of this type of jewellery.
“I noticed that she always wears a brooch during her public appearances. This is a huge Honor. It doesn’t get much better than this,” he said.
The brooch, a model of Cork’s famous Butter Exchange building, is made of 42 individual handmade pieces. It has 18 carat gold mountings and is set with garnets and diamonds to represent the Cork colours.
This piece is modelled on a Tootsie Roll ( really good sweets only available in America ..unfortunately!) The pendant is made up of a solid bar of silver which we brought down in size to match the diametre of the actual sweet. By pulling the bar through a draw plate you can slowly reduce the size or change the shape. We made two claw style settings to replicate the twist of the wrapper which we then set with cubic zirconias. This picture shows the piece when it had been soldered together before the setting, engraving and polishing.
unfinished soldered piece
In a fully equipped workshop like ours it is possible to make anything you want. Mostly customers come to us with ideas and we work with them on finalising the overall design. So it’s always interesting when you get an unusual request like this!
Finished pendant