Art Deco Miami Vice Butterfly Wing Brooch seal fobs meaning a poem or poetic

meaning a poem or poetic line

with an hourglass (indicating time has stopped for the deceased) on one shoulder and a pickaxe and spade on the other (the gravediggers' tools)

They were made at a time when paste was a relatively new technology (its basically a form of leaded glass with different additives to display colour)

seemingly some sort of falcon/hawk/raptor

Florus wrote: "Caesar's power now inspired the envy of Pompey

Art Deco Miami Vice Butterfly Wing Brooch seal fobs meaning a poem or poeticDATE: Art Deco, c. 1930 **RESERVED for BP** Striking Art Deco brooch featuring a pair of palm trees hanging over the ocean with mountains in the background. The colour palette has a distinct Miami Vice flavour, with hand painted blues and pinks over an iridescent blue morpho (real) butterfly wing background. Made and signed by Thomas L Mott, who presented his first butterfly wing brooches at the 1924 British Exposition, before acquiring two other