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#159071 05/21/2006 08:03 PM
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Could you fella's give me your expert opinion as to what these wings represent, are they common, scarce,or rare to find. Price range?

Von Ryan

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Wings Obv

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Wings Close-Up Obv

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#159075 05/21/2006 10:30 PM
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The makers mark, (winged S) is the makers mark of the Shiebler silver company. This silver company is well known for its fine quality silver. Mostly victorian era stuff. Shiebler silver is highly sought after in the antiques world. The George W. Shiebler company was in bussiness from 1876-1915 out of New York city. These must be very early wings , for whom or what I do not know.

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This seems to be some sort of jewelery with an Egyptian motif.

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Dear von Ryan,

This type of straight drop in catch was found on US wings of the 20s to 30s. I agree that it does look Egyptian in motif. Could this be some airline wing for an Egyptian airline?

Gary B

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Everyone so far says Egyptian but for some reason I recall see something like them from China.I could be wrong. Cool


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Unfortunately the only person who could have told me exactly what this is, was my Mom and she just passed away a couple of weeks ago. I came across them in her small apartment as I was cleaning up. She always kept the military type things of my Dads, he was in the Air Corps, shot down over Germany in Dec 44 spent the rest of time in POW camp. I even have ALL the notices sent to her from the US Air Corps of my Dads dissappearance and POW statis. Sooo I really don't know what the pin signifies.

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It may not even be military at all.

Jewelry pieces with Egyptian motifs were very popular in the period surrounding the discovery of King Tut’s tomb in 1922. Also at that time it was not unusual for women to wear ‘pins’ and other decorations that they no longer wear today.

Many Egyptian pieces also combined disparate items like this one – both wings (something that flies) and a serpent (something that crawls). It's hard to tell from the pics but it also looks like it has a scarab in the center. The scarab (dung beetle) has been a symbol used in Egypt for several thousand years.



Regardless of what it represents the quality is obvious.

#159081 07/24/2006 10:35 PM
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Any chance someone would pay to have this example? ANY idea what I should ask for it?

Von Ryan


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