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The ring brooch is a typical example.  Circular and heart-shaped ring brooches are medieval in origin and were used throughout northern Europe with traditional dress.  They differ from modern brooches in the way they fasten.  The wearer pulls the cloth of the garment through the central hole, and then spears it with the pin.  The greater the strain on the pin, the more secure the fastening.\r\n\r\nPlain ring brooches like this one, made of deeply curved sheet silver, are typical of central and northern Sweden, particularly Dalarna province.  Women wore them to hold a scarf in place at the neck.  By the end of the 19th century they were popular throughout Sweden, and were sold through mail-order catalogues as typical traditional jewellery.  The lozenge-shaped pendants are characteristically Nordic.  \r\n\r\nThis brooch has the Swedish 'cat's foot' silver mark, two indistinct characters, possibly T3, and the maker's mark AGM.  Anders Gustaf Millberg was a silversmith who worked in Stockholm from 1860 to 1888.  The characters may be a date mark, but if so do not fit the maker's mark.  The brooch itself gives no clues as to its age, as this shape was used unaltered over a long period of time.  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