French sterling silver lady's brooch, circa World War One, from my collection; the emblems are a lucky horseshoe, two clusters of lucky four-leaf clovers, and the cross of Lorraine, a symbol of the French nation. Fine quality pieces of "sweetheart jewelry" such as this were sold as souvenirs to British and American soldiers during the war, in which American troops participated from April 6, 1917 through November 11, 1918; the Cross of Lorraine figures in many of them as a locational remembrance, signifying that the item was made by a French jeweler and commemorating the debt France owed to those who came from abroad to free France from German control. I found this pin in an antiques shop in northern California in the late 1990s. How it got there is an story that it cannot tell, but it was probably brought home by a returning veteran as a gift for his lover. I hope they married and had a long and happy life.
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(P.S.: The menorah is Psalms 67, but there is extra wordage around it.)
