I love a good challenge …. The pendant/charm's obverse outer design is most definitively that of an English Tudor Rose. The second line from the bottom reads Guildford a large town in Surrey, England, 27 miles (34 km) southwest of central metropolitan London. The bottom line's five digit number 73551 is reminiscent of British military serial numbers. However, one would require the text of the first two or three obverse lines to take it much further. I would also venture that the bottom line of the reverse inscription is either a four digit number of a year or a tilde like decorative squiggle. If one could extremely carefully remove the rust/corrosive deposits, further research might be worth pursuing. Respectfully submitted, Sam_I_am
I am reminded of an early slave tag. Some of these earlier tags did have something of an ornate shape to them. I wonder if you tried to do one of those grade school pencil tracings. Lay a paper over the piece and rub it with a pencil and see if the image doesn’t show better on the paper tracing.
Very respectfully, you're dreaming if you think this is a slave tag. If the piece is of English origin, which I suspect because of the Tudor Rose, it's mid-19th century or later because of the obvious deteriorated electro-plating on its obverse. That's way past slavery in Great Britain and even past slavery in its colonies (1838). Anyway, a slave tag would have been much more substantial than a relatively cheap charm such as this. It would help us considerably if benc5123456 would tell us the where & circumstances of his finding this piece of ¿…? The chase/quest is fun, but the piece is not likely worth diddly-squat. Sam_I_am
Thanks for the tip. As long as I've been around collectibles, I admit that I'm still half-Luddite on the computer and such.
