Victorian Silver & Garnet, Enamel Brooch Pin, 1800's Antique Converted Jewelry. Small Carbuncle Garnet outlet Buttons, Components, Brooch Pin

Victorian Silver, Gold & Garnet, Enamel Brooch Pin, 1800's Antique Converted Jewelry. Small Carbuncle Garnet Buttons, Components, Now a Brooch Pin, please see that this is not in an original form, often jewelry through the decades/centuries; work has been done or to revive a piece to a more "fashionable" for a new era, a jewel was converted to make "new" of a past style. The bezels holding the stones are very heavy with patina, but do test for genuine gold.

This piece could have been vest buttons or? I would adore seeing it made into dangle earrings with a long backed ear wire.
1 3/4 IN x 7/8 IN Width approx
1800's, outlet aka 19th Century
Converted to a brooch, by solder and I see epoxy
Sold to wear or to create yet another design for the 21st Century
1860's? approx decade, time