Steampunk brooch nb3

Size: 3,8 cm. Brass and silver, .... mobile "wings".
And that little "gem" is in fact epoxy with nailpolish (I like to experiment)
For sale: [link]

Updated image, again (oct 09)

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 "My Antikimena deflector has kept me safe from Golem attentions,
but on sunny days I no longer cast the correct shadow."  Tim Powers
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Excerpt of Myron Salazar Drake's Journal

Paris 4th September 1875

After my discovery of how to gain power from the creatures that made my life miserable for so long, I quickly learned that they had some very powerful allies and that I needed to shield myself from them. First I had to find out how to detect their presence as they are not visible most of the time. It is a bit like determining the place where a stone fell in the water, by looking at the ripples on the surface of the water. As a matter of fact these elusive creatures seem to be made of stone or use stone as a sort of « disguise ». I am certain that they are what some people call « golems » they can be called and trapped into mud* if you know how....

In my poem « Malaga », I made a reference to these terrifying creatures
« "... Soft laughter in the shadows and the smell of musk,
Sand dunes like grim guardians molded of clay..." »