Antique Victorian Gold Filled Bracelet H&B PAT JULY 1874 Etched Floral Enamel

This is a Victorian-style hinged bangle bracelet featuring a Taille d'Épargne technique, where the gold surface is engraved and filled with black enamel. Marked H & B Antique Victorian era. • Technique: niello , Taille d'Épargne (also known as black enamel tracery), a popular 19th-century metalworking technique where detailed geometric and floral lines are engraved into the metal and filled with opaque black enamel. Sludge scratching see photos Missing safety chain July 21 1874 These are antique gold-filled (not solid gold) hinged bangle bracelets from the late 1800s. Worthpoint The black decorative inlay you see is a technique called niello — a dark metallic compound used to fill engraved designs, giving that striking gold-and-black contrast. ~150 years old (genuinely Victorian era) 11.48 grams  For smaller wrists less than 6.5