Chatelaine pins, watch pins, and stick pins featuring chimera or griffin-like creatures were quite popular and produced by most of the fine American jewelry manufacturing companies around the turn of the 20th century.

This elegant Art Nouveau griffin or griffin-dragon pin is finely rendered of 14k gold (unmarked, but acid tested) with a ruby eye.

The brooch has a hook at the bottom that was once used to hang a chatelaine or watch, and it measures 1.1 inches from top to bottom by 1.3 inches wide.

The piece is in excellent condition.

Materials: 14k gold, 14k, gold, ruby.