Vintage Arthur Pepper Purple Glass Brooch

This piece is absolutely fantastic! One of a kind brooch signed ART. (Arthur Pepper). Gold tone with long jointed dangles with faux pearl like pieces and red AB glass rhinestones. The purple stones are glass as well. There are a few callouts on this brooch. On the center dangle under purple stones when I got this piece the gold tone was black. Looked like an ink pin exploded. I used gold leaf and was able to cover the black on the gold. You can see that two of the faux pearls also had the black… I did try to dab them to cover the black and make them white again. It does look a ton better than it did when I got it, but you can still see… the next thing I noticed is the Heart charm looks like it had faux pearls on it that are not there. In the center dangle it appears something else was hanging from the bottom. It’s about 4.5” long, and even with the three things that I mentioned this is still an absolutely stunning brooch. And there’s so much to look at that. You really don’t notice.