Vintage Italian Micro Mosaic Heart Brooch - Romantic Heirloom Jewelry, Venice Love Story, 1960S Floral Glass Tesserae Pin

Beschreibung:
I am letting go of a few family heirlooms, but never without their stories. This brooch belonged to my mother, Arielle, who worked in a French travel agency in the 1960s, arranging tickets for the legendary Simplon-Orient-Express. As family lore goes, she boarded that very train in Paris, bound for Venice. Somewhere between Paris & the Alps she quarreled with a stranger in an elegant three-piece suit who reminded her of Marcello Mastroianni. They argued over the draft from the window, but by the time the train rolled into Venezia Santa Lucia station, their bickering had softened into laughter, carried by a shared love of books & old films. That night they walked the canals of Venice until dawn, talking as though time itself had slowed to listen. They met only once more, at the station when she had to return to Paris. Just before she boarded, he pressed this mosaic heart into her hand. "Flowers that last forever, so you remember me," he said. & then he was gone. She said she never saw him again, but she kept the heart all her life, & whenever she looked at it, a mischievous smile always returned to her face & she looked like a young girl again. Vintage Italian Micro Mosaic Heart Brooch - Romantic Heirloom Jewelry, Venice Love Story, 1960S Floral Glass Tesserae Pin