Exciting set for the collector of nursery rhyme jewelry or for a child beginning to collect. This is a rare set by Ballou. The four characters include:

Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary (how does your garden grow?)

Little Jack Horner (sat in his corner eating a Christmas pie. He put in his thumb and pulled out a plum ...)

Mary Had a Little Lamb (or is it Little Bo Peep?)

Little Miss Muffet (sat on her tuffet, eating her curds and whey ... Along came a spider ...)

This set has garden Mary barefoot, Jack with a man bun, Miss Muffet complete with spider, and Bo or Mary with her white-fleece sheep.

The pins are adorably tiny. Some enameling is gone. Probably 1950s.

Rare set!

(Only one of the pins is marked Ballou because a set)

Note: An English set of nursery-rhyme jewelry sold for ... $20k