This is a sweet little antique brooch from the late 1800s. It is a horse shoe in solid 14k yellow gold with a piece of branch coral. The horseshoe shape was a good luck symbol and coral was believed to help with long life. The pin measures 7/8" tall, has an open "C" clasp typical of the time period, and is in excellent condition. It is not marked, but was acid-tested as 14k solid gold, but this is just the horseshoe shaped area itself - the mechanism is not 14k gold. 9655