Bee Brooch with tiger's eye body and enamel abdomen and diamond wings. Bee sure not to miss this item......bee's are here to help our polination for our nations!ll Ruby eyes set in 18ct gold with silver around the rose cut diamonds (acid tested). Victorian circa 1870. Bee  jewellery represented the love token 'be mine' . Napoleon made it his emblem,  The Bee Symbol of immortality and resurrection, the bee was chosen so as to link the new dynasty to the very origins of France. Golden bees (in fact, cicadas) were discovered in 1653 in Tournai in the tomb of Childeric I, founder in 457 of the Merovingian dynasty and father of Clovis. They were considered as the oldest emblem of the sovereigns of France (27.50mm x 25mm)  1 5⁄64 inches x 0 63⁄64inches