Boehmer Bros. Berlin 14K Seed Pearl Star Stick Pin

As some of you know, I am a third generation Kitchenerite. In my Grandmother‘s youth, Kitchener was known as Berlin. I am not sentimental about the place, but I still found myself on eBay, bidding on this vintage stick pin housed in a box marked “Boehmer Bros Jewelers and Opticians Berlin.”

I did a little research and found directory mentions of the Boehmer Bros. Store going back 1906 (Berlin changed names in 1916), which would fit the time frame for this kind of jewellery. The seller was in Waterloo, and I was intrigued that this little jewel had travelled so very little in its lifetime. Now it has arrived in the T-Dot, I’ll have to take it out for a spin.