Victorian Bohemian Garnet Star Shape Locket Pendant Necklace Brooch Pin
Located in Monroe Township, NJ
The versatile design serves as a locket, pendant, pin, or brooch, showcasing a hinged compartment on the backside that securely opens and closes.
Garnet, Silver
Victorian Bohemian Garnet Locket Pendant Necklace and Brooch Star Belle Epoque
Located in New York, NY
This is a gorgeous Belle Epoque - Victorian Bohemian Garnet Locket Pendant or Brooch in a stunning star motif.
Garnet, Silver, Gilt Metal
$995Sale Price|23% Off
Art Deco Locket Guilloche Enamel Flower Basket Pendant Brooch Sterling Silver
Located in New York, NY
The bale may be lowered and the locket also worn as a brooch. The hand painted enamel flowers are gorgeous with pink roses and blue forget-me-nots.
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Antique 10K Gold Victorian Swivel Mourning Cameo Brooch Locket Tooth & Hair 1860
Located in Portland, OR
A fine antique 10k yellow gold carved shell swivel cameo mourning brooch/locket, with hair & a tooth under crystal to the rear, circa 1860.
Gold
French Aucoc 19th Century Antique Cameo Natural Pearls Locket Pendant Brooch
Located in Poitiers, FR
Brooch / pendant in 18 karat yellow gold, eagle's head hallmark. Octagonal shaped with an openwork circle pattern and studded with natural pearls, this pendant holds a cameo on 4-lay...
Agate, Pearl, Natural Pearl, Gold, 18k Gold, Yellow Gold
Antique Victorian Mourning Cross Pendant in Gold, Silver, Pearls, Diamonds.
Located in Malmö, Skåne län
Families would preserve the hair of the deceased in lockets, brooches, or intricately woven jewelry, creating keepsakes that honored memory and loss.
Diamond, Pearl, Gold, 14k Gold, Silver
Victorian Diamond Pearl Enamel 18K Gold Antique Fan Dog Locket Pendant Brooch
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Designed as a highly rendered fan suspending from optional filigree bale Fan is deigned with pierced sticks at base with ornately decorated pleats Engraved with fanning feather motif...
Diamond, Pearl, Gold, 18k Gold, Yellow Gold, Enamel
Victorian 19th-Century Leather Pendant and Locket Box
Located in Braintree, GB
The elongated interior contains a discreet horizontal retaining loop near the top, making it particularly suitable for a pendant, locket, pendant brooch, watch fob, small medal or ve...
Other
Diamond "Dragonfly" Pendant with 0.35 Carats Mixed Old Cut Diamonds in Platinum
Located in Sherman Oaks, CA
This pendant was originally the top of an elaborate locket brooch -- a typical piece of sentimental Late Victorian or Early Edwardian "chatelaine" jewelry, where some functionality ...
Diamond, White Diamond, Platinum
Antique Onyx and Gold Locket Pendant with Pearls, 19th Century
Located in Rotterdam, NL
Onyx was a particularly cherished material in Victorian jewelry, often used in sentimental or mourning lockets due to its refined, somber elegance. During the mid to late 19th centur...
Onyx, Pearl, Cultured Pearl, Gold
Antique Florentine Large Etruscan Revival 14K Yellow Gold Locket Pendant
Located in New York, NY
A hinged pinstem and a hinged bale allow for wear as both a brooch and a pendant. Circular locket compartment.
14k Gold, Yellow Gold
Antique A. Marx & Co London Pendant Box
Located in Braintree, GB
The lower section has a shaped impression and vertical retaining slot intended for a pendant, locket or pendant brooch. The circular recessed area accommodates the principal jewel, w...
Other
Vintage W. Brough & Son Round Jewellery Box, Early 20th Century
Located in Braintree, GB
The circular form makes it suitable for a variety of jewellery types, including brooches, pendants, lockets, or similarly sized pieces.
Large Pave Diamond Set Heart Brooch Pendant
Located in London, GB
Encrusted with an array of dazzling diamonds, this is a truly magnificent piece whether worn as a pendant or a brooch. As per tradition in the 19th century, the brooch has a locket b...
Diamond, 18k Gold, Silver
Victorian Round Gold Brooch with Gem-Set Twin Heart Motif
Located in London, GB
The stones are framed within the hearts by pearls. To the back of the brooch is a locket compartment with a sentimental engraving.
Emerald, Natural Pearl, Ruby, Gold
$11,908 / item
Victorian Garnet, Pearl and Diamond Pendant
Located in London, GB
A Victorian garnet, pearl and diamond brooch/pendant, set to the centre with four triangular cabochon-cut garnets between rose-cut diamond-set cross and natural pearl surround, with ...
Diamond, Garnet, Pearl, Natural Pearl, Yellow Gold, Gold, 18k Gold, 9k Gold
Vintage brooches, which refer to decorative jewelry traditionally pinned to garments and used to fasten pieces of clothing together where needed, have seen increasing popularity in recent years.
While jewelry trends come and go, brooches are indeed back on the radar thanks to fashion houses like Gucci, Versace, Dior and Saint Laurent, all of which feature fun pinnable designs in their current collections. Whether a dazzlingly naturalistic Art Nouveau dragonfly, a whimsical David Webb animal, a gem-studded bloom or a streamlined abstract design, these jewels add color and sparkle to your look and a spring to your step.
Given their long history, brooches have expectedly taken on a variety of different shapes and forms over time, with jewelers turning to assorted methods of ornamentation for these accessories, including enameling and the integration of pearls and gemstones. Cameo brooches that originated during the Victorian age are characterized by a shell carved in raised relief that feature portraits of a woman’s profile, while 19th-century micromosaic brooches, comprising innumerable individually placed glass fragments, sometimes feature miniature depictions of a pastoral scene in daily Roman life.
At one time, brooches were symbols of wealth, made primarily from the finest metals and showcasing exquisite precious gemstones. Today, these jewels are inclusive and universal, and you don’t have to travel very far to find an admirer of brooches. They can be richly geometric in form, such as the ornate diamond pins dating from the Art Deco era, or designer-specific, such as the celebrated naturalistic works created by Tiffany & Co., the milk glass and gold confections crafted by Trifari or handmade vintage Chanel brooches of silk or laminated sheer fabric. Chanel, of course, has never abandoned this style, producing gorgeously baroque CC examples since the 1980s.
Brooches are versatile and adaptable. These decorative accessories can be worn in your hair, on hats, scarves and on the lower point of V-neck clothing. Pin a dazzling brooch to the lapel of your blazer-and-tee combo or add a cluster of smaller pins to your overcoat. And while brooches have their place in “mourning jewelry,” in that a mourning brooch is representative of your connection to a lost loved one, they’re widely seen as romantic and symbolic of love, so much so that a hardcore brooch enthusiast might advocate for brooches to be worn over the heart.
Today, find a wide variety of antique and vintage brooches for sale on 1stDibs, including gold brooches, sapphire brooches and more.
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