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Jewelry Type: Fashion Jewelry
1980s Gold Diamante Bow Brooch Set of 2
Located in London, GB
1980s superb quality pave set diamantes in a stylish bow design and even better – you get to have both! They appear to be gold plated with an etched reverse and C-clasp to fasten. ...
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Vintage 1980s British Brooches
1980s Chanel Gold Beret Brooch With Bow
By Chanel
Located in London, GB
This gold-plated metal brooch, circa 1980, by Chanel features a beret with a bow and embodies the feminine French elegance of Coco Chanel. The term 'beret' became modish when Napoleo...
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Vintage 1980s French Brooches
1950s Blue and Turquoise Large Floral Spray Brooch
Located in London, GB
This impressive sized 1950s or early 1960s brooch features a very large spray of flowers and foliage in a mixture of sparkling powder blue and turquoise ...
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Vintage 1960s Brooches
1980s Sonia Rykiel Novelty Gold Plated Brooch
By Sonia Rykiel
Located in London, GB
Novelty 1980s Sonia Rykiel gold plated torchiere brooch or so we believe but turn it the other way around and it could be a paint brush! It’s a very tactile piece with smooth qualit...
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Vintage 1980s French Brooches
Materials
Gold Plate
1970s Novelty Trifari Gold and White Trio of Fish Brooch
By Trifari
Located in London, GB
1970s Trifari brooch in the form of 3 fish swimming in a school with a larger fish followed by 2 smaller ones. The fish are made of gold tone metal with their bodies comprised of white moulded glass. The brooch has the mark Trifari TM...
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Vintage 1970s American Brooches
1950s Silver Horse Head Brooch With Marcasite Stones
Located in London, GB
A 1950s very fine modelled mid-century horse's head brooch. With graded marcasite stones and a green paste-set stone in the eye. Marcasite has been popular since Victorian times. In superb original condition with strong clasp. Unmarked silver...
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Vintage 1950s British Brooches
Materials
Marcasite, Silver, Base Metal
1980’s Kalinger French Couture Large Gold Torch Brooch
By Kalinger
Located in London, GB
An impressive and unusual brooch in the shape of a torch from French couture brand Kalinger. This piece is typical of their 1980’s style and is made up of green resin, which has bee...
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Vintage 1980s French Brooches
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Tiffany & Co. Vintage 18 Karat Yellow Gold and Blue Sapphire Brooch, circa 1960
By Tiffany & Co.
Located in Chicago, IL
The brooch is 24mm wide, 2.25 inches in length, made of 18K yellow gold, and weighs 6.40 DWT (approx. 9.95 grams). It also has seven round sapphires.
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Vintage 1960s American Retro Brooches
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Blue Sapphire, 18k Gold
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12 Antique Gold Stick Pins Made into Pin
Located in Water Mill, NY
Twelve Antique Gold Stick Pins-with Diamonds,Peal and Various Stones made into Pin
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Ruby, Pearl, Diamond Victorian Pendant, circa 1850
Located in London, GB
Victorian Pendant/Brooch in 15 carat yellow gold with rubies, pearls and diamonds in a starburst floral design, circa 1850
15 carat gold Ceylon rubies, half pearls and diamond set.
Rubies, Ceylon, natural untreated, 0.6ct total (approx)
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W 1.23 in D 0.32 in Dm 1.23 in L 1.42 in
Ladybug-Shaped Pendant and Brooch with Enamel of Various Colors
Located in Rome, IT
The pendant in the shape of a ladybug with open wings, can be worn both as a pendant and as a brooch. The ladybug is decorated with transparent enamels of various colors.
Its manufa...
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Antique 19th Century Retro Pendant Necklaces
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Enamel
8mm Pearl, Diamond, And Ruby Pin In Y18K yellow Gold
Located in Chicago, IL
This pearl, ruby, and diamond pin is made of 18K yellow gold. It contains single cut I-J color, VS clarity diamonds weighing 0.20 CTTW, round I-J rubies weighing 0.70 CTTW, and a rou...
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Mid-20th Century Art Deco Brooches
Materials
Diamond, Pearl, Ruby, 18k Gold, Yellow Gold
Antique Victorian Natural Amethyst & Seeded Pearl Brooch in 14KT Filigree Gold
Located in Milford, DE
A dainty Victorian brooch for the most elegant woman! A single prong-set faceted amethyst is surrounded by natural seeded pearls in round bezels. All set in a 14KT gold round filigre...
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Early 20th Century Victorian Brooches
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Pearl, Amethyst, 14k Gold
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Atelier Borgila Stockholm 1944, Modernist Brooch in Gilt Sterling Silver
By Atelier Borgila
Located in Skanninge, SE
Very nice modernist brooch depicting a bird in flight. Gilded sterling silver with maker marks. Fine vintage condition, only some minor scratches.
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Mid-20th Century Swedish Modernist Brooches
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Sterling Silver
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Diamond, Ruby, Tsavorite And Enamel Flower Pin In Multi Tone Gold
Located in Chicago, IL
This Enamel pin is made of 18k Rose Gold . It contains a round ruby weighing 0.55 CT, round green tsavorites weighing 0.32 CTTW, round multi color, diamonds weighing 0.31 CTTW, round...
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Late 20th Century Art Nouveau Brooches
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Erik Fleming for Borgila 18k Gold Brooch, Stockholm Sweden, 1944
By Atelier Borgila
Located in Skanninge, SE
Wonderful 18k gold brooch depicting a flower.
Made by Erik Fleming (1894-1954) for Borgila.
18k gold together with one pearl.
Great condition, no issues.
Diameter 4.5cm (in 1.78)
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Vintage 1940s Swedish Modernist Brooches
Materials
18k Gold
Art Nouveau Diamond Opal Pendant/Brooch, circa 1900
Located in London, GB
18ct gold & silver set Art Nouveau Diamond Opal Pendant/Brooch dated circa 1900
Five round opals with an articulated pear shaped opal drop, very well matched with lively play of colours and iridescence in reds, greens, blues and gold. Set in 18 carat yellow gold claw collets
Two main transitional cut (old mine) diamonds 0.70ct. Mix of old mine and rose cut diamonds in an 18 carat yellow gold with “silver Set” channel setting , approx 1 ct total. G/H/I, VS2-SI2.
Total diamond weight: approx 1.7carats
Setting diamonds in gold with a thin layer of silver, “silver set”, was a technique used in the Georgian/Victorian/Art Nouveau period as white coloured gold and platinum were not yet available. A very thin layer of silver was applied to the gold, on which the diamonds were set, to show them off to their best advantage (as the yellow would reflect and distort the white colour of the diamonds).
The Art Nouveau period was a short lived but worldwide movement which reached its peak at the end of the 19th Century and the first decade of the 20th Century. It had its roots in the Pre Raphaelite and Arts and Crafts movements in Britain in the 1860’s. Artists, such as William Morris, took their inspiration from the flora and fauna of nature and rejected the mass industrialisation and mechanisation of the Victorian age.
Art Nouveau continued with this theme and has a distinctive appearance with soft, curved shapes and lines and often depicted natural designs such as flowers, birds and the female form. Before the Art Nouveau period, the emphasis had been to design pieces with an emphasis on gem stones, diamonds, rubies emeralds etc. However, during the Art Nouveau period, jewellers adopted the idea of using other semi–precious stones “from nature” such as agate, garnet opal, moonstone, aquamarine and experimented with a wide variety of new techniques e.g. enamelling.
The “New Art” style became a worldwide movement encompassing all disciplines of the arts, and world class artists as far afield as Gaudi with his “modernisme” architecture in Spain, Louis Comfort Tiffany in New York with objects, Galle Glass in France and the Liberty & Co Archibald Knox designs in Britain, Jugendstil in Northern Europe and Faberge in Russia.
The movement flared brightly but briefly and by 1910 it was already going out of style to be replaced by Art Deco.
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Antique Early 1900s British Art Nouveau Pendant Necklaces
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Harald Nielsen for Georg Jensen Denmark Brooch
By Harald Nielsen
Located in Skanninge, SE
A fine brooch by Harald Nielsen for Georg Jensen.
Made during world war II. It is made in silver and patinated steel.
This was something they did because of the war.
Marked "HN GEOR...
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Vintage 1940s Danish Modernist Brooches
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Sterling Silver, Stainless Steel
Antique Cameo Heart Pin with Diamond in 14K Yellow Gold
Located in Chicago, IL
This antique cameo heart with diamond pin is made of 14K yellow gold. It contains a round diamond weighing 0.01 CTTW.
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Late 20th Century Art Nouveau Brooches
Materials
Diamond, 14k Gold, Yellow Gold