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Jewelry Type: Fashion Jewelry
Period: 1930s
Deco Brooch in the shape of a circle, set with small rhinestones, USA 1940s
Located in Stuttgart, DE
A small, fine brooch, art deco in a circle shape, set with many small rhinestones, with small turquoise-colored fruits cut in between. Crafted in rhodium-plated material. Made in the...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Brooches
Materials
Crystal, Rhodium
Flower brooch, hand carved from wood, hand painted from the early 1940s , USA
Located in Stuttgart, DE
A lovingly handcrafted brooch made of wood, which was also hand painted. Each piece is made on green-coated wire and assembled into a bouquet. I have collected several brooches like...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Romantic Brooches
Vintage English Art Deco Paste Double Dress Clip Brooch 1930s
Located in Wilmslow, GB
A Vintage English Art Deco Paste Double Dress Clip Brooch. Wear as a brooch or as a pair of dress clips. An effortlessly stylish work of Art Deco c...
Category
Vintage 1930s Brooches
A rare enamelled metal and paste 'Two Birds ' brooch, Trifari, USA, 1930s
Located in Greyabbey, County Down
A beautifully crafted and highly sort after/collectable early piece from Trifari, an enchanting 'life in miniature', with two birds on a branch, with bird box. Cold enamelled and highlighted with pastes, it would be a great asset to any collection of costume jewellery, in particular, that of Trifari pieces, a jewel of great charm and warmth.
It has the typical 'fur clip' fitting (a double pronged fitting), highly characteristic of Trifari jewels at this time.
The firm of Trifari was founded in 1925 by Gustavo Trifari, Leo F...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Brooches
Materials
Base Metal
Art Deco Gripoix Style Pink Flower Clip
Located in New York, NY
Impressive Art Deco Gripoix Style Pink Flower Clip from the 1930's. Pale pink glass petals are bezel set in brass with topaz crystal center set on gilt leaf base. A 1930's piece desi...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Brooches
Materials
Brass
Flower basket fully decorated with small rhinestones and pearls, rhodium 1940's
Located in Stuttgart, DE
Beautiful basket brooch, with flowers and leaves, fully set with small rhinestones, hanging pearl drops and 5 larger pearls in natural and silver.
Size:
Height 5.5cm
Width 6.5cm
Fea...
Category
Vintage 1930s French Romantic Brooches
Materials
Pearl, Rhodium
Art Deco Gripoix Style Flower Clip
Located in New York, NY
Art Deco Gripoix Style Flower Clip from the 1930's. Pale chalcedony glass are bezeled in brass with sapphire crystal center with Belperron colorations. 1930's USA. 1.75".
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Brooches
Materials
Brass
1938 ElsaSchiaparelli CouturePagan DeposeFrance FeatherCrystalGold Bird Brooch
Located in Chicago, IL
Unusually decorated with small partridge feathers like the yellow-gold gilt necklace commissioned by Elsa Schiaparelli (1890-1973) that is featured on the front-and-back covers and centerfold of the French costume-jewelry hardcover book, Lina Baretti Parures, by Patrick Mauries, this unique pave-crystal yellow-gold gilt metal partridge-on-a-branch brooch is further distinguished as an unsigned Parisian-couture piece for Italian-born Schiaparelli with its combination of embossed text "Made In France" and "Modele Depose", along with the trombone clasp often used in the early 20th Century for custom-made French small brooches.
The book centerfold on pages 90-91 shows a closeup of the feathered necklace created by French-born Corsican Baretti, whose intricate decoration often mixed ready-made textural or shiny materials like velvet, cork, wire, rhodoid or raffia with custom-made metal, plastic or glass by specialized Parisian workshops such as Gripoix. The Baretti-book caption about the attributed necklace notes: "Collier realise pour Elsa Schiaparelli. Liege, soie, cannetille, perles de verre et plumes de perdix. Chaine en metal." While none of the captions date this necklace--which could have been from the same commission as our brooch--Baretti created one-of-a-kind jewelry for Schiaparelli from the 1930s until the early 1950s when the fashion designer retired.
Our brooch was most likely made for a fashion-show debut of one of Schiaparelli's themed clothing collections in the late 1930s for which she commissioned many costume-jewelry paruriers including Baretti. See our photo of a Schiaparelli 1930s...
Category
Vintage 1930s French Artisan Brooches
Materials
Crystal, Gold, Yellow Gold, Gilt Metal
Set of Art Deco Buckle Clips
Located in New York, NY
Elegant set of 3 Art Deco Buckle Clips from the 1920's. High quality early maker likely by Trifari. Open buckle design with baguette borders.
Each 1" x 1". 1930's USA Unsigned.
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Brooches
Materials
Rhodium
Art Deco Faux Aquamarine Dress Clips
Located in New York, NY
Art Deco Faux Aquamarine Dress Clips from the 1930's. High quality faux in rhodium finish with channel set aqua pastes and pave surround. 1930's USA. Each 1.25" x .65".
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Brooches
Materials
Rhodium
Flower brooch with a small moving butterfly, rhinestones, rhodium, 1940 US
Located in Stuttgart, DE
Flower brooch with a small moving butterfly on top, fully set with rhinestones, rhodium-plated metal 1940 US
Dimensions
Hight 6 cm
Width 3.5 cm
moving butterfly 1 cm x 1.3 cm
Category
Vintage 1930s American Romantic Brooches
Materials
Crystal, Rhodium
Bouquet brooch from the 1930/40s with blue, green and clear rhinestones, potash
Located in Stuttgart, DE
Very early bouquet brooch from the 1930/40s USA. Blue - green cut rhinestones and the leaves filled with clear set rhinestones. The brooch is made of potash, typical for this time.
...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Romantic Brooches
Materials
Crystal
Art Deco Hobe Style Jabot Brooch
By Hobé Jewelry
Located in New York, NY
Art Deco Hobe style jabot brooch in filigree brass with citrine, topaz and emerald pastes. 1930's USA, 3" x 1".
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Brooches
Materials
Brass
KTF Trifari Alfred Philippe Tri Colour Fruit Salad Dress Clips
Located in New York, NY
Pair of KTF Trifari Alfred Philippe pave and tricolour fruit salads art deco shield shaped dress clips. The matched pair of rhodium plate base metal, crystal...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Brooches
Materials
Rhodium, Base Metal
Gripoix Chanel Depose fur clip, 1930s
Located in New York, NY
Extremely rare and collectible Gripoix Chanel Depose fur clip.
The brooch is a branch of red berries with leaves. The leaves are made of green glass ...
Category
Vintage 1930s French Modern Brooches
Flower brooch, hand carved from wood and hand painted from the early 1940s USA
Located in Stuttgart, DE
Another similar lovely brooch carved from wood and hand-collared. Each piece is madeon gren-coated wire and assembled into abouquet. I have collected several brooches like this and ...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Romantic Brooches
Alfred Philippe for Trifari Sapphire Fruit Salad Berry Cluster Dress Clip
Located in New York, NY
Alfred Philippe for Trifari faux sapphire fruit salad berry cluster dress clip. Of gold plated base metal unfurling leaf motifs with jelly mold fruit salad glass...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Brooches
Materials
Gold Plate, Rhodium, Base Metal, Gilt Metal
Art Deco Enamel Trembler Calla Lilly Brooch
Located in New York, NY
Art Deco Trembler Calla Lilly Brooch hand enameled in the manner of Alfred Philippe for Trifari. Of base metal with crystal pave rhinestone bow knot and...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Brooches
Materials
Base Metal, Enamel
Alfred Philippe for Trifari Aquamarine Retro Clip Brooch
Located in New York, NY
Alfred Philippe for Trifari aquamarine Retro clip brooch. Of gold plated base metal, the large aquamarine faceted stone set into a round Retro scallop...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Retro Brooches
Materials
Gold Plate, Rhodium, Base Metal, Gilt Metal
Ciro Sterling Silver and Rhinestones Bow Brooch circa 1930s
Located in London, GB
Ciro beautiful sterling silver and rhinestones bow brooch. The brooch is stamped SCP England. SCP stands for Sterling Ciro Pearls. Measuring leng...
Category
Vintage 1930s English Brooches
Materials
Sterling Silver
Art Deco DeRosa Patriotic Brooch
By Ralph DeRosa
Located in New York, NY
Art Deco DeRosa Patriotic Brooch of channel set faux rubies and sapphires with crystal pave accents. Unsigned 1930's. USA. 1.25"
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Brooches
Materials
Rhodium
Art Deco Pennino Peridot and Ruby Paste Spray
Located in New York, NY
Lovely Art Deco Pennino Peridot and Ruby Paste Spray from the 1930's. Floral spray of bezel set pale green and ruby crystals set in intricate pave setting. ...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Brooches
Materials
Rhodium
Art Deco Sapphire Baguette Duette Brooch
Located in New York, NY
Art Deco Sapphire Baguette Duette Brooch from the 1930's. High Art Deco design with pave crystal and sapphire baguettes and ovals. Clips separate off frame to form 2 dress clips for ...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Brooches
Materials
Rhodium, Base Metal
Trifari Enamel Floral Bouquet Clip, Alfred Phillipe
Located in New York, NY
Lovely Trifari Enamel Floral Bouquet Clip, Alfred Phillipe from the 1930's. Original enamel which is very rare with pave crystal accents set into a high ...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Brooches
Materials
Rhodium, Enamel
Schiaparelli Figurine Brooch in Wood, Gilded Metal and Flower in Glass Paste
By Schiaparelli
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Schiaparelli -Figurine brooch in wood, gilded metal and flower in glass paste. Vintage jewelry, not signed.
Additional information:
Dimensions: 5.5 H...
Category
Vintage 1930s French Brooches
Materials
Gilt Metal
Art Deco Novelty Flamingo Brooch
Located in New York, NY
Charming Art Deco Novelty Flamingo Brooch from the 1930's. Likely made by Coro with pave accents and enamel highlights set with moonglow cabochons. 3" x 1.75". 1930's USA.
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Brooches
Materials
Base Metal
DeRosa Art Deco Lapel Clip Brooch
By Ralph DeRosa
Located in New York, NY
Ralph Derosa intricate Art Deco fan shape lapel clip brooch composed of faux sapphire baguettes, oval and round faceted faux topaz, pink tourmaline and sapphires on a fine crystal rh...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Brooches
Materials
Gold Plate, Base Metal, Brass, Gilt Metal
Art Deco Jelly Belly Figural Brooch
Located in New York, NY
Charming Art Deco Jelly Belly Figural Brooch from the 1930's. Abstract animal with lucite "belly" and faux pearl head, Chrome finish with gilt ears. 2.5...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Brooches
Materials
Silver Plate
French Art Deco Silver Bracelet, Fernand Grange
Located in New York, NY
French Art Deco Silver Bracelet by Fernand Grange from the 1930's. Incredible handmade design of hammered rings with dimensional tied toggle motif. Very special design from a master ...
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Brooches
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Art Deco Gilt Peacock Brooch
Located in New York, NY
Charming, animated Art Deco Peacock Brooch from the 1930's. Gilt metal with pave accents, citrine crystals and a jet "belly" stone and enamel accents. 193...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Brooches
Materials
Gilt Metal
Art Deco Bakelite Sailfish Brooch
Located in New York, NY
Unusual Art Deco Bakelite Sailfish Brooch of gilt metal with pave accents. Body of fish is reverse carved applejuice bakelite in an amber tone. 1930's US...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Brooches
Materials
Gilt Metal
Vintage English Art Deco Silver & Paste Dress Clip Pair 1930s
Located in Wilmslow, GB
A Vintage English Art Deco Silver & Paste Dress Clip Pair. A wonderful design that embodies both the Art Noveau and Art Deco design eras. Exquisite qu...
Category
Vintage 1930s Brooches
Vintage Royal Blue Crystal Glass Brooch
Located in Atlanta, GA
This is a 1930-40s royal blue crystal glass brooch. It has 14 pieces of 11mm faceted royal blue crystal stones surrounding a gilt flower with a 11mm clear rhinestone center. All ston...
Category
Vintage 1930s European Edwardian Brooches
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
A Black Galalith, silver and clear paste clip, Mecan, France, 1930s
Located in Greyabbey, County Down
A very stylish and rare jewel, high Art Deco in style and manufacture.
This is a clip fitting, bold and strong, that would clip onto a clutch bag, a lapel, or on the edging of a low ...
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Brooches
Materials
Silver
Art Deco Bakelite Figural Brooch
Located in New York, NY
Unusual Art Deco Bakelite Figural Papal Brooch from the 1930's. Hand carved of butterscotch and black bakelite with faux pearls and chain detailing. Clip...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Brooches
Materials
Gilt Metal
Vintage Ciro Paste Double Dress Clip Brooch 1930s
Located in Wilmslow, GB
A Vintage Ciro Paste Double Dress Clip Brooch. Wear as a brooch or as a pair of dress clips. An effortlessly stylish work of Art Deco craftmanship....
Category
Vintage 1930s Brooches
Art Deco Enamel Salamander Brooch
Located in New York, NY
Charming Art Deco Enamel Salamander Brooch from the 1930's. Gilt metal with Marcel Boucher style pearlized enamel with pave accents down back. Red paste ey...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Brooches
Materials
Enamel, Gilt Metal
Rare Marcel Boucher Art Deco Pave Lily
Located in New York, NY
Rare and Massive Marcel Boucher Art Deco Pave Lily from the 1930's. High rhodium finish with pave rhinestones with round, baguette and navette stones. Extraordinary design from the l...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Brooches
Materials
Rhodium
Vintage Parisian Art Deco Paste & Pearl Horseshoe Dress Clip 1930s
Located in Wilmslow, GB
A very special and rare Vintage Parisian Art Deco Paste & Pearl Horseshoe Dress Clip. Crafted in the couture capital of the world in the 1920s thi...
Category
Vintage 1930s Brooches
Vintage Art Deco Cut Crystal Dress Clip Pair 1930s
Located in Wilmslow, GB
A pair of Vintage Art Deco Cut Crystal Dress Clips made in Czechoslovakia for the French market. Exquisite quality geometric design crystals topped...
Category
Vintage 1930s Brooches
Coro Enamel and Jeweled Turtle
By Corocraft
Located in New York, NY
Large Coro Enamel and Jeweled Turtle from the Art Deco era. Set with pave and emerald crystals with pearlized copper enamel. 1930's USA. Unsigned. 3.5" x 2.25".
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Brooches
Materials
Base Metal, Enamel
Henry Schreiner 1930s ProngSetCrystal FloraSpray TeardropFrame GiltBrass Brooch
Located in Chicago, IL
Henry Schreiner, the Austrian-born blacksmith founder of Schreiner New York in 1932, handcrafted this multi-color prong-set Bavarian crystal stylized-...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Artist Brooches
Materials
Crystal, Brass, Yellow Gold, Gilt Metal
MiriamHaskell c1929 FrankHess Rare FurClips GoldGiltBrass 3ChainFloraBow Lariat
Located in Chicago, IL
As one of Miriam Haskell's earliest fur clips from the late 1920s, these two Russian-gold gilt mostly brass brooches by her first designer Frank Hess are tethered as a lariat by thre...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Baroque Revival Brooches
Materials
Yellow Gold, Brass, Gilt Metal
Czech Gilt Metal and Multi Coloured Glass Floral Brooch circa 1930s
Located in London, GB
Beautiful Czech gilt metal floral brooch, with lovely multi coloured glass stones. Measuring length 5.5 cm / 2.1 inches by 4.4 cm / 1.7 inches. The brooch is in very good condition. ...
Category
Vintage 1930s Czech Brooches
Early Marcel Boucher Ruby Lily
Located in New York, NY
Early Marcel Boucher Ruby Lily from the 1930's. Large striking floral spray with pave accents and ruby paste center. 1930's USA. Signed. 3.25" x 2".
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Brooches
Materials
Rhodium, Gilt Metal
Trifari Pink Gold and Pave Orchid Clip
Located in New York, NY
Amazing Collector Quality Trifari Pink Gold Plate and Pave Orchid Clip from the 1940's. Dimensional with hand set pave work throughout.
1940's USA. 3" x 2.75" wide.
Category
Vintage 1930s Art Deco Brooches
Materials
Gilt Metal
Marcel Boucher Early Lily Brooch
Located in New York, NY
Marcel Boucher Early Lily Brooch from the 1930's. Stylized lily spray in rhodium with gold plating and pave crystal accents. Gold plating is worn on high areas of brooch and gives it...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Brooches
Materials
Rhodium, Gilt Metal
Italian Art Deco 1930s Silver & Shell Birth of Venus Brooch
Located in New York, NY
A stunning and Art Deco brooch of the Birth of the goddess Venus. It is mostly likely Italian and was purchased there. The brooch has a natural scallop shell body mounted in a matchi...
Category
Vintage 1930s Italian Brooches
Materials
Silver
Style Metal Spec NY Maple Dress Clip
Located in Atlanta, GA
This is a signed Style Metal Spec. N.Y. dress clip that comes with brass stylized maple leaves and prong set faceted ruby red glass berries. This original dress clip could be worn as...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Arts and Crafts Brooches
Materials
Gold Plate
Crown Trifari 1930s Clip Mates Ribbon White Whole Crystals Dress Silver Brooch
Located in Wokingham, England
Trifari costume jewelry of the late-1930s included Clip-Mates, their version of the double clip brooch. The setting is rhodium-plated. This p...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Nouveau Brooches
Materials
Silver
Pair of Art Deco Mazer Scotsman Motif Clips
By Mazer
Located in New York, NY
Pair of Charming Mazer Scotsman Motif Clips from the 1930's. Each figure in traditional dress set with unusual cut paste stones and enamel accents. Each 1.75" x 1". 1930's USA. Unsig...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Brooches
Materials
Gilt Metal
Art Deco Jelly Belly Cat Brooch
Located in New York, NY
Charming, collectible Art Deco Jelly Belly Cat Brooch from the 1930's. Originally gold, it has worn to a rhodium finish so essentially silver toned. Lucite clear belly. 1930's USA. U...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Brooches
Materials
Rhodium, Gilt Metal
CoutureChanel Antique Byzantine ThePurpleHeart PearlAmethystQuartz GoldMedallion
By Chanel
Located in Chicago, IL
During the ArtDeco period when Gabriel "Coco" Chanel was at her peak as a Parisian couture fashion-designer in the early 1930s, this antique one-of-a-kind handcrafted gem-fringed and gilt-chain medallion brooch with trombone clasp was commissioned to accessorize one of her clothing designs. Marked only "FRANCE" like some early 1930s Chanel couture jewelry (without a brand stamp until the 1950s), its artistic origin is most likely from ornate organic-form sketches by her favorite parurer Fulco di Verdura. The Sicilian duke began creating fabric patterns for Chanel in 1927, which shortly expanded to fine jewelry beginning with custom pieces for herself. These include the iconic Byzantine-influenced gem-adorned cuffs referencing the Maltese military-cross, which the French designer can often be seen wearing in circa-1930s photos.
This bright yellow-gold brooch suits goldsmith Verdura's early anti-Art-Deco aesthetic that was considered a radical departure from 1920s silver-tone jewelry, which otherwise featured linear geometric designs or figurative representation. The softly-shaped deconstructed gem-bouquet mixes amethyst and rose-quartz beads with natural Keshi pearls and intricate tiny gilt leaves, which are wired to a Baroque-motif open-work frame that dangles another gem surrounded by a thick gilt-rope halo. Notably, Verdura is credited with re-introducing since Victorian times the rope motif to jewelry.
Since 1930, Verdura's unique style was influenced by travels with Chanel to explore Byzantine art, Baroque architecture, and exotic flora-and-fauna among his native Italian aristocratic estate. The legendary fashion-editor Diane Vreeland and American entertainment-stars were among the first Chanel clients to acquire couture real-gem-adorned jewelry made by Verdura, while one of the two brooches treasured by Vreeland was titled "Theodora". See our photo of the Byzantine mosaic of Empress Theodora, whose image wearing many teardrop pearls above her chest and surrounded by a golden halo seems to be the inspiration for this brooch.
As one of the most important modern-design collaborations, Chanel's close relationship with Verdura lasted largely-undocumented years in Paris, until he launched his first outside jewelry venture with a Hollywood designer-boutique after emigrating to the United States in 1934. By 1939 as a financially-backed in-demand goldsmith, he founded the namesake jewelry-company Verdura in NYC. After he retired in 1973, the brand continued to operate without him with different owners.
Given the duo's designs that played with historic and military references, Chanel's couture commission for this purple medallion may have been sparked in the early 1930s when the internationally-new...
Category
Vintage 1930s French Byzantine Brooches
Materials
Amethyst, Pearl, Quartz, Gold, Gilt Metal, Yellow Gold
Massive Jugenstil Amber Drop Brooch
Located in New York, NY
Massive Jugenstil Amber Drop Brooch from the early 20th Century. Constructed of 830 grade silver with natural amber centers and drops in a hand raised floriform brooch. Scandanavian Art Nouveau...
Category
Vintage 1930s Danish Art Nouveau Brooches
Materials
Amber, Silver
Vintage Glass Paste Starburst Brooch 1930s
Located in Wilmslow, GB
A Vintage Glass Paste Starburst Brooch. Crafted around the 1930s this delightful pin features a gigantic solitaire crystal surrounded by an array of ch...
Category
Vintage 1930s Brooches
Art Deco Surrealist Enamel Lobster Brooch
Located in New York, NY
Art Deco Enamel Lobster Brooch in the Surrealist style. Large scale in gilt metal with vibrant red enamel. Channel your inner Schiaparelli with this brooch perched in unusual places....
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Brooches
Materials
Enamel, Gilt Metal
Trifari Art Deco Clips, KTF by Alfred Phillipe
Located in New York, NY
Trifari Art Deco Clips, KTF by Alfred Phillipe from the 1930's. High Art Design with faux pate de verre amazonites and crystals in the Cartier style set...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Brooches
Materials
Rhodium
Couture 1930s CocoChanel LinaBaretti SatinBlackCamellias PaveCrystals Gold Set
By Chanel
Located in Chicago, IL
This rare signed couture set of pave-crystal and gold-plated brooch and earrings from the Art Deco period is marked in the manner of one-off costume jewelry commissioned...
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Brooches
Materials
Crystal, Gold, Gold Plate, Silver
Antique and Vintage Costume and Fashion Pins and Brooches
Antique and vintage costume and fashion pins and brooches are decorative jewels traditionally pinned to garments and used to fasten pieces of clothing together where needed. In recent years, these accessories have seen increasing popularity.
Costume jewelry is made of inexpensive materials and is typically designed to accessorize with current fashions. There has been no shortage of unique fashion brooches created over the years by jewelers and jewelry houses such as Trifari, Kenneth Jay Lane and others. Enthusiasts of Chanel — the founder of which loved costume jewelry but couldn’t resist designing jewelry with diamonds — are also going to find that the range of fashion jewelry that has been created at the company includes sophisticated Chanel brooches embellished with pearls and glass jewels.
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.
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 in the collection of costume and fashion jewelry on 1stDibs.
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