Betty Cooke Modernist Minnow Brooch

Louis Rousselet triple flower head brooch of signature hand made and hand wired nacre button cabochons, petals and leaves with deep sapphire stamens of pate de verre. Gilt metal find...

Charming Rose Quartz Leaf Brooch from the 1940's. Beautiful lapidary work in the detailed leaf, cut from one piece of rose quartz. The hand made setting is gilded silver. Natural i...

Louis Rousselet double bouquet brooch of signature hand made and hand wired nacre flower heads, petals and leaves. With turquoise lillies, pale pink d...

Delicate example of Louis Rousselet's masterful treatment of pate de verre techniques as seen in the turquoise glass pistils and signature pearls of this period brooch. 1930's France...

Christian Dior Vintage 1980s Unisex Trio Oval White Pearls Crystals Long Bar Elegant Modernist Brooch, Gold Tone Renowned for its timeless elegant designs, Christian Dior presents t...

Platinum V shaped brooch, with round and baguette cut diamonds - approx. 6.00ctw in total. Brooch measures 1.75" x 2". Marked with serial scratch-on number. Weight - 24.2 grams.

In the 1920s in an Art-Nouveau style, Czech costume-jewelry designer Max Neiger created this brass dangle brooch that features three different shapes of ...

In Spring 1941 after French fashion couturier Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel had stopped production of her clothing designs while she remained in Europe during the WWII era, the decades-old American costume-jewelry company Reinad began imprinting pieces in its new retail line, Chanel Novelty Co, with the script signature "Chanel". As this was prior to the use of the sans-serif capital-letter signature "CHANEL" on French-made jewelry that was commissioned by the Parisian designer, as well as before U.S.-copyright protection began in 1955, the House of Chanel that was mostly owned by the Jewish Wertheimer family of venture capitalists (who remarkably still produced Parfums CHANEL and French-vineyard wine via legal proxy while they lived in asylum in The States during the war) filed a U.S. lawsuit to demand that Reinad halt the use of its founder's famous last name. As the Werthheimers' quickly won, Reinad only produced the single seasonal collection stamped with the French brand name, and subsequently only imprinted its company name as the sans-serif capital-letter signature "REINAD" without a copyright symbol, which was different that its prior signatures dating back to its founding in 1922. When Chanel herself resumed French-made fashion production in Paris in 1953 (with Werthheimer support leading to their acquisition of all rights to her name despite her post-war eight-year exile in Switzerland due to close association with Nazis), for the first time all of her creations were signed "CHANEL" like the original packaging of the exceedingly profitable "No.5" perfume. While Reinad continued to produced costume jewelry until 1954, in the last decade of this business, the U.S. company continued to try to appeal to potential Chanel buyers by at least making Chanel-style designs. As such, owning an attractive and well-made Reinad piece can be considered a useful investment in fashion history as evidence of a little-known turning-point involving the most famous ongoing luxury-fashion business Chanel, as well as of the impact of that legal judgement had on advancing U.S. design protection for brands that later used the copyright symbol. Like early ArtDeco-style oversized heavy metallic costume jewelry by Chanel, this three-dimensional monochrome silver-alloy polkadot bow brooch imitates a pale polkadot-textured ribbon. Notably, while high-quality ribbon for styling hair or decorating clothing in a non-functional way was still an expensive accessory...