Fashion Jewelry Brooches
Mid-20th Century Art Deco Brooches
Crystal, Silver
Vintage 1940s American Retro Brooches
Gold Plate, Rhodium, Base Metal, Gilt Metal
Vintage 1950s American Retro Brooches
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Brooches
Rhodium, Sterling Silver
20th Century French Brooches
Gilt Metal
Vintage 1980s Brooches
Vintage 1940s American Retro Brooches
Base Metal, Gold Plate
Early 2000s Italian Brooches
20th Century Brooches
Crystal
20th Century Unknown Brooches
Vintage 1960s American Modern Brooches
21st Century and Contemporary Brooches
Silver
Early 20th Century Unknown Victorian Brooches
Sterling Silver
Vintage 1980s American Retro Brooches
Crystal, Gold Plate
Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Brooches
Base Metal, Rhodium
Vintage 1960s American Modern Brooches
Mid-20th Century American Modernist Brooches
Crystal, Gold Plate
20th Century Retro Brooches
Crystal
21st Century and Contemporary American Contemporary Brooches
Crystal, Gold Plate
Vintage 1930s Chinese Brooches
Coral, Silver
Late 20th Century Brooches
Sapphire, Diamond, Emerald, Ruby, Gold, 14k Gold, Yellow Gold
20th Century Brooches
Diamond, Enamel
Late 20th Century American Modernist Brooches
Sterling Silver
20th Century Unknown Brooches
21st Century and Contemporary Brooches
Gold
1990s French Brooches
Gold Plate
21st Century and Contemporary Brooches
Silver
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Brooches
Gilt Metal
Vintage 1980s Unknown Brooches
Gilt Metal
Vintage 1940s American Brooches
Gold Plate
Vintage 1960s American Brooches
Base Metal
Mid-20th Century Brooches
Crystal
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Brooches
Gold Plate, Brass, Gilt Metal
Vintage 1940s American Retro Brooches
Gold Plate, Base Metal, Gilt Metal
Vintage 1920s French Art Deco Brooches
Sterling Silver
Vintage 1940s Art Deco Brooches
Rhodium
Mid-20th Century Peruvian Anglo-Indian Brooches
Silver
Early 2000s French Brooches
Vintage 1940s American Retro Brooches
Gilt Metal
Vintage 1950s Brooches
Gilt Metal
Vintage 1940s American Modern Brooches
Gilt Metal
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Brooches
Crystal, Rhodium, Base Metal, Gilt Metal
Vintage 1980s Brooches
20th Century Brooches
Crystal
1990s French Brooches
Vintage 1930s American Retro Brooches
Gold Plate, Rhodium
Antique 1870s American Late Victorian Brooches
Natural Pearl, Gold Plate, Silver
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Brooches
Gold Plate, Brass, Gilt Metal
Vintage 1960s American Modern Brooches
20th Century American Brooches
Vintage 1960s Brooches
2010s Thai Contemporary Brooches
Ruby, Pink Sapphire, Tsavorite, Silver
20th Century American Retro Brooches
Marcasite, Sterling Silver
Vintage 1930s American Brooches
Vintage 1960s French Medieval Brooches
Gold Plate, Bronze, Gilt Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Brooches
Crystal
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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