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Blue & Green Art Glass Brooch Signed Kramer
A breathtaking array of blues and greens will accentuate a fresh, sparkling look evoking sunshine, deep sparkling waters and verdant countryside captured in ice! All stones are all prong set in rhodium plated base metal. As with so many Kramers jewels, the 2 7/8" setting is curved into raised and tilted portions for the best display of stones. Signed in back KRAMER OF NEW YORK in oval plaque, this beauty is in Very Good+ condition. $68
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Ravishing
Red Rhinestone & Molded Glass Brooch
Layers of red rhinestones show that your warm beauty is more than skin deep! Sexy slender navettes pair with plump ones aside big serrated cup set ovals and molded glass leaves accented by aurora borealis AB chatons just spectacular with colors from reds to pinks to fire! At 2 7/8" x 2", this is a large brooch that will sparkle like the dickens and add terrific color to outfits from summer dresses, to subdued fall suits and sashes to holiday party wear! Excellent condition. $45
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Weiss Victorian Revival Chatelaine Brooch This Weiss chatelaine brooch not only delectable but unique. Two individual 1 3/4" oval pins held together with a 5 1/3" chain coupled with a longer one that will fall below in a festoon. The pins offer blue- green vintage plastic cabochons coronet-set in delicate golden filigree. With the sparkly blue and green crystal rhinestones, each pin resembles peacock feathers. Dangling prettily from one of the pins is an ornate fob signed (c)Weiss in an oval cartouche. All rhinestones sparkle like crazy! This vintage Weiss is in Excellent condition. $88 |
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Pell Topaz
Rhinestone Owl Pin
This adorable little fella has big green rhinestone eyes. He looks pretty flashy in his pave rhinestone coat--the color of the stones is light golden topaz, almost citrine. And, oh, what a fresh little sparkler he is! At 2 1/4" tall, he's got a big appetite for admiration and wants you to bring him home. Signed (c)PELL, he's in Excellent condition. $48
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Pink & Yellow Accessocraft Flower Power Pretty little enameled flower pin; you can tell it's a true 1960's Mod flower by the shape of the petals, spreading out in an innocent look. Dress up your casual outfits with this bright, happy jewel signed ACCESSOCRAFT, NYC. If you look closely you can see crazing in the enamel, but none if missing and there's no wear on the gold tone base. The pin is 1 5/8" in diameter. Excellent. $28 |
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Long Purple Navette Leaf Brooch
The best jewels are often simple but sexy. Wear this elegant beauty just above your bust line and let it point to décolletage. Or, because smiles and sparkling eyes are always sexy, wear this purple beauty pointed up toward your face. The medium purple and light purple long prong set navettes are unfoiled and set open back, making the colors transparent and subdued enough to wear freely with a variety of colors. Notice the stones are set in graduated sizes against a textured golden stem, another indication of high quality. The brooch measures 4 1/2" long and is a slender 1 1/2" at the widest point. Remarkably versatile despite the size, you can let this beauty hang from your shoulder to add horizontal lines. This jewel is in Excellent condition. Enjoy for $52.
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1930s
New England Glassworks Oblong Rhinestone Brooch
For a look both demure yet exciting, wear this old time filigree brooch directly under your collar. Made from darkened base metal, the lacy floral filigree octagon is set with multicolored rhinestones in beaded bezels. Signed in back, just under the pin are the letters NE inside the outline of a chalice the signature of New England Glassworks. Rising in a dome shape, the brooch measures 2 7/8" wide x 1 3/4" tall. Very Good condition. $52
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Glitzy Aqua Rhinestone Bouquet Brooch
This sparkling thing is from the short era right after the war restrictions on base metals and the shortage of crystal stones from Europe. Its what I like to call Post WWII retro. These designs offer the retro look but they are smaller and loaded with rhinestones. This one almost seems to rejoice in it's dress of European aqua crystal rectangles, diamante baguettes, and all those chatons. Its layered design and 3-D look add to the beauty. Most stones are prong set. The flowers are held up by gold tone wire, and when you view the reverse photo, you'll see middle back wire curves upward to the pin can double as a pendant. In fact--it looks like Coro in its heyday, doesn't it? If so, the earrings are out there somewhere to prove it. Meantime, this little sweetheart is priced as an unsigned beauty. The jewel is 2" tall and 1 1/2" at the widest. Very Good condition, with all stones sparkling like crazy. $32
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Lady In Mink! Bonetto Watch Pin
in Original Box Celebrate her beauty and style as well as her practical nature with this lady watch pin by Bonetto. A highly collectible 1980's piece, her bisque face is hand painted; one eye peeks sexily from beneath her sparkly cloth cap, which is laced with black & gold trim accented and by a single AB rhinestone. She's ready for the cold season in dark brown genuine mink. Along with 4 big round rhinestones and a double dangle of rhinestone chain, she strikes an elegant impression. The black-faced watch with diamond-like digits runs perfectly. This irreplaceable jewel totals 3 1/4" tall x 3" wide at the widest. The watch by itself is 1" in diameter. The Bonetto doll face watch pins were put together by hand, so keep that in mind when viewing the back--most of these watches have glue residue and other evidence of being hand made. The clear Lucite top of the original box has marks along the sides, but otherwise the watch and the lady are Excellent condition. All rhinestones are bright and sparkling. Comes working with new battery. $58
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Red Asian Princess
Face Brooch This Asian princes is the epitome of stately beauty with her regal bearing and red molded plastic head. Her textured antiqued brass gown is set with faux pearls; she has ribbon curves for shoulders. She is about 2" tall x 1 7/8" wide and in excellent condition. Wear when you are feeling most mysterious and magical. $48
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Limoges
Hand Painted with Transfer Porcelain Marriage Proposal Brooch. These kinds of Limoges pins are late 1940s French imports, the sale of which helped them rebuild after WWII. I just couldn't resist this colorful delight! Can you? The scene shows a marriage proposal under a blue sky full of cloudy whisps. The transfer is hand painted with dabs of pearly white for flowers at their feet and as decorations at his throat and the maiden's, gown. The setting and open trombone clasp are European, the kind I've seen on other Limoges pins. The golden rope-twist frame supports the brass bezel which secures the porcelain very snugly. Brooch measures 1 7/8" in diameter and is signed in back in red ink Limoges made in France. Condition of the porcelain is Excellent with no paint loss or fading. The brass setting is very good, with the usual dings and scratches that only add to the vintage value. $60
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Nouveau Sash Pin with Fancy Stone
Circa 1900. This big antique sash pin has an unusual design, with the raised metalwork and the colors of the stone. The designs are almost "psychedelic," but actually, many psychedelic designs from the 1960s and '70s were drawn from old Art Nouveau design. This is not a hollow stamping, but thick white metal engraved metal, with the central part of the design applied separately to the back. Even the enlarged image doesn't show the fine, threadlike lines texturing the recesses. I can't tell if the stone is semiprecious or ceramic. but it's beautifully colored, measuring about 7/8" wide. The brooch itself is 3" wide x 2" and pins with an open C-clasp. Condition is Very Good, with small areas of brassy discoloration in the metal. It's easy to find ways to wear these old sash pins--pin to a wide cloth sash to accentuate your waist, fasten a big scarf or tie for adding elongated lines or on a scarf pinned to a hat! $95 |
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Exquisite Early Century
Shell Cameo in Hammered Brass Setting This delightful lady has some of the plumpness of Victorian ladies, but her hair is bobbed and her nose uptilted, signifying an early century date, perhaps into the 1930's. Notice the individual hair strands, the lovely draping of her gown, and the flowers and foliage at her shoulder and her deep set eyes. Her color is ivory with hints of a red-brown layer showing through on her skin and in her hair, carved against a carnelian colored background. She rests in a gilded hammered setting with early lever type safety clasp. On close examination it appears that the bezel was once gilded, but the gold coloring has worn off down to silver base metal. Measurements, including the frame, is 1 1/2" tall x 1 1/4" wide. She is perfect, with no cracks, chips, scratches or discoloration. Excellent. $78
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Beautiful
TALL Pegasus Coro Floral Multicolor Rhinestone Brooch SOLD This is one of the nicest, most well made brooches I've seen by Coro. With layers riveted together and stacked with rhinestone flowers of teardrop petals in red, topaz, emerald green and pale green Aurora Borealis teardrops, the brooch is heavy for it's size and harkens back to the old 30's multicolor florals. But this 3 3/8" tall pin was made no earlier than the mid 1950's with textured leaves in both brushed and polished goldtone. Signed in back (c)CORO with the Pegasus symbol, the brooch is in Excellent condition. An usual find, both highly wearable as well as a top investment jewel. |
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