Archive for vintage brooches
Vintage Brooches Collections
Posted by: | CommentsIve something a little unusual to offer at the moment – several collections or lots of vintage brooches. All of these collections are made up of vintage costume jewellery, I have so many brooches at the moment I though that you would appreciate the opportunity to buy job lots at bargain prices over the cost the pieces would sell for if I sold them individually.
Brooch Collection
There are a wide variety of lots available, a red collection, a harlequin collection, a pink collection ( with a special butterfly brooch included). There is a blue collection which has some super pieces including a cute bug brooch. A collection of antique brooches, a floral collection and an animal collection. All of these vitnage brooches collections can be found now in the costume brooches selection of my shop at www.antiquesavenue.co.uk.
The brooches in these collections vary in date from Victorian ( can you see the entwined snake brooch in the picture above) up to the 1980s. The vast majority date from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Happy Hunting
Anne x
Vintage brooches fresh selection
Posted by: | CommentsBusy adding loads of Vintage Brooches to my Vintage Jewellery shop at the moment. As regular readers know antique and vintage brooches are one of my favourite forms of vintage jewellery, their shapes, forms, colours and materials are probably more varied than any other piece of jewellery.
Pinchbeck brooch
The brooches I have at the moment are mainly from the 1950s and before and include dragons, peacocks , Czechoslovakian pieces and of course lots of flowers. Adding this week and next is vintage costume jewellery brooches . There are glass and poured glass brooches, filigree with colourful glass stones and some bright enamels too. Here are a few group photos to feast your eyes on:
Here is where to find vintage brooches on antiquesavenue:
Antique and Vintage Brooches
Posted by: | CommentsThere’s a lot of fresh antique and vintage brooches on antiquesavenue this week. From Victorian through to the 1950s, there has to be a brooch for every taste. Here is a quick tour of these brooches
Victorian Amethyst Brooch
Victorian Amethyst Brooch
Here’s a genuine Victorian brooch set with a real amethyst and with a glass covered locket panel at the back containing a lock of hair. This brooch is made of gold toned metal and it also has a hinged loop so that it can be worn on a chain as a pendant.
This Victorian brooch measures about 5.5 cms long. At some stage during its life this brooch has been repaired and there are signs of this. Now the brooch is solid and wearable but offered at a bargain price due to the repairs
A very unusual Victorian cameo brooch. This cameo is carved from agate and I believe the gentleman in the picture is Napoleon. Agate cameos are much rarer than shell cameos partially because it is much harder to carve. Finding a cameo brooch where you can name the subject is also quite rare making this a very good piece of antique jewellery.
Art Nouveau Cameo Brooch
Art Nouveau Cameo Brooch
Here is a super and really rare cameo carved from Queen Conch giving a beautiful pale pink and white colour. The cameo depicts an art nouveau lady and an owl with its wings open . This is the first time I have seen this cameo. The cameo is set into a gold toned frame, in total the brooch measures about 5.2 cms long and about 4.4 cms wide.
Over the years this brooch has suffered a little with the frame being a bit wobbly ( there is one of 4 pins missing at the back) and the catch has been repaired at some point. The cameo its self has faired much better, the line you can see in the revers is from the original shell and does not go through to the design. There are two short tiny stress lines but the cameo really is sound in itself.
1950s moon glow Lucite Brooches
Moon glow Lucite brooches
A stunning pair of vintage brooches made of pink moon glow Lucite and dating from the 1950s. The brooches have moon glow Lucite beads and also matching pink aurora borealis beads. Each brooch has multiple tassels hanging down. These brooches measure up to 7 cms long and will make a real statement when worn especially if you wear both together.
100 years of brooches
Posted by: | CommentsI know many visitors to AntiquesAvenue are fond of antique and Vintage brooches. Today I have been adding a few lovely brooches from the Victorian era and through the 1900s. Lets take a tour of 100 years of brooches.
Victorian bird brooch
Starting with this Antique Brooch a Victorian stunner ( ok its not on the site yet, I want to keep it for myself for a short while ) This exotic bird is set with turquoise, pearl and has a garnet red eye. The bird is silver and gold and he sits on a multi coloured gold branch and brooch. This brooch is quite an impressive size at 5.7 cms long. It dates from the later 1800s. Watch out for this beauty coming to AntiquesAvenue later this year.
The rest of the Vintage Brooches here in this blog entry are already on antiquesavenue.co.uk
Citrine Brooch
A real sunshine brooch, its set with three real citrines and sparkles a wonderful golden colour. Of course these citrines are set into gold .
Violin Brooch
An unusual brooch for a music lover, made of silver in the shape of a violin.
Spitfire brooch
How about this solid gold brooch made in the shape of a spitfire and dating from the 1930s – sure to be a hit with flying enthusiasts.
Gold owl brooch
Finally for today here is a lovely gold owl brooch with diamond eyes . This is jut a few of the antique and vintage brooches I have added today so do pop over to www. antiquesavenue.co.uk to look.
3 vintage jewellery pieces from the 20th century
Posted by: | CommentsVintage Jewellery changed quite dramatically though out the 20th century. Here are three wonderful pieces just added to antiques avenue antique shop which show the wide variety and wonderful forms available today . As I am currently writing a series of articles on how to date your vintage jewelery I though you would be interested in seeing these and how I have placed them into their time slots.
1. Vintage brooch – Edwardian garnet cabochon and pearl
Vintage brooch - Edwardian
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Tell Vintage Jewellery from Antique Jewellery by the hinge
Posted by: | CommentsHinges are most often found on brooches rather than any other form of jewellery. By just looking at the hinge it is often possible to date a brooch broadly into the 1800s ( Georgian and Victorian) vs the 1900s ( Edwardian, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, onwards). There are two important types of hinge to consider on vintage and antique brooches;
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Vintage Jewellery – just a few choice pieces
Posted by: | CommentsJust thought I’d show you a few choice pieces of vintage jewellery that I have available at the moment of antiquesavenue. Vintage costume jewellery is often seen being worn but there are some very lovely pieces made of silver too. It is very rare for me to have more than one of any item in stock so if you find these as wonderful as I do you need to take a look soon. All items are genuine vintage.
Vintage jewellery including earrings:
pink heart earrings
silver bracelet
vintage brooch
Tomorrow I’ll find a few pieces of vintage gold jewellery for you to see as well – Wonderful and sparkling though costume jewellery can be vintage jewellery can be about design, style and taste as well as bright glitz.
Butterfly wing to vintage jewellery
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Here is a subject I find a little difficult – brooches made from butterfly wings. These were very popular in the art deco era, the wonderful shine on the bright blue looked beautiful set into silver. Above are a couple of examples of genuine vintage brooches set with butterfly wings.
But what about the poor butterflies? These insects must have been wonderful to see in the wild – I am sure they are not like any I have ever seen in the UK. Where do they come from and did they suffer for our jewellery. Hopefully these are not still being made today. What should we do with the brooches from the past set with butterfly wings? Does collecting them encourage them to be produced today?
Personally I would never collect or wear them. I only buy and sell them when they come in with a lot of other jewellery . If I were to stop selling them what would I do with the ones that I do get? Like I said at the beginning of the post – its difficult. Any suggestions?
