Vintage Costume and Estate Jewelry
Vintage Signed Weiss Rhinestone Circle Brooch
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Description: This is a stunning large authentic vintage WEISS brooch (not a repro!), with prong-set, silvery aurora borealis marquis shaped rhinestones. They reflect blue, green and gold in different light. Arranged in an overlapping wreathe or circle shape, they have V shaped clusters of tiny white rhinestones around the larger ones. The metal base is a pewter toned gunmetal. Stamped WEISS in capital letters. The pin stem has a locking C clasp.
Condition: Excellent, no missing, chipped or cloudy stones.
Size: 2.5 inches wide.
Price: $188.00
1930's Masonic Fraternal Free Mason's Rhinestone Pin, Cross and Doubleheaded Eagle
Description: This is
an amazing early fraternal medal awards brooch, and I believe it to be Masonic because of the double headed eagle on the dropped pendant. On the eagles it says "37" in deco lettering. They are suspended by two chains from the upper piece which is like an inverted half moon encrusted with rhinestones. Most are white stones but a celtic cross shape is formed by the emerald cut rhinestones in red, gold and green. An additional "crown" area at the very top has more small colored stones. All of these are channel set in white pot metal.
The pin has a working C clasp. On the back it is enscribed: "FRED G. DAHLIN, Chicago ILL." Fabulous bit of Free Mason history and a really unusual Thirties jewelry item.
Condition: Excellent. No cloudy or missing stones, no flaws.
Size: 1.75 inches wide and 3.5 inches tall.
Price: $255.00
50's Vintage Blue Rhinestone Juliana Style Pin
Description: This is a terrific looking chunky, substantial square Fifties brooch in luscious light blue and dark blue rhinestones. Round, square and marquis cuts make a stylized sunburst in a square format.
Silvertone metal with open backs give the stones lots of lustre. Working, locking C-clasp pin stem. No signature.
Condition: Excellent. No cloudy or missing stones.
Size: 2 by 2 inches.
Price: $49.00
Vintage Mexican Sterling Silver Ostrich Pin
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Description: This is a great, whimsical brooch from the 1950s from Mexico. Probably Taxco area. It's signed MADE IN MEXICO STERLING. Very large, it is a hollowform handcrafted silver pin that depicts a strutting ostrich in profile. Handmade non-locking pin stem and clasp on back. Amazing details make it utterly charming!
Condition: In excellent vintage condition with natural patina, as found and unpolished.
Size: 3 inches tall and 2.25 inches wide. Weighs about 1 oz.
Price: $165.00
Navajo Cuff: Fred Harvey Style, Dark Natural Turquoise & Stamped Silver Trade Bracelet, 1930s/1940s Vintage
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Description: This is a beautiful and highly collectible vintage Native American bracelet from the 1930s or early 1940s. Unsigned, as was typical of the period, this was likely a Navajo cuff bracelet made for sale to the tourist trade at a Fred Harvey type of trading post.
It is thick, heavy, non-maleable rolled silver (I believe it's coin silver - you can still see the rolled out marks on the back), with beautiful American Indian geometric stampwork. The desirable rectangular cut stone is a gorgeous dark green natural turquoise from the South West, possibly originating from a Nevada mine, based on the emerald color. This is a beauty, totally authentic. Not the cheap imported stuff that came later.
Condition: Fantastic. I buffed it very lightly for the pictures but it still has all the natural original patina.
Size: Weighs one ounce or 30 grams. Measures 6.5 inches end to end, and 11/16th's of an inch wide at the widest center part. The turquoise is 5/8ths of an inch tall.
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Price: $349.00
Vintage 1950s Taxco Mexican Sterling Torque Style Necklace
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Description: This is a stunningly simple sculptural silver vintage necklace from Taxco, Mexico. Amazingly heavy, the sterling choker is open at the back and it rests naturally on your collarbone. Classic 1950s Mexican raised hollowform silver!
Signed on the back and hallmarked "Mexico TH-39 925." The "T" refers to Taxco and the H is the maker's initial. A real treasure!
Condition: Perfect vintage. Some natural patina.
Size: Hefty, weighing 3 ounces. It's about 14.5 inches end to end, the longer section on the left is 8 inches. At the bottom where the pieces cross over, it's 1.75 inches wide, and overall the metal is about 1/8th inches thick.
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Price: $395.00
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