Vintage brooches is a category that includes all brooches from the second half of the 10th century. Second hand brooches, Retro brooches, contemporary brooches. The vintage brooches are less than 50 years old, they are coming back today. It is worn on jacket lapels, hats, coats.
Vintage brooches
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880,00€Retro Fern Diamond Brooch in 18-karat rose gold (750) and platinum. This brooch from the Retro period takes the form of two fern leaves, connected by a platinum band set with three brilliant-cut diamonds. An antique brooch, circa 1945, from France.
It bears the hallmark of the eagle’s head (French hallmark for 18-karat gold) and the goldsmith’s hallmark “EL.”
Dimensions: 28 x 50 mm.
Estimated diamond weight: 0.04 carats.
Condition: shows signs of wear scratches.
Weight: 8.80 gr
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5500,00€Lizard sapphire turquoise brooch in 18 karat (750) yellow gold. Brooch representing a lizard whose back is set with an alternating line of 11 sapphires and 10 turquoise cabochons. The rendering of the scales is precisely executed with chasing, giving the jewel a naturalistic look. Animal brooch from the 1960s.
Eagle head hallmark and hallmark of the Parisian silversmith Chevrier, Huot & Didelot (active between 1949 and 1961).
Dimensions: 2.8 x 6 cm
Note : An identical model, signed by Cartier, can be seen on Hervé Chassaing’s website. It is possible that the workshop that made this brooch did so for Cartier Paris, or proposed models that the company then signed.
Provenance: Former collection of a lapidary who worked in a subcontracting workshop for Cartier Paris.Weight: 13.75 g
*The antique box is not sold with the jewel*
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2200,00€Retro ruby brooch in yellow gold 18 karats (750). Brooch composed of a bar decorated with three half-cylinders with enamelled black triangles and decorated with lines of rubies. Four chains set with rubies hold three pendants also enamelled with black triangles. The whole jewel has 86 faceted oval rubies, totaling approximately 1.21 carat. The suspended parts are mobile. Brooch from the Retro period, 1940s-1950s.
Owl hallmark, affixed afterwards.
Dimensions: 50 mm x 55 mm x 8.4 mmTotal weight of the rubies: 1,21 carat
Condition: small traces of soldering, some enamel jumps; slight oxidation
Weight : 15.92 gr
*The antique box is not sold with the jewel*
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4400,00€Large Retro flower brooch in pink gold 18 karats and platinum. This important brooch figures a bunch of flowers. The central flower is set with seven cabochon rubies forming the pistil, its platinum stem is set with 27 diamonds, baguette cut, old cut and 8/8 cut. To its left is a budding flower whose stem is also in platinum set with 27 old-cut and 8/8-cut diamonds. Two gold leaves complete the bouquet, which is held together by a gold ribbon in the typical shapes of the Retro period. Brooch circa 1940.
“Registered” model, eagle head hallmark, dog head hallmark, goldsmith’s hallmark ..E
Dimensions : 9 cm x 6 cm
Estimated weight of diamonds : 1.60 carat
Estimated weight of rubies : 0.56 caratCondition : oxidations, scratches of use
Weight : 42.82 gr
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1100,00€Austrian poppy flower brooch in 14 karat white gold. Retro brooch forming a poppy with pink agate petals, tinted. The heart of the flower is made of onyx centered with an old cut diamond. The leaves are finely executed in nephrite jade. The agate, onyx and nephrite have been carved by hand. The white gold stem is set with five rose-cut diamonds. Austrian vintage jewel of the 1940s/1950s, Vienna, signed R.T.
Austrian hallmark for 14 karat gold, mark “585”, R.T. goldsmith’s hallmark
This work is similar to the Austrian Hugler’s House of the same period.
Dimensions: 47 mm x 21 mm
Estimated diamond weight: 0.05 carat
Note: the clasp and its security are working
Condition : scratches from useWeight : 6.13 gr
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350,00€Scrible Paloma Picasso Tiffany & Co brooch in sterling silver forming a “scribble”. Iconic piece from her collection made in the 1980s for Tiffany&Co. Brooch signed Paloma Picasso, daughter of Pablo Picasso, dated 1985, for the jewellery house Tiffany&Co.
Stamped 1985 TIFFANY&Co, Sterling, signed Paloma Picasso (born 1949)
Dimensions: 65 mm x 47 mm
Note: the closing system works
Condition: scratches from useWeight : 11,41 gr