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Elegant Antique Scarf Brooch With Peridot & Diamonds In Gold, USA Circa 1910

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Elegant Antique Scarf Brooch With Peridot & Diamonds In Gold, USA Circa 1910

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This description was automatically translated from German. If you have any questions about this piece of jewellery, we will be happy to help!

With each dress fashion also emerged (and disappeared) special, matching forms of jewellery. In the years shortly after 1900, when ladies liked to adorn themselves with large scarves and collars made of lace and other light fabrics, a special type of brooch appeared, which was supposed to hold these loosely folded accessories tight and together. "The safety pin, as the smallest, most delicate toilet piece [...] is to be needed in all forms to a lady's toilet. Who even suspects the limit of usability of such needle? They are necessary for tie loops and ties, for jabots and collars, in a larger form for belts, skirt and jacket closures, for gathering up wide sleeves [...]." Thus, in 1904, the Deutsche Goldschmiedezeitung extolled the usefulness of a pin in an article called "The Jewellery as a Gift." The brooch here is such a safety pin with luxurious trim. Centered on the high karat gold work is a square, step cut peridot. A shadow gap separates the stone set on top from its white enameled framing. On either side, four diamond roses each lead to the brooch's bars. Wisely, the stones are set in closed frames so that nothing could snag here in a scarf made of delicate fabric. The graphically reduced formal language is quite typical of the years around 1910 and already hints at the austerity of Art Deco. Presumably, the brooch was made in the United States, as the hallmarking reveals. We were able to acquire it in Havelland and brought it to Berlin. It is very well preserved.

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Many little everyday helpers are so common and everyday that we often can hardly imagine that even these little things once had to be invented. To get along without them seems so difficult that it seems unimaginable that they have not always existed. The zipper is one such example, the Velcro fastener, or also: the safety pin. In fact, the safety pin was invented by the American inventor Walter Hunt, who applied for a patent in 1849. It quickly made its way around the world, so that in France it is still called (not quite correctly) "Épingle anglaise".

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€ 980.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

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