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Luxurious Bar Brooch With 2,70 Ct Old European Cut Diamonds In Gold & Platinum, Vienna Circa 1925

€ 4,980.00 ^*

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Luxurious Bar Brooch With 2,70 Ct Old European Cut Diamonds In Gold & Platinum, Vienna Circa 1925

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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!

Until well into the 20th century, the path to a new piece of jewellery rarely led to the jeweller. Far more often, women and men turned to a goldsmith to have a new piece of jewellery made there according to their own ideas and in exchange with the craftsman. A typical procedure we can observe again and again: Instead of creating the new pieces completely from scratch, often existing rings, brooches and necklaces were included and reused in parts. In this way, jewellery was created that could continue to write the history of one's own family and at the same time be as traditional as it was modern. This unique brooch from the early 1920s is such a piece. It is in the form of an elongated shuttle and thus belongs to the type of stick pins that were extremely popular at the time. The fact that it has an elegant and cool sparkling platinum face on its yellow gold body is also very much in keeping with the times. The diamonds used, with which the piece of jewellery is richly equipped, however, show themselves in a clearly older cut form! The nine center-set gemstones show up in individual Old Mine cuts and were probably already cut in the first half of the 19th century. The large stones have a total weight of about 2.50 ct and are accompanied by smaller old European cuts and diamond roses. The hallmark allows us to date the gem very accurately. The pin bears the Austrian bear head mark, which was used only in the years from 1922 to 1925. The city letter "W" also reveals that the brooch was made in the capital city of Vienna. The pin is in very good condition. Thanks to a bayonet clasp it closes securely. Then as now, its applications are many: pin the pin, for example, vertically on the lapel of a blazer, horizontally on a belt band or use it to fix the neckline of a wrap blouse. This elegant piece of jewellery came to us from Hamburg.

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It was hard to imagine the first decades of the 20th century without the bar brooch from the well-stocked jewelry box. They were worn in many different ways, and particularly creatively during the Art Deco period. For example, the German fashion journal "Die Dame" let it be known in its fashion notes of 1925 that people now wore "rather voluminous pins, which always look best at the front of the waist as a clasp or finish to an insert." But they could also be seen as the finial of a blouse collar, or even pinned over garçonnes ties.

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€ 4,980.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

Incl. VAT, Shipping

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