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Vintage Bar Brooch with Pearl & White Spinels, ca. 1960


€ 389.00 *
Content 1 piece
Unit price €389.00 / piece
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Vintage Bar Brooch with Pearl & White Spinels, ca. 1960
Vintage Bar Brooch with Pearl & White Spinels, ca. 1960
Description
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The brooch presented here is a typical piece of the economic miracle years. It is designed in the form of a bar brooch, slender and slightly widening towards the center. It is made of yellow gold and presents in its center a beautiful pearl in light bouton shape. To the right and left, the pearl is flanked by two white spinels that appear almost like diamonds. Bar pins like this one were worn by fashion-conscious ladies in the years between the wars on the collar of their high-necked blouses. Back then, they were made of white gold or platinum and usually shone bright and white. Then in the post-war period, the brooches moved to the side, on the lapel of the coat or on the side of the sweater. And they were now made in yellow gold, as the new fashion demanded. Brooches like these emerged in different designs and different price ranges. With precious diamonds or, as here, with white, synthetic spinels. This helped broader sections of the population to be able to afford jewellery made of gold for the first time: A contribution to democratization after the war. We reproduce a page from a mail order catalog from 1961, which presents very similar brooches.
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Vintage Bar Brooch with Pearl & White Spinels, ca. 1960
The Icing on the Cake
€ 389.00 *
Content 1 piece
Unit price €389.00 / piece
Incl. VAT, Shipping
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