Rare Gold Lapel Pin Shaped as an Airplane, c. 1909

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Rare Gold Lapel Pin Shaped as an Airplane, c. 1909

€ 1,690.00 ^*

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Description

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An airplane flying through a golden ring - sounds daring, but is actually the motif of this eye-catching lapel pin! And best of all: the propeller and rudder are movable and the propeller's screw is a small natural pearl. Back then, people obviously knew how to create a talking point on their lapels! This piece of jewellery belongs to the large family of so-called "novelties", i.e. pieces of jewellery that were deliberately designed to be playful, humorous or surprising. In the late 19th century, such accessories were particularly popular in England: brooches in the shape of animals, mundane everyday objects as pendants or mechanically movable pieces of jewellery that were worn with a wink. The main aim was to have fun, to be original - and perhaps also to make onlookers smile. While other pieces of jewellery of the time relied on diamond flowers or bows, here a mini airplane soars through the air. We think that the gold airplane was created around the first successful Channel crossing by Louis Blériot in January 1909. The plane looks very similar to his Blériot XI monoplane, the first plane to be mass-produced after the successful flight. Today, the needle looks like a tongue-in-cheek miniature of the pioneering era: a piece of jewellery that combines mechanical sophistication, humor and a vision of the future. We discovered the needle here in Berlin. It was created either in France or Great Britain.

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€ 1,690.00 ^*

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