Vintage brooch selection

Wanting a vintage brooch this Christmas? Here is the latest selection available from antiquesavenue.co.uk:
Hint: Click on the pictures to enlarge.

Do you like this way of viewing all my vintage brooches? If so I will add a new view every month or so

Giving Vintage Brooches this Christmas

 

Have you started someone a  Vintage Brooches collection by giving them a brooch as a gift? Or do you know someone who you would like to start a collection for? Here are some ideas of collectable brooches which are quite wearable too. As its nearly Christmas and we are looking at gifts I'll make a change from my normal way and look at them in price order

Budget Vintage Brooches
Looking to by lots of presents on a budget or give a great start to a collection in one go? Consider one of AntiquesAvenue's vintage brooch collections ready made. There is currently a great selection including a harlequin vintage brooch collection from circa 1940s


Here is a collection of 9 vintage brooches. These are all made of filigree metal and are set with a harlequin coloured range of diamante stones. These brooches all date from circa 1930s and are the type which were made in Czechoslovakia.




These brooches would normally sell for over £200 if they were sold individually but as I have so many brooches for sale at the moment I am offering these as a collection at a bargain price. 8 of these brooches have a standard catch on the back , one is a clip type. The longest brooch measures about 7 cms long and the smallest is just under 4 cms wide. All of these vitnage brooches are in excellent condition

I also have a vintage brooch collection in red and some great pairs of brooches from about £25.


Investment Brooches

I believe that some vintage brooches make a great investment for the future and would be suitable for a younger person who will keep and treasure them for many years and at the same time be able to see a rise in value. Investment brooches are likely to have a designer name take a look at Christian Dior, Norman Hartnell, Trifari or Yves St Laurent.


Maison Gripoix pate de verre flower brooch

 Maison Gripoix are one of the most sought after names in vintage costume jewellery. This Paris based company has created jewellery for many of the leading fashion houses as well as pieces sold under their own brand. The signature style of Maison Gripoix is hand made Pate de verre pieces of jewellery such as this wonderful flower brooch.
This Maison Gripoix Patte de verre flower brooch is in great condition with no chips or crazing to the glass , it measures about 5.5 cms long. One of the best costume jewllery brooches you could wish to find.




Luxury Brooches

Gold and Opal brooch

Want to splash out on someone special? How about a gold brooch? This brooch is Set with opals and pearls. I think its one of the prettiest you will find and sure to be a favourite present this year. This gold brooch is really pretty. The flowers are set with real opals and pearls. The opals sparkle with colour. This brooch is made of fully hallmarked nine carat gold and dates from the 1980s. It measures about 3 cms diameter and is in really excellent clean condition.

5 most popular brooches

Ive been looking at which types of brooches seem to be the most popular on AntiquesAvenue. Here is the current top 5
5 Lava Cameo Brooch
These cameos are carved from Lava instead of the usual shell. They  are much rarer than shell cameos and quite sought after by connoisseurs of Victorian Jewellery. The Lava is from the Italian volcanoes such as Mount Etna and Vesuvius.

4. Amber Brooches
I cant get enough amber brooches - these usually sell out as soon as they hit the shelves of antiquesavenue.co.uk. The most popular are art nouveau amber and silver brooches,

3 Butterfly Brooch
What is it about butterflies and jewellery? Especially butterfly brooches. So popular as gifts

2. Mizpah Brooch
The favourite of separated lovers, May the Lord watch between me and the when we are parted one from another

1. Vintage Brooch

Diamante set, big bright and bold ready for the party season

Vintage Brooches for Christmas

As regular readers know I often suggest brooches for gifts at Christmas. Antique and Vintage brooches make such excellent presents as getting the size right is not as important as it is with many other pieces of vitnage jewellery and so you can concentrate on the design of the brooch when making your choice. This year I am thinking of making all the Christmas gifts of vintage brooches I give being in the Christmas colours - red, gold and green. Here are a few suggestions from antiquesavenue for excellent red. gold and green themed brooches for you to give this year:

Red brooches, These two are both set with sparkling red diamante:

Gold Brooches - there is such a wide choice:

Green diamante Brooch

Making it easier to find vintage brooches

The vintage brooches section on antiquesavenue has just been re-organised to make finding them easier ( I hope) . The vintage costume jewellery brooches are now in a subsection of vintage brooches. Antique brooches have their own area too.

Here is a preview of some of the special brooches and pins you can find:

Marcasite Brooches

Have you seen vintage brooches set with marcasites? These little gemstones make silver sparkle and shine especially under artificial light. Marcasites are a form of iron pyrite ( or fools gold)  and look similar to cut steel jewellery which was popular in Georgian times.  Marcasite set brooches were particularly popular during the 1950s and they come in a wonderful range of shapes and forms.
Marcasites can be set both into real silver and silver tone costume jewellery. As well as being set into brooches other vintage jewellery forms with marcasites include necklaces and bracelets. Here are a few quality vintage brooches with marcasites available from antiquesavenue:

Gold hand with jewellery vintage brooch

Is this the most wonderful old vintage brooch you have ever seen. This gold hand has a laces cuff, a real charm bracelet style bracelet ( complete with diamond ring) and it holding an inscribed calling card. Hand jewellery is quite collectable. This brooch has full nine carat gold hallmarks and can be dated to the Edwardian era. This a genuine one off antique vintage brooches are available at http://www.antiquesavene.co.uk/

Vintage Brooches Collections

I've recently purchased a lifetimes collection of vintage jewellery and in it were so many vintage costume jewellery brooches that I have bundles some of them together in lots which are offered at a much cheaper price than they would be if offered individually.

Most of these brooches date from before the 1950s - many of them being the Czechoslovakian type with filigree metal and coloured glass diamante stones. I have collections of pink brooches, Victorian Brooches, blue brooches, flower brooches and animal brooches to name just a few.

Here are a few pictures to show some of the collections of vintage brooches which are available:

Blue collection

Pink Collection

Victorian Collection

Maison Gripoix Brooch

WOW!  This brooch is so wonderful and so rare. Made by Maison Gripoix from Pate de verre or in English  glass. The company was based in Paris and only made the highest quality pieces.

Maison Gripoix are one of the most sought after names in vintage costume jewellery. This Paris based company has created jewellery for many of the leading fashion houses as well as pieces sold under their own brand. The signature style of Maison Gripoix is hand made Pate de verre pieces of jewellery such as this wonderful flower brooch.

This Maison Gripoix pate de verre flower brooch is in great condition with no chips or crazing to the glass , it measures about 5.5 cms long. One of the best costume jewllery brooches you could wish to find.

Take the opportunity to acquire this brooch now - they dont turn up very often

Tussie Mussie Vitnage Brooch to hold flowers

Have you ever seen a Tussie-Mussie? These are very special form of vintage brooch made to hold a small posy or sprig of flowers. Originally Tussie-Mussie was the name given to the posy of flowers its self but during the Victorian era brooches were developed which pinned the flowers to the clothing and protected the clothing from staining at the same time. The Tussie-Mussie brooch also hides the flower stems.

Vintage Tussie-Mussie brooches are very collectable now. AntiquesAvenue has one available at the moment :

Here is a Vintage Tussie Mussie Brooch, a brooch meant to hold a posy of real flowers. This Tussie Mussie is in the shape of a flower basket with the basket top being open for you to pin your own fresh flower posy into.
Vintage Tussie Mussies are now quite rare and collectable. This brooch is made of silver toned filigree metal, the silver tone is a little faded and I have priced this accordingly. This Tussie Mussie brooch probably dates from the 1930s - there is a trombone type clasp on the back

Here's another  tussie mussie brooch is probably from the 1950s and with the stag and acorn decoration were most likely meant to hold something like a sprig of heather onto a tweed jacket.

AntiquesAvenue likes to stock vintage Tussie Musie brooches but I find it difficult to get stocks of these . please use this search to see if I currently have any in stock Tussie Mussies