This wonderful Duette clip brooch features innovative, high quality design and was most likely created in France in the 1930s.
Condition Report:
Excellent
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The Details...
Although un-hallmarked, this Duette clip brooch is highly likely to be created from silver. It features a 3D bow design detailed in its entirety with small, round Marcasite stones. The brooch mechanism fastens with a trombone catch and the fastening pin attaches to the reverse of the brooch with a round hinge. The Duette brooch measures 7cm x 2.5cm. Each individual clip measures 3.5cm x 2.25cm.
A Short History...
Duette brooches are also known as double-clip brooches. They feature a pin-backed mount into which two dress clips can be inserted, so they can be worn together as one brooch or as two separate jewels.
Wear it With...
Brooches are an exceptionally simple way to add instant vintage styling to any look and interest to plain materials. Pin this piece onto a hat, lapel, collar, cuff, scarf, sleeve, waistline or bag - wear alone or with a selection.
The jewellery within the Gemma Redmond Vintage collection has survived to this day because it has been well cared for throughout its lifetime. It is important to continue to care for the jewellery that you buy from us to ensure its continued preservation. Here are some suggestions:
- Be sure to store your jewellery within the boxes that we provide to ensure that it is protected. This is especially important when travelling with your pieces.
- Try not to get perfume or hairspray on your items. These liquids can damage the materials that our jewellery is made from.
- Try not to drop your jewellery or catch your jewellery against hard surfaces. If this happens over time, the findings and fixings can loosen and wear.
- Try not to get your jewellery wet. Some costume jewellery manufacturers utilised water soluble glue in the making of their pieces. Getting your jewellery wet could cause rhinestones and other details to fall away over time.
- If you wish to clean your jewellery, use a soft polishing cloth or a soft brush.
This pretty brooch was created in Limoges, France, in the 1930s.
Condition Report:
Excellent
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This brooch is the ultimate expression of early Art Deco design. Of impeccable quality and in outstanding condition, it was created in French and features rare melon cut glass.
Condition Report:
Excellent
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This rare and remarkable survivor from the Art Nouveau era dates from c.1900.
Condition Report:
Good - Some rubbing to the plating on the reverse of the brooch - this is not visible when the brooch is being worn. One purple stone is perhaps a later replacement, as it is more faceted than the other. This is only apparent upon very close inspection and does not detract from the appeal of the brooch.
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This evocative brooch features a typical Art Deco design.
Condition Report:
Very Good - An element of darkening to some of the paste stones. This is consistent with age, but does not detract from the appeal of the piece.
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This pretty brooch dates from the early 1900s. The central motif is a lady styled so typically for the era in which this piece was made.
Condition Report:
Very Good - A faint and short hairline crack at the top of the brooch. This does not affect the strength or appeal of the brooch.
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A stylish piece by the German costume jewellers Henkel and Grossé, this brooch was created in 1970.
Condition Report:
Very Good - A little rubbing to the surface of the gold plating. This is consistent with age and use and does not detract from the appeal of the piece.
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These evocatively Art Deco dress clips were most likely created in 1930s Austria.
Condition Report:
Very Good - The silver frame for the baguette paste stones is ever so slightly mis-shapen. This is only visible upon very close inspection and it does not detract from the overall appeal of these clips.
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This outstanding brooch was made in France and features a wonderfully elegant original Art Nouveau design.
Condition Report:
Excellent
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This stylish fur clip was created in c.1940 by the American Eisenberg company.
Condition Report:
Very Good - A little clouding to the larger rhinestones. This is consistent with age and does not detract from the appeal of the piece.
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This brooch is a lovely example of vintage marcasite jewellery.
Condition Report:
Excellent
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These stylish pins are unsigned, but beautiful. They were most likely made in Czechoslovakia in the 1940s.
Condition Report:
Excellent
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A beautifully designed 1950s pin - this piece was possibly created by the great French parurier, Roger Scemama.
Condition Report:
Wearable - Some loss of coating to one faux pearl and a little crazing to the surface of another faux pearl. Both of these defects are not visible when the piece is worn and do little to detract from its appeal.
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This beautiful brooch was created in 1955 in London by Harold A. Lazarus.
Condition Report:
Excellent
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This elegant brooch was created by Marcel Boucher in the midto late 1950s.
Condition Report:
Excellent
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Exceptionally rare and intricate, this Austro-Hungarian brooch was created in the mid 1800s.
Condition Report:
Good - Some wear to the enamel work and a tiny chip to the right-hand edge of the brooch. These aspects are only apparent upon very close inspection and do not detract from the appeal and rarity of the piece.
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A beautifully designed and quality constructed Late 1950s fur clip. This piece is highly likely to have been created for a French couture house.
Condition Report:
Excellent
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This wonderful Duette clip brooch features innovative, high quality design and was most likely created in France in the 1930s.
Condition Report:
Excellent
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