Fun fashion brooches

[mrs-b]

Indeed! We need to bring back the brooch love! Thank you. My collection/obsession started with my Christmas pins. I found that it was so much easier to wear a brooch on a sweater during the winter than my pendants. Once Christmas was over though there still was a heck of a lot of winter left so I started collecting other ones. The past couple years I have branched out into "real" ones to the dismay of my wallet. But I still can't pass by a Christmas one.

@Catmom, I...um...bought you one after I started reading this thread; I just wanted to add to your collection! It came a few days ago, but I decided that it wasn't good enough, so I deleted the photo I had posted here for about 3 minutes. But I'm now keeping my eye out!

(and no - I'm not going to show you - I feel silly now! But I'm a-lookin'!)

 

[Catmom]

@Catmom, I...um...bought you one after I started reading this thread; I just wanted to add to your collection! It came a few days ago, but I decided that it wasn't good enough, so I deleted the photo I had posted here for about 3 minutes. But I'm now keeping my eye out!

(and no - I'm not going to show you - I feel silly now! But I'm a-lookin'!)

Mrs_b that's so nice of you to think of me but you really shouldn't. You should have a Christmas collection! Holly pins I think. I want to see how many variations you can find, lol.

 

[JPie]

I purchased this rhinestone brooch on eBay many years ago. I wore it in my hair for my wedding, and my sister wore it in hers at her wedding. It holds a lot of sentimental value now.

 

[whitewave]

I purchased this rhinestone brooch on eBay many years ago. I wore it in my hair for my wedding, and my sister wore it in hers at her wedding. It holds a lot of sentimental value now.

It’s so pretty!

 

[whitewave]

My notifications stopped for this post(?) so forgive me while I catch up on old posts tomorrow

 

[Catmom]

I purchased this rhinestone brooch on eBay many years ago. I wore it in my hair for my wedding, and my sister wore it in hers at her wedding. It holds a lot of sentimental value now.

It's beautiful and I love that both you and your sister wore it for your weddings. How special!

 

[shoechick]

Hi all you brooch lovers!!

I have this Bauer brooch and I not sure how to clean it. Suggestions?

 

[Catmom]

Hi all you brooch lovers!!

I have this Bauer brooch and I not sure how to clean it. Suggestions?

Oh I really like that! Perfect for Valentines Day. I clean mine the same way I do my real jewelry, a baby toothbrush and some Dawn dish washing soap. Rinse off and blow dry. I haven't lost any stones this way yet. Be gentle with the scrubbing.

 

[shoechick]

Oh I really like that! Perfect for Valentines Day. I clean mine the same way I do my real jewelry, a baby toothbrush and some Dawn dish washing soap. Rinse off and blow dry. I haven't lost any stones this way yet. Be gentle with the scrubbing.

Thanks @Catmom! I wasn’t sure if that was ok with the rhinestones. But now that I think about it, they aren’t foil backed so should be ok.

I bought this brooch to give to my mom as a gift because she likes hearts and heart jewelry. But she doesn’t wear brooches whereas I do and I really liked it so I kept it. I know, bad!

 

[Catmom]

Thanks @Catmom! I wasn’t sure if that was ok with the rhinestones. But now that I think about it, they aren’t foil backed so should be ok.

I bought this brooch to give to my mom as a gift because she likes hearts and heart jewelry. But she doesn’t wear brooches whereas I do and I really liked it so I kept it. I know, bad!

LOL, I wouldn't say keeping it was bad at all, lol.

 

[Catmom]

Hmm, speaking of bad, I told myself I wasn't going to buy any more Christmas pins. Then the Smithsonian just had to have a Christmas in July sale..........so guess what just came?




Oh yeah, those Christmas bangles came too, lol.

 

[YadaYadaYada]

Vintage swan brooch by Pell

 

[Catmom]

Vintage swan brooch by Pell

Oh that's gorgeous. I love it!

 

[icy_jade]

I love this thread so here is my contribution

 

[Catmom]

I love this thread so here is my contribution

Oh I love it!! I really like how they did the body. I used to have a few stick pins. Hmm, I wonder where they ended up? I may have to look around, lol.

 

[Bluegemz]

I bought this today in a little vintage shop. I thought this would be great for those black Fall and Winter tops and sweaters. I just love the moonstone like abdomen!

 

[Catmom]

I bought this today in a little vintage shop. I thought this would be great for those black Fall and Winter tops and sweaters. I just love the moonstone like abdomen!

Oh that's awesome! I love it. It will really pop on a black sweater.

 

[Bluegemz]

Oh that's awesome! I love it. It will really pop on a black sweater.

Thank you so much! This is my first fashion brooch which I’ve ‘had to have!’ I saw it yesterday and couldn’t stop thinking about it, so I had to go back.

I used to have a huge rhinestone silvery star brooch which was borrowed by one of my girls and that’s the last time I saw it. That was my first, but with this one, I can tell that it will not be my last.

 

[Catmom]

Thank you so much! This is my first fashion brooch which I’ve ‘had to have!’ I saw it yesterday and couldn’t stop thinking about it, so I had to go back.

I used to have a huge rhinestone silvery star brooch which was borrowed by one of my girls and that’s the last time I saw it. That was my first, but with this one, I can tell that it will not be my last.

Oh it's such a slippery slope, lol. There is a store on Sanibel Island that I love to go to because they have the largest collection of vintage brooches I've ever seen. I can spend hours there looking at each one.

 

[Bluegemz]

Oh it's such a slippery slope, lol. There is a store on Sanibel Island that I love to go to because they have the largest collection of vintage brooches I've ever seen. I can spend hours there looking at each one.

It would be a favorite place of mine too. I love seeing the older world glamor and styles of the past, and brooches have such unique and fun expressions in them. It seems to me that some of the most playful and dramatic themes have been expressed in brooches. Rings tend to be more serious with focus on longevity, earrings as tie together pieces, and necklaces as sentimental pieces....( of course exceptions to this), but in brooches, fun and whimsy seem to rule.

 

[Catmom]

It seems another one followed me home from Sanibel. I have to stop going there. There are not enough days between Thanksgiving and Christmas to wear all these brooches but does that stop me? Nooooooooooooooooo! I love this one because it's different.

 

[Ariadne_Theia]

It's gorgeous! I love the gold with the greenery on top.

 

[Catmom]

It's gorgeous! I love the gold with the greenery on top.

Thanks! That's what drew me in. It's a lovely shade of brushed gold.

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

found it !
i brought this for $20 from a charity shop
i pinned it to something in my wardrobe and then promply forgot about it
luckery i found it when we moved

 

[Catmom]

found it !
i brought this for $20 from a charity shop
i pinned it to something in my wardrobe and then promply forgot about it
luckery i found it when we moved

Glad you found it! Lovely!

 

[Catmom]

Hubby got this one for my birthday. Tsavorite, MOP and Abelone. He's pretty cool!

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

what do you have?

I’ll post mine tomorrow

was i sleep when you started this tread ?



maybe i had not joined PS yet ??
edited
nope
just forgot
i must say i was a bit stingy with the like button back in 2018

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

@Catmom, your holiday brooches are divine!
I once had a nice Christmas tree brooch, but I gave it to the grocery cashier who admired it.
Spread the brooch love, right?

perhaps by her wearing it she inspired others to wear brooches again

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

so anyway ive woken this thread up

the poor old brooch is so neglected these days
it doesnt help we no longer have the Queen's weekly visits to church to look forward to either
And its always quite hard to find the right thread
i do try really hard to choose the right sub forum and abide by the rules

so anyway it took so long to get here i almost forgot to post why im here
but i have been a very bad girl
see im not a crazy cat woman
but i seem to now have my own cat colony
but ive taken a fancy to AJC's cute little cat brooches
they are much too well made to be labeled junk jewlery and from what ive seen on the internet they are collectable

AJC funny jewellery - Jewellery Kaleidoscope

AJC funny jewellery, Incorporated in 1927 in Pittsburgh American Jewelry Chain Co known as AJC ceased to exist in 1997

nasvete.com

but
well
i had a bit of a splurge
see it happened because ive gone soooooo long only buying groceries and paying bills
i needed some fun

and yes, the $$$ should be going toward pearls and all my repair and alteration list
but i worked sooooooo hard last week at work my entire body ached for days so i bl**dy well deserved it
(yes i know im ment to be saving for a new washing machine)

........ok also if i must confess the truth i also brought some small pieces of royal family commerative china .....

so back to the cats from JJ JOnnette/AJC
i brought three last xmas
2 xmas ones and one other non xmas one
i think they are puewter
not sure what the 'gold' ones are made off (gold coloured paint?)

and now i find quite a few of them on trade me (NZ Ebay)
i google to see what they are going for on etsy and never pay more
now i need to go on a diet so ill be cold this winter and want to wear coats

oh and another one is waiting for the auction to close in the next hour

 

[stracci2000]

Thanks for waking up this thread, @Daisys and Diamonds !
Here are some of my favorites.
The pink one is Lisner. The pearl and green enamel is Francois. The others are unmarked.


In this photo below, the golden colored rhinestone pin is Weiss, and the bow shaped pin is Miriam Haskell. It's always exciting to find pins with the good collectible names! The sterling filigree blue and white one is Delft. The others are unmarked.
I especially like the bar pins. They are over 100 years old, with paste stones.