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Vintage Sterling Matilde Poulat Style Pendant/pin
Vintage Sterling Matilde Poulat Style Pendant/pin. 17.5 grams 2 1/8" tall
$110.00
1960's Vintage Lucite/Art Glass Mosquito/Dragonfly Brooch pin
1960's Vintage Lucite/Art Glass Mosquito/Dragonfly Brooch. This piece is super cool and estate fresh circa mid 20th century guaranteed. I think it's a ual revolution things as the way it's shaped it really would have been impossible to pin on something that didn't extend from the rest of the body like a breast. 2.75" long x 2.5" wide x 1.5" tall. No damage or issues The body is Lucite and the wings, body, and head are glass. Very unusual item. While dragonfly brooches have been popular for 150 years or so I believe this is a mosquito because of it's legs. kitshelf
$95.00
Vintage University of Texas Football Pinback Buttons
Vintage University of Texas Football Pinback Buttons. Selling the three buttons with penny for scale, circa mid 20th century. isshelf
$110.00
Don Lucas Southwestern sterling coral, and Sugilte Hatpin
Don Lucas Southwestern sterling coral, and Sugilte Hatpin 3" x 1 1/16" with no<br>issues.<br><br>The Don Lucas Heritage Collection was launched nearly 40 years ago. Handmade and<br>crafted jewelry, with Earth's rare gems and potent semi-precious stones. Don is<br>committed to preserving the origins of our country's lost traditions; honoring<br>America's Native and artful history. His authentic wearable works are at once<br>classic and bold. His commitment to custom techniques and celebrated ritual,<br>exalts the Don Lucas collection as one of the world's most appreciated bespoke<br>fine jewelry lines still alive today.
$195.00
Vintage Sterling Floral and Leaf Brooches Signed GA pin
Vintage Sterling Floral and Leaf Brooches Signed GA. Selling both, high quality<br>with no issues. 20.5 grams total.
$70.00
retired James Avery sterling Texas Sesquicentennial Lapel pin/tie tac
retired James Avery sterling Golf Clubs Tie Tac/Lapel pin. No damage, little to<br>no wear.
$195.00
Antique Wavecrest art glass pin/trinket dish
Antique Wavecrest art glass pin/trinket dish. 4.75" wide x 1.5" tall. No cracks,<br>chips, or scratches on glass.
$65.00
Southwestern Mexican sterling bear pin
Southwestern Mexican sterling bear pin. 1.25" tall x 1.75" wide with no issues.<br><br>All precious metals are tested and guaranteed, any Native American jewelry<br>referred to as Silver or Sterling is guaranteed to be a minimum of 90% (coin)<br>silver and possibly higher content. Anything marked is guaranteed to be what<br>it's marked, most bracelets are photographed on a 6" wrist (non hairy), rings<br>photographed on the appropriate sized finger when possible. With bracelets if<br>the measurement is not given in the description then inside circumference is<br>shown where the metal meets the number on the the cloth tape measure.
$45.00
Mid century modernist sterling pin
Mid century modernist sterling pin 2 1/16" x .75" with no issues.
$40.00
Southwestern Sterling Multi-Stone inlay Moose pin
Southwestern Sterling Multi-Stone inlay Moose pin. High quality piece, thick sterling, nice lapidary work. I'm unfamiliar with the Artisan. 2 7/8" x 2" x 19 grams. anderas
$125.00
Large Southwestern sterling Whimsical Cat and fish pin
Large Southwestern sterling Whimsical Cat and fish pin. 3.5" tall x 1 1/8" wide x 34.3 grams
$85.00
Rare WW1 Era Flying Squadron W.S.S. Postal Service pinback button
Rare WW1 Era Flying Squadron W.S.S. Postal Service pinback button. 1.25" wide This effort to raise money for WWI was sponsored by the postal system 1917-1920. The title "Flying Squadron" applied to experienced solicitors that worked with teams of local volunteers.
$110.00
Mao Zedong (1893-1976) Chinese Porcelain pinback button
Mao Zedong (1893-1976) Chinese Porcelain pinback button 1 5/8" wide with no damage. Mao Zedong (1893-1976) was the founding father of the People’s Republic of China, which he governed from 1949 until his death. Chairman Mao is one of the most significant figures in modern world history, and also among its most controversial. His ability to modernize China, drive out imperialists, improve healthcare and education, and promote the status of women is as undeniable as his profound human rights abuses. Some estimate that Mao was responsible for 70 million deaths in his long reign—the most ever in human history.
$45.00
retired James Avery sterling Golf Clubs Tie Tac/Lapel pin
retired James Avery sterling Golf Clubs Tie Tac/Lapel pin. No damage, little to<br>no wear.
$105.00
Vintage Israel Moss Agate/pearl gilt sterling pendant/pin
Vintage Israel Moss Agate/pearl gilt sterling pendant/pin. Fantastic with no issues. 1 5/8" wide x 12.9 grams.
$145.00
Large Early Tufa Cast Native American Turquoise/sterling pin
Large Early Tufa Cast Native American Turquoise/sterling pin. Great piece from the first half of the 20th century 2.75" wide x 1 1/8" tall, nice heavy stamping and high quality natural turquoise 17 grams. Unmarked of course, tests silver (guaranteed 90% (coin silver) or better) I actually believe this was a hair piece that was turned into a pin in the third quarter of the 20th century.
$260.00
Large Antique 18k Gold Micro-Mosaic Pin
Large Antique 18k Gold Micro-Mosaic Pin. Amazing piece of 19th century artistic<br>jewelry 2" x 1 5/8" 39.4 grams on my scale. Tested by me and an independent<br>jeweler to be 18k gold, unmarked. Appraisal shown in last pic is included.
$3,935.00
Vintage Taylord Gold Filled Ginko leaf brooch pin
Vintage Taylord Gold Filled Ginko leaf brooch. 1.5" wide 5.7 grams with no damage or detectable wear.
$40.00
ww2 Manhattan Project Nuclear test site Patch and pin
ww2 Manhattan Project Nuclear test site Patch and pin. Two authentic manhattan<br>project items estate fresh from a large ww2 collection assembled in the 80's.<br>They came in a small modern shadowbox partially shown hence the velco on the<br>back of the patch. Patch is 2 5/8" x 2", badge is .75" made by Whitehead and<br>Hoag. I'm including the glass fronted shadowbox that they came in.
$860.00
2 Modernist Mexican sterling pins cat and sunburst
2 Modernist Mexican sterling pins cat and sunburst. Both great with no issues, Sunburst mid century, cat about 1980's. Largest 1 7/8" 22 grams total.
$85.00
c1900 R Blackington American Art Nouveau Sterling brooch pin
c1900 R Blackington American Art Nouveau Sterling brooch 2.25" wide 4.5 grams<br>with no issues.<br><br>R. BLACKINTON & CO - North Attleboro, MA<br>Founded in 1862 by Walter Balou, Thomas S. Mann and Roswell Blackinton. Sold in<br>1967 to Wells Inc. Managed and owned for many years by members of Ballou and<br>Blackington families. Manufacturer of sterling silver and gold novelties. In the<br>1930s the company was in some way linked to H.R. Morss & Co., Inc. operating at<br>the same address, 244 Broad, Attleboro, and with the same management.
$65.00
Vintage Delfino Modernist Mexican sterling cat pin
Vintage Delfino Modernist Mexican sterling cat pin. Clean with no damage or<br>significant wear.
$65.00
1982 MMA Bronze Bee Stickpin
1982 MMA Bronze Bee Stickpin. Sold by the Metropolitain Museum of art in the<br>1980's, great with no significant issues. Marked on back 1982 MMA.<br>silverdrawer
$85.00
Vintage Beau Sterling rose brooch pin
Vintage Beau Sterling rose brooch. No damage or significant wear.
$45.00
Antique Scottish Sterling Moss agate kilt pin/ Thistle brooch 1.25" wide pin
Antique Scottish Sterling Moss agate kilt pin/brooch 1.25" wide. No issues.
$145.00
Antique Scottish Dirk Form Agate sterling silver Kilt pin/brooch pin
Antique Scottish Dirk Form Agate sterling silver Kilt pin/brooch 2 1/8" wide with no issues.
$165.00
Sterling Native American Kachina Pendant/pin
Sterling Native American Kachina Pendant/pin. Amazing piece, unmarked, tested sterling. From an extremely high end Native American jewelry collection that was collected over pretty much the entire last quarter of the 20th century through yearly trips to New Mexico. No detectable markings. 3" tall x 1.75" wide x 31.6 grams. There were lots of unsigned/custom pieces from many famous artisan's in this collection. This is very nice but I don't know who made it.
$350.00
7.5" Large Native American Sterling/turquoise pebbles Spiney oyster/abalone cuff
7.5" Large Native American Sterling/turquoise pebbles Spiney oyster/abalone cuff<br>bracelet. Large and unusual cuff with no issues. Native American sterling silver<br>cuff bracelet, inlaid with abalone plaques, spiny oyster shell, tumbled<br>turquoise stones, hallmarked as pictured, approx 2 3/8"w, interior: (end to end)<br>approx 6"l, gap: approx 1 5/8"w, 150.8 grams
$955.00
Large Vintage Matl Sterling Turquoise Amethyst repousse birds pendant/pin
Large Matl Sterling Turquoise Amethyst repousse birds pendant/pin, 4" tall x 3<br>1/8" wide 47 grams. No damage.<br><br>MAT-MATILDE POULAT & RICARDO SALAS JEWELRY<br>Matl is the mark that appears on some of the most beautiful and unique jewelry<br>in Mexico.<br>Matilde Eugenia Poulat introduced MATL in 1934 and, since her death in 1960, her<br>designs and techniques have been carried on by her nephew, Ricardo Salas. For<br>sr. Salas, who can recite poetry in the language of the Aztecs, the mark matl,<br>has greater meaning in its reference to the Nahuatl or Aztec word for water,<br>atl.<br><br>As a young woman, Matilde Poulat studied painting at the prestigious San Carlos<br>academy of fine arts in Mexico city, she went on to teach painting classes at an<br>art school until her interest turned exclusively to silver. Matilde Poulat´s<br>designs for jewelry and figures were part of the new cultural vision among<br>Mexico’s intellectuals after the revolution in 1920s, artists were searching for<br>Mexican aesthetic, rejection European subjects in favor of the art of the<br>pre-conquest Indians and of the Mexican pueblos. Sra. Poulat found inspiration<br>in the mextec gold jewelry discovered in 1932 at Monte Alban. Her choice of<br>motifs the dove, flowers, and tiny bells are reminiscent of the whimsical<br>subjects of contemporary Mexican folk art.<br><br>Matilde Poulat received international recognition for her jewelry when she was<br>asked in 1941 to participate in an exhibit of Latin American silver at the pan<br>American union in Washington, D.C. as a result of increasing demand for matl<br>silver during world war ii , the number of silversmiths in the taller increased<br>to thirty-three. In 1950, Srta. Poulat and her nephew opened a showroom on the<br>first floor of her home, where she also had the workshop. Ricardo Salas recalls<br>that they made three thousand types of silver jewelry and one hundred different<br>pieces.<br><br>Ricardo Salas worked closely with his aunt from the time he was eleven years of<br>age. He says she recognized his artistic talent when she saw him do a play with<br>puppets he had made himself. Sr. Salas was sent to the San Carlos academy, where<br>he received the premio Diego Rivera. As a youth, he learned the techniques of<br>the silversmith and perfected the carving of "Off White", coral, turquoise, and<br>other stones used in the jewelry and figurines. From sr. Salas perspective, he<br>and his aunt collaborated so closely as designers, that there really cannot be a<br>comparison of their work.<br><br>In 1955, William Spratling wrote of Matilde Poulat: “she has continued to<br>produce some of the most charming native jewelry in Mexico, intensely her own.<br>Her jewelry has the same charm and delightful surface and colorful quality of<br>the old lacquer work of Uruapan. Spratling`s admiration for matl silver reflects<br>his recognition of their shared appreciation for Mexican native art. This mutual<br>inspiration led each of the two artists in different directions within the same<br>medium. The exuberance of matl silver resembles the interiors of the churches in<br>Puebla, like the chapel of Santa Maria Tonantzintla, where Indians covered the<br>interior of the dome with polychromed and gilded angels. In matl silver, the<br>introduction of color is accomplished with bits of coral, turquoise, and<br>amethyst quartz. The surfaces are decorated with applied wire and elaborated<br>with embossing and repousse of astounding complexity (pl.XXIII-1, XXIII-10).<br>Matilde Poulat and Ricardo Salas have been successful in incorporating the<br>artistic language of the Mixtecs into jewelry and silver figures with<br>imagination, drama, and with a style that is completely personal.
$1,410.00
Victorian 800 Silver Celtic Revival Kilt/cloak Pin Penannular brooch pin
Victorian 800 Silver Celtic Revival Kilt/cloak Pin Brooch 1.75" x 1 5/8" 19.4<br>grams.<br><br>These split ring brooches, known as penannulars, were originally worn on<br>tartans; look wonderful on shawls, sweaters, jackets, coats or capes
$155.00
Antique Scottish 15ct gold citrine, amethyst, and agate pin
Antique Scottish 15ct gold citrine, amethyst, and agate pin. 2 1/16" x 1 5/8"<br>with no damage, tested by me to be at least 14k gold but fades at 18k. Circa<br>1870 12.1 grams.
$965.00
Antique Scottish Agate/Amethyst/sterling thistle pin
Antique Scottish Agate/Amethyst/sterling thistle pin. Very nice 19th century<br>example fresh from a local estate collection 2.5" wide x 2" tall 31.4 grams<br>unmarked but tested sterling. Amazing condition with no detectable issues. Lot<br>of amazing hand engraving.
$440.00
Retired James Avery Sterling onyx cross pendant/pin
Retired James Avery Sterling onyx cross pendant/pin. Very clean with no damage<br>or detectable wear. 1.75" wide.
$185.00
Large Mid Century Copper enamel seahorse brooch pin
Large Mid Century Copper enamel seahorse brooch. 2" wide great vintage handmade piece with no detectable markings or damage.
$85.00
1940's Chinese Coral/Gilt Silver filigree brooch pin
1940's Chinese Coral/Gilt Silver filigree brooch. 2.5" wide natural gem grade coral cabochons set in high content silver plated in gold. No damage.
$185.00
30's-40's Navajo Silver and turquoise bird lapel pin/tie tac
30's-40's Navajo Silver and turquoise bird lapel pin/tie tac 3" tall x 2.5" wide, no issues. High quality hand chiseled piece. 14 grams.All precious metals are tested and guaranteed, any Native American jewelry referred to as Silver or Sterling is guaranteed to be a minimum of 90% (coin) silver and possibly higher content. Anything marked is guaranteed to be what it's marked, most bracelets are photographed on a 6" wrist (non hairy), rings photographed on the appropriate sized finger when possible. With bracelets if the measurement is not given in the description then inside circumference is shown where the metal meets the number on the the cloth tape measure.
$330.00
40's-50's Zuni Multi-stone Channel inlay brooch pin
40's-50's Zuni Multi-stone Channel inlay brooch 2 1/8" tall x 1 1/8" wide 12.1 grams.Channel inlay is a distinctive jewelry technique closely associated with Native American people of the Southwest, particularly jewelers of Zuni Pueblo. When creating channel inlay jewelry, artists set precisely cut gemstones into pre-formed silver channels. The technique allows artists to use colorful combinations of gemstones in complex and creative patterns. Channel inlay requires masterful silversmithing and lapidary skills and is utilized by Native American jewelers to create magnificent jewelry pieces recognized for their craftsmanship and beauty as art.
$250.00
1881 Victorian Sterling brooch pin
1881 Victorian Sterling brooch 1.75" x 1 3/8" 6.2 grams with no issues.
$125.00
David Andersen Norway Sterling Enamel MCM Abstract pin
David Andersen Norway Sterling Enamel MCM Abstract pin 1 5/8" x 1.25" 17.2 grams with no damage to enamel.
$350.00
Vintage Bell Trading post sterling roadrunner brooch pin
Vintage Bell Trading post sterling roadrunner brooch. Established in the 1930s in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Bell Trading Post was primarily known for its manufactured southwestern style jewelry that was assembled and decorated by Native Americans. These souvenir jewelry pieces were sold to tourists at their store on Rt. 66 and other tourist shops across the Southwest. The company's name changed to Sunbell Corporation in 1969, and it ceased operations in the late 1980s.
$40.00
Rebecca Collins Cast Oxidized sterling silver angel pin
Rebecca Collins Cast Oxidized sterling silver angel pin 29.8 grams 2" from toe to wing, the world renowned Dallas Texas artist that created this is now retired and no longer creating jewelry. Rebecca Collins, internationally known jewelry designer, is a native Texan and Phi Beta Kappa SMU graduate who started out as high school teacher. In 1975, Rebecca took a silversmithing class, where she discovered her passion for creating wearable works of art. Before she designed jewelry, she was an artist, and her paintings are now highly collectible. Rebecca Collins travels the world in search of materials for her jewelry, buying gemstones and antiquities from thousands of sources. Rebecca's designs are each singular and unique: as in nature, no two items are ever exactly alike. When she started designing jewelry, she discovered her fascination with connections between unrelated objects, which lies at the heart of her distinctive designs. Fans admire her artistic combination of contrasting materials such as faceted aquamarine with fossils, jade with vegetable "Off White", or two-thousand year old Roman glass....... her "quirky" combinations create her signature look. Her favorite artists for inspiration are Gustav Klimt and Henri Matisse. anderas
$135.00
Atique Skonvirke 830 Silver Arts and crafts coral brooch pin
Atique Skonvirke 830 Silver Arts and crafts coral brooch. First quarter of 20th century Scandinavian Arts and Crafts silver brooch 3" x 2 1/8 x 9.4 grams with no issues.
$350.00
Antique Scottish Citrine/Agate/Sterling Pin/pendant s
Antique Scottish Citrine/Agate/Sterling pendant brooch 2 3/8" 32 grams, amazing<br>condition with no wear to stones, hand engraved piece from the 19th century<br>functional as a pendant or a brooch. Unmarked tested sterling.
$510.00
c1900 James Aitchison Scottish Sterling Enamel Pin Dinna Forget with citrine/ame
c1900 James Aitchison Scottish Sterling Enamel Pin Dinna Forget with<br>citrine/amethyst thistles. High quality piece appears to have hallmarks on one<br>of the thistle stems, tests sterling. 1.5" wide 15.4 grams.
$205.00
c1880 Antique Miniature Hand Painted porcelain plaque brooch pin
c1880 Antique Miniature Hand Painted porcelain plaque brooch 1 7/8" tall x 2.25" wide, plaque in good condition with minor wear to plaque.
$175.00
Vintage Gold tone Benedikt New York Costume Jewelry Rhinestone brooch pin
Vintage Gold tone Benedikt New York Costume Jewelry Rhinestone brooch. 2.5" wide with no detectable damage or wear.
$85.00
Vintage Zuni silver and coral pin
Vintage Zuni silver and coral pin. 1 5/8" unmarked 6.8 grams with no issues. All precious metals are tested and guaranteed, any Native American jewelry referred to as Silver or Sterling is guaranteed to be a minimum of 90% (coin) silver and possibly higher content. Anything marked is guaranteed to be what it's marked, most bracelets are photographed on a 6" wrist (non hairy), rings photographed on the appropriate sized finger when possible. With bracelets if the measurement is not given in the description then inside circumference is shown where the metal meets the number on the the cloth tape measure.
$75.00
Vintage Fatoya Yazzie Sterling/turquoise brooch and more pin
Vintage Fatoya Yazzie Sterling/turquoise brooch and more. Selling the three brooches for one price, all sterling with no issues.
$115.00
Guglielmo Cini(1903-1979) Sterling Gemstone bee brooch pin
Guglielmo Cini(1903-1979) Sterling Gemstone bee brooch. Great looking brooch with no issues, didn't test the stone but since it's in sterling I believe it is a Swarovski Crystal in a desirable retired color. Measures 1" x 7/8" with no issues.
$110.00
Danecraft Sterling leaf brooch pin
Danecraft Sterling leaf brooch 13.5 grams, no issues.
$45.00
Vintage Zuni Sterling multi-stone inlay Lizard pin
Vintage Zuni Sterling multi-stone inlay Lizard pin 2.25" x 1 5/8" x 14.6 grams with no issues. All precious metals are tested and guaranteed, any Native American jewelry referred to as Silver or Sterling is guaranteed to be a minimum of 90% (coin) silver and possibly higher content. Anything marked is guaranteed to be what it's marked, most bracelets are photographed on a 6" wrist (non hairy), rings photographed on the appropriate sized finger when possible. With bracelets if the measurement is not given in the description then inside circumference is shown where the metal meets the number on the the cloth tape measure.
$155.00
Vintage Zuni Sterling Hummingbird shell, Coral, and turquoise pendant/pin
Vintage Zuni Sterling Hummingbird shell, Coral, and turquoise pendant/pin 2.25" x 1.75" 12.2 grams with no issues. All precious metals are tested and guaranteed, any Native American jewelry referred to as Silver or Sterling is guaranteed to be a minimum of 90% (coin) silver and possibly higher content. Anything marked is guaranteed to be what it's marked, most bracelets are photographed on a 6" wrist (non hairy), rings photographed on the appropriate sized finger when possible. With bracelets if the measurement is not given in the description then inside circumference is shown where the metal meets the number on the the cloth tape measure.
$175.00
c1920's Art deco sterling enamel pin
c1920's Art deco sterling enamel pin. Slight wear to enamel on rim, overall clean 22.3 grams 1.5" wide. anderas
$95.00
Collection Antique Chinese Jadeite, Silver, coral, pins
Collection Antique Chinese Jadeite, Silver, coral, and nephrite pins. All 19th to early 20th century, all from same estate collection. The celadon and russet Jade tiger pin is 2" x 1 1/8", that should give you a good idea of size of other pieces. All pieces with high content silver mountings. Selling the 5 pins shown.
$1,185.00
c1880's Austin Texas Fire Department Washington 1 Sterling Pin badge
c1880's Austin Fire Department Washington 1 Sterling Pin badge. Extremely rare<br>small pin badge from the last quarter of the 19th century to the very early 20th<br>century at the latest. As stated below the Washington 1 Station closed in 1916.<br>The Washington 1 was the first fire station in Austin as quoted below. This was<br>recovered by me in Austin in a bag including the letter I'm also including. I<br>purchased a large percentage of this estate from a family I know has been in the<br>same home since the 1920's. The Volunteer firefighter who wore this was a man<br>named John F Westlund (1858-1945) or there's a smaller chance it could have been<br>Lee Wesley Westlund (1891–1970) at a very young age. There's an Austin Fire<br>museum which I have not yet made it to that could likely confirm one of these.<br>Measures approx 1.25 x 5/8", marked sterling on reverse side. It has enamel<br>lettering with overall wear but is extremely rare and important.<br><br>The Central Station No. 1 wasn’t the first fire station in downtown Austin. In<br>1868 Washington Fire Company #1 was established on 6th Street. The first fire<br>engine, pulled by hand, was replaced by a steamer, which in turn was abandoned<br>when the water company changed to the Holly system in the early 1880s. The<br>engine company then was converted to a hose company.<br><br>Austin Fire Department: Volunteers to Professional Fire Fighters<br>Austin Fire Department began in the 1870´s with a very formal volunteer program.<br>The success of the volunteer organization actually delayed the need for a career<br>department until 1916. It was Austin’s businessmen and merchants who mainly<br>comprised the volunteer rosters. Many devoted their lives to the fire<br>department. In the spring of 1916, the citizens of Austin voted in support of<br>the creation of a paid, municipal fire department. Overnight, the department<br>went from more than 200 volunteers to 27 paid firefighters, working six 24 hour<br>shifts per week.<br><br>The first paid Fire Chief appointed by Austin city administrators was C.F.<br>Millett. Under Millett’s direction strict fire ordinances were passed and they<br>were effectively enforced by the dedicated volunteers. By 1874 the city council<br>establishing a fire department with a chief, assistant chief, recorder, fire<br>commissioners, and fire police. By 1880s Austin Fire Department included both<br>volunteer and paid firemen.<br><br>In June 1916, Clarence Woodward was appointed Fire Chief. The volunteer fire<br>companies disbanded and the fire department renumbered its fire stations and<br>renamed its apparatus which is still in effect today.<br><br>Washington #1 closed its station<br>Austin Hook and Ladder #1 became Truck Co. 1, Engine 1<br>Colorado #2 became Hose 1 at Central Fire Station 1<br>Protection #3 became Engine 2 at Station 2, and Truck 2 was created<br>East Austin #4 became Engine 5 at Station 5<br>South Austin #5 became Engine 6 at Station 6<br>North Austin #6 became Engine 3 at Station 3<br>West Austin #7 became Engine 4 at Station 4<br>Tenth Ward #8 became Engine 7 at Station 7<br>And Rescue #9 became Engine 8 at Station 8
$2,475.00
Mid Century sterling and amber brooch pin
Mid Century sterling and amber brooch. Nice pin with sterling and natural amber<br>about 50-60 years old. 12.2 grams 2 1/8" wide.
$95.00
Large vintage Peruvian modernist sterling pendant/brooch pin
Large vintage Peruvian modernist sterling pendant/brooch. 2" x 2 5/8"
$90.00
Vintage Sterling Pins and pendants
Vintage Sterling Pins and pendants.. Selling all shown from about the mid 20th century with no damage or issues, Woman with Alpaca brooch is 2" wide.
$110.00
Vintage Sterling Pins and stickpin
Vintage Sterling Pins and stickpin. Selling all three from about the mid 20th century with no damage or issues, Bird is 2.75" tall. All sterling 15 grams total.
$50.00
Antique Art Nouveau Sterling and Coral pendant/brooch pin
Antique Art Nouveau Sterling and Coral pendant/brooch. 2 3/8" x 1 7/8" x 17.1 grams with no issues. Hallmarked as shown, very high quality piece.
$250.00
Retro Modernist Sterling Rhodochrosite/jade pin
Retro Modernist Sterling Rhodochrosite/jade pin 5" x 1.25" x 27.7 grams with no issues.
$165.00
3 Dave Pino Navajo Sterling Malachite/Onyx pendants
3 Dave Pino Navajo Sterling Malachite/Onyx pendants. Buying the three pendants shown, two largest 2 7/8" tall x 1.75" wide, 89.2 grams total weight.
$250.00
Handmade Retro Artisan Sterling copper - Mother of pearl and obsidian pin
Handmade Retro Artisan Sterling copper - Mother of pearl and obsidian pin 3" x 1<br>3/8" x 8.8 grams<br><br>All precious metals are tested and guaranteed, any Native American jewelry<br>referred to as Silver or Sterling is guaranteed to be a minimum of 90% (coin)<br>silver and possibly higher content. Anything marked is guaranteed to be what<br>it's marked, most bracelets are photographed on a 6" wrist (non hairy), rings<br>photographed on the appropriate sized finger when possible. With bracelets if<br>the measurement is not given in the description then inside circumference is<br>shown where the metal meets the number on the the cloth tape measure.<br><br>anderas
$85.00
Large Vintage AIS Sterling/Turquoise Asian style pendant/brooch pin
Large Vintage AIS Sterling/Turquoise Asian style pendant/brooch. Turquoise frog and bottom section, really cool marked and tested sterling. 4.75" long 84 grams.
$195.00
Mid Century Margot De Taxco Sterling silver pin
Mid Century Margot De Taxco Sterling silver pin. No damage or significant wear,<br>1.5" x 1.75" x 8.9 grams. -Anderas-<br><br>Margot Van Voorhies was born in 1896 in San Francisco, California. By the time<br>she left her native country for good, she had survived the death of her father<br>in 1903, the San Francisco Earthquake in 1906, the loss of her mother at the<br>hands of a er in 1931 and the end of her first marriage in 1936.<br><br>Fortunately, a Mexican vacation changed the life of Margot Van Voorhies in ways<br>she could never have imagined. In 1937, forty-one-year-old divorcée Margot Van<br>Voorhies left San Francisco on a trip to Mexico City. Fate threw her into the<br>path of Don Antonio Castillo, who took her to Taxco, a Mexican hotbed for the<br>design, crafting, and production of silver objects, in particular jewelry and<br>housewares.<br><br>Soon, Castillo would become Margot’s second husband. At the time, Castillo was<br>working for William Spratling, a pioneer in Mexican silversmithing. He brought<br>Margot into the business as a designer, helping her to transform her paper<br>creations into three-dimensional forms in silver. In 1939, the pair, along with<br>other members of Castillo’s family, opened shop as Los Castillo Taller [Taller<br>is Spanish for “Workshop”], with Margot as the top designer.<br><br>After ten years, the marriage between Castillo and Van Voorhies dissolved, as<br>did their professional association. Margot went on to open her own shop in 1948,<br>taking the name Margot de Taxco, by which she is best known today. Seven years<br>later, enamel was added to many of her pieces, and this is where Margot found<br>her legacy.<br><br>At the peak of her career, Margot, who designed each piece herself, had two<br>dozen silversmiths and a dozen enamellists in her employ to execute her vision.<br>The men performed the duties as silversmiths; the women did the enamel work,<br>using tiny brushes to bring the watercolor drawings to life. To ensure the<br>accurate rendering of her jewelry designs, she compiled a book of instructions<br>and drawings, detailing the construction and finishing of each. Margot attracted<br>talented craftsmen who later went on to cement their own reputations, such as<br>Sigi Pineda, Miguel Melendez, and Melecio Rodriguez.<br><br>Many contemporary Hollywood celebrities were clients of Margot, including John<br>Wayne and Lana Turner, who visited her shop every year.<br><br>Tragedy struck in the form of a fire in 1960. Forced to move her studio, she<br>never again regained her prior success, and the business folded in 1974. Margot<br>granted several of the silversmiths in her employ permission to use her molds to<br>create pieces on their own, in return for debt forgiveness. As a result, many of<br>Margot’s pieces were re-created by silversmiths such as Jaimie Quiroz and<br>Geronimo Fuentes, bearing their hallmark rather than hers.<br><br>Margot passed away in 1985. But her talent as a designer and her influence as an<br>artist have continued to gain recognition since the time of her death.<br><br>Margot’s shop produced some repousse silver (a technique where a raised or<br>relief design is hammered in from the reverse side of the piece). But she is<br>best known for her champlevé enamel work. Champlevé is created by carving,<br>etching, striking, or casting troughs or cells into the surface of a piece and<br>filling it with vitreous enamel. In Margot’s jewelry, the designs were<br>die-struck, a process that was detailed and critical to the final product.<br><br>Margot produced many suites that included necklaces, brooches, bracelets, and<br>earrings, as well as convertible jewelry. Margot de Taxco jewelry is recognized<br>for its elegance, femininity, and variety.<br><br>There were many areas of influence that can be found in Margot’s work. Her fish<br>and wave motifs celebrated her love of Japanese art. The ornate swirls and<br>floral motifs were reminiscent of the Art Nouveau style. Mischievous<br>pre-Columbian figures were a recurring theme. Art Deco style ballerinas struck<br>graceful poses. Margot was also taken with Egyptian motifs and Mexican crafts.<br><br>Margot de Taxco pieces are distinguished by the stamp that includes her name,<br>Eagle 16 (or Eagle 1, for her earlier works), along with a production number.<br>Issued by the government, the eagle stamp was a way to identify th
$145.00
Vintage Mexican Saltillo Sterling Brooch and other pin
Vintage Mexican Saltillo Sterling Brooch and other. Selling the two large brooches, one doubling as a pendant. Both sterling, one with faded 925 mark, other marked under loop for pendant. Largest 2 3/8" wide 30.9 grams total.
$85.00
Guglielmo Cini(1903-1979) 14k Gold Fly Tie tac/pin
Guglielmo Cini(1903-1979) 14k Gold Fly Tie tac/pin. Marked and tested 14k gold, also marked Cini. 9/16" long. no issues, likely never used. The back is plated, pin is 14k Cini.
$135.00
Vintage Chinese 14k gold, Coral, Diamond, and Saphire Fisherman pendant/pin
Vintage Chinese 14k gold, Coral, Diamond, and Sapphire Fisherman brooch. Has<br>loops at the top to wear as an adjustable height pendant, pin on back to wear as<br>a pin. Everything about it is great, circa mid 20th century, estate fresh with<br>no issues whatsoever. Approx 3 3/8" or 88mm tall x 1.5" or 38mm wide x 36.2<br>grams. Marked and tested 14k gold.
$3,025.00
Sterling silver Save the Children brooch pin
Sterling silver Save the Children brooch 1 9/16" wide and tall 8.7 grams.
$30.00
1940's Hobe Sterling Modernist brooch with flowers pin
1940's Hobe Sterling Modernist brooch with flowers 1 13/16" wide with no damage<br>13.9 grams.<br><br>Hobé Cie was founded in 1887 by goldsmith Jacques Hobé, but when costume-jewelry<br>collectors think of Hobé, they picture the tasselled and beaded necklaces made<br>by Jacques’ son, William, who established an American offshoot of the company in<br>1927. That put Hobé at the beginning of the American costume-jewelry boom<br>between the two world wars.<br><br>In fact, some scholars believe that Hobé actually had a hand in the phrase<br>“costume jewelry” itself. After the younger Hobé landed in New York, but before<br>he started his company, one of the his first assignments was to make costumes<br>and jewelry for the "Ziegfeld Follies." According to some historians, Florenz<br>Ziegfeld described the jewelry that accompanied Hobé’s costumes as costume<br>jewelry.<br><br>Hobé’s showbiz origins served the company well. By the 1940s and ’50s, Hollywood<br>stars such as Bette Davis and Ava Gardner were wearing Hobé. Especially prized<br>today are the floral pins of that era, which featured tight clusters of vermeil<br>petals. Earlier Hobé pieces that remain popular with collectors include<br>filigreed bracelets and pins, some of which featured Victorian-style portraits<br>or Japanese netsuke-like figures as focal points.
$185.00
Vintage Siam Sterling Silver brooch pin
Vintage Siam Sterling Silver brooch. 2" tall with no damage. 10.5 grams.
$35.00
Vintage Sterling Bird and pinecone brooch pin
Vintage Sterling Bird and pinecone brooch 2.25" wide 17 grams.
$40.00
Sterling WW2 USMC United States Marine Core Hat pin
Sterling WW2 USMC United States Marine Core Hat pin 9.7 grams 1 3/8" tall.
$250.00
Vintage Navajo Sterling and stone pendant/pin
Vintage Navajo Sterling and stone pendant/pin 1 7/8" x 1 5/8" 17.9 grams with no issues. I'm not sure what stone this is. All precious metals are tested and guaranteed, any Native American jewelry referred to as Silver or Sterling is guaranteed to be a minimum of 90% (coin) silver and possibly higher content.
$85.00
Sterling Zealandia handmade pin
Sterling Zealandia handmade pin. Older piece from the 80's or 90's, in my<br>opinion better quality than recent work. 2.5" X 1.5" x 23.5 grams with no<br>issues.
$300.00
Circa 1935-1948 Matilde Poulat Repousse Sterling Black Cat's Eye pin
Circa 1935-1948 Matilde Poulat Repousse Sterling Black Cat's Eye pin. Great pin<br>with no issues 1.75" 18.7 grams. -Anderas-<br><br>MAT-MATILDE POULAT & RICARDO SALAS JEWELRY<br>Matl is the mark that appears on some of the most beautiful and unique jewelry<br>in Mexico.<br>Matilde Eugenia Poulat introduced MATL in 1934 and, since her death in 1960, her<br>designs and techniques have been carried on by her nephew, Ricardo Salas. For<br>sr. Salas, who can recite poetry in the language of the Aztecs, the mark matl,<br>has greater meaning in its reference to the Nahuatl or Aztec word for water,<br>atl.<br><br>As a young woman, Matilde Poulat studied painting at the prestigious San Carlos<br>academy of fine arts in Mexico city, she went on to teach painting classes at an<br>art school until her interest turned exclusively to silver. Matilde Poulat´s<br>designs for jewelry and figures were part of the new cultural vision among<br>Mexico’s intellectuals after the revolution in 1920s, artists were searching for<br>Mexican aesthetic, rejection European subjects in favor of the art of the<br>pre-conquest Indians and of the Mexican pueblos. Sra. Poulat found inspiration<br>in the mextec gold jewelry discovered in 1932 at Monte Alban. Her choice of<br>motifs the dove, flowers, and tiny bells are reminiscent of the whimsical<br>subjects of contemporary Mexican folk art.<br><br>Matilde Poulat received international recognition for her jewelry when she was<br>asked in 1941 to participate in an exhibit of Latin American silver at the pan<br>American union in Washington, D.C. as a result of increasing demand for matl<br>silver during world war ii , the number of silversmiths in the taller increased<br>to thirty-three. In 1950, Srta. Poulat and her nephew opened a showroom on the<br>first floor of her home, where she also had the workshop. Ricardo Salas recalls<br>that they made three thousand types of silver jewelry and one hundred different<br>pieces.<br><br>Ricardo Salas worked closely with his aunt from the time he was eleven years of<br>age. He says she recognized his artistic talent when she saw him do a play with<br>puppets he had made himself. Sr. Salas was sent to the San Carlos academy, where<br>he received the premio Diego Rivera. As a youth, he learned the techniques of<br>the silversmith and perfected the carving of "Off White", coral, turquoise, and<br>other stones used in the jewelry and figurines. From sr. Salas perspective, he<br>and his aunt collaborated so closely as designers, that there really cannot be a<br>comparison of their work.<br><br>In 1955, William Spratling wrote of Matilde Poulat: “she has continued to<br>produce some of the most charming native jewelry in Mexico, intensely her own.<br>Her jewelry has the same charm and delightful surface and colorful quality of<br>the old lacquer work of Uruapan. Spratling`s admiration for matl silver reflects<br>his recognition of their shared appreciation for Mexican native art. This mutual<br>inspiration led each of the two artists in different directions within the same<br>medium. The exuberance of matl silver resembles the interiors of the churches in<br>Puebla, like the chapel of Santa Maria Tonantzintla, where Indians covered the<br>interior of the dome with polychromed and gilded angels. In matl silver, the<br>introduction of color is accomplished with bits of coral, turquoise, and<br>amethyst quartz. The surfaces are decorated with applied wire and elaborated<br>with embossing and repousse of astounding complexity (pl.XXIII-1, XXIII-10).<br>Matilde Poulat and Ricardo Salas have been successful in incorporating the<br>artistic language of the Mixtecs into jewelry and silver figures with<br>imagination, drama, and with a style that is completely personal.
$280.00
Morris Laahte Zuni Silver Multi-Stone Channel inlay pendant/pin
Morris Laahte Zuni Silver Multi-Stone Channel inlay pendant/pin 2" wide 21.4 grams with no issues. All precious metals are tested and guaranteed, any Native American jewelry referred to as Silver or Sterling is guaranteed to be a minimum of 90% (coin) silver and possibly higher content. Anything marked is guaranteed to be what it's marked, most bracelets are photographed on a 6" wrist (non hairy), rings photographed on the appropriate sized finger when possible. With bracelets if the measurement is not given in the description then inside circumference is shown where the metal meets the number on the the cloth tape measure.
$230.00
John Bryan (1897-1982) MCM Sterling Enamel Pin
John Bryan (1897-1982) MCM Sterling Enamel Pin. Great design, no damage or detectable wear. 1 5/8" wide 10.9 grams John William Bryan was born in 1897 in North Carolina. He was a journalist and teacher in New York for a time, but returned to Asheville, North Carolina in the 1950's to start jewelry crafting. It is not understood how he moved from one profession to the next. His jewelry was mostly abstract in design, as was most of the other hand crafted jewelry of the time. He worked in sterling silver and enamel, as far as is known. His work was sold mostly in the Southern Highlands Handicraft Guild located in Asheville, North Carolina, which had been established in the 1930's to educate the region and arts community on the importance of craft and its ability to impact the local creative economy. John Bryan died in 1982 in North Carolina.
$50.00
Victorian 18k Rose gold High Relief Lava Cameo brooch pin
Victorian 18k Rose gold High Relief Lava Cameo brooch. 19th century, unmarked<br>but tested and guaranteed solid 18k gold. 2" tall x 1.75" wide with no issues.
$1,160.00
Victorian 14k rose gold/pearl mounted Hardstone cameo brooch pin
Victorian 14k rose gold/pearl mounted Hardstone cameo brooch. 19th century<br>carved hardstone cameo with no issues, frame tested and guaranteed solid 14k<br>gold, unmarked. 1.75" tall x 1.45" wide. 19.4 grams.
$1,365.00
Antique Egyptian Revival Silver filigree carved Scarab pin
Antique Egyptian Revival Silver filigree carved Scarab pin. Unmarked tested at<br>least 80% silver. 1 5/8" wide, high quality filigree work, kind of a janky catch<br>that should do the job. 13.4 grams.
$65.00
retired James Avery 14k Cross with Crown Tie Tac/Lapel pin
retired James Avery 14k Cross with Crown Tie Tac/Lapel pin. The tie tac is 14k<br>gold James Avery and extremely rare in solid gold, the back of course is plated<br>as they always are.
$255.00
Huge Mid Century Mexican Sterling Silver Brooch with turquoise pin
Huge Mid Century Mexican Sterling Silver Brooch with turquoise. Marked silver, tests sterling. 54.8 grams, 4 7/8" wide in good condition with the slightest wear on tips.
$150.00
Guglielmo Cini(1903-1979) Sterling Gemstone bee brooch n pin
Guglielmo Cini(1903-1979) Sterling Gemstone bee brooch. Great looking brooch<br>with no issues, didn't test the stone but since it's in sterling I believe it is<br>a Swarovski Crystal in a desirable retired color. Measures 1" x 7/8" with no<br>issues.
$125.00
Sterling Marcasite Pendant and brooch pin
Sterling Marcasite Pendant and brooch. Both from the same estate, no damage or<br>issues.
$50.00
Vintage Modernism Givenchy and Lee Wolfe high end gold tone pins
Vintage Modernism Givenchy and Lee Wolfe high end gold tone pins. 3" and 3.5" tall with no wear or scratches, both from the same estate, both great quality and designs. Selling both for one price.
$175.00
Antique Chinese Qing Jade Buttons/Ornaments Hair pin Lot
Antique Chinese Qing Jade Buttons/Ornaments Hair pin Lot. Selling the lot, all<br>18th/19th century largest 4.5", no apparent damage, but possibly some small<br>nicks on edges.<br>chinadrawer
$960.00
Vintage Large Sterling tiger brooch pin
Vintage Large Sterling tiger brooch 22.2 grams 2 3/8" wide, no damage.
$80.00
c1940's Mexican Modernist sterling silver pin with amethyst
c1940's Mexican Modernist sterling silver pin with amethyst. 1.25" x 2 7/8" x 32.7 grams, very substantial with no issues.
$95.00
Retro EFS Sterling silver articulating Children brooch pin
Retro EFS Sterling silver articulating Children brooch 1 7/8" tall and wide 10.6<br>grams with no issues.
$55.00
Sterling Silver Turquoise Cowboy hat pin by Pin Roycroft Renaissance Artisan Alb
Sterling Silver Turquoise Cowboy hat pin by Pin Roycroft Renaissance Artisan<br>Alburn Sleeper (1937-2021)<br>Very large, cool and well made 39.5 grams from the early seventies. 3" tall x<br>2.25" wide. This was acquired directly from the estate of Alburn Sleeper, it was<br>one of his earlier pieces, he used to wear it on a Stetson hat.<br><br>As a teenager, Mr. Sleeper learned metalwork from Walter U. Jennings, an<br>original Roycrofter who had worked with Elbert Hubbard as a coppersmith,<br>silversmith and bookbinder.
$455.00
Vintage Sterling Filigree Pendant/brooches pin
Vintage Sterling Filigree Pendant/brooches. Selling the three all three test<br>sterling, butterfly marked 925. 2.25" wide flower is also a pendant. All three<br>vintage estate pieces from the first half of the 20th century. 23 grams total<br>weight.
$85.00
Modernist 14k Tiffany Dachshund Weiner dog pin
Modernist 14k Tiffany Dachshund Weiner dog pin. Rare vintage item approximately<br>40-50 years old with no issues. 2" wide x 7/8" tall x 5.6 grams. Guaranteed<br>authentic designed and retailed by Tiffany in the late 70's to early 80's.
$1,710.00
Georg Jensen Sterling Silver Art Deco Flower Pin
Georg Jensen Sterling Silver Art Deco Flower Pin. Selling one with another available if you change the qty. 1 3/16" x 1 5/8" 11.5 grams in great vintage condition with no significant issues.
$145.00
Vintage Sterling Whistle brooch in form of Chinese vase pin
Vintage Sterling Whistle brooch in form of Chinese vase. Gold plated sterling,<br>at first I thought it was to hold a perfumed sponge or something like that but<br>it whistles quite well. 1.5" tall 10.6 grams.
$40.00
1974 CR Sousea Native American Sterling turtle pin
1974 CR Sousea Native American Sterling turtle pin 1 3/8" x 7/8" x 5.6 grams, no issues. All precious metals are tested and guaranteed, any Native American jewelry referred to as Silver or Sterling is guaranteed to be a minimum of 90% (coin) silver and possibly higher content. Anything marked is guaranteed to be what it's marked, most bracelets are photographed on a 6" wrist (non hairy), rings photographed on the appropriate sized finger when possible. With bracelets if the measurement is not given in the description then inside circumference is shown where the metal meets the number on the the cloth tape measure.
$95.00