This large and impressive Givenchy brooch is from the 1970s. The brooch is made of metal and glass and is all about texture. The metal rim has what appears to be a series of embossed links and then there is…
Partridge in a Pear Tree
It was during the 1950s that the craze for and mass production of Christmas jewellery first began in earnest in America. During WWII wives and sweethearts wore festive ribbons and corsages made of dried foliage, but many of these have…
Humpty Dumpty
This brooch is by the late great Kenneth Jay Lane. Kenneth Lane was one of the doyens of the costume jewellery industry. An only child born in Detroit in 1930 and by all accounts a precious and rather spoilt child. …
Leopard
This solid 9ct gold leopard brooch was made in Birmingham in the 1970s. The tree branch the leopard sits on has been delicately cast and if you look closely you can see the detail of the bark and even a…
