1940's Vintage Enameled Blue Flower & Green Leaves Pin
Beautiful 1940's vintage pot metal flower is enameled green & dark blue. Set with unfoiled, openbacked sapphire-blue glass stones, and tiny aqua-colored rhinestones. Very negligible enamel loss. 3". - $65
Vintage 1940's Enameled Daffodil Flower Brooch
This is such a nice piece! 1940's enameled daffodils floral brooch is unsigned though has a special look about it. This has gold-plated setting and superb enameling. Set with clear rhinestones for the flower centers, and black glass stones in the center. 2 7/8". Condition is excellent.View of back - $120
Enameled Pink Flower & Green Leaves Pin
Lovely vintage potmetal and enameled flower. Rose-colored petals are actually depressions, the leaves are enameled teardrop-shaped stones. Large pink center glass stone, tiny crystal accents. 2 3/8". - $30
Staret Hand Holding a Floral Bouquet
Rare, hard-to-find signed original STARET pin of a hand holding a floral bouquet. Enameled potmetal with faceted large, openbacked glass stones and smaller rhinestone crystals. Measures slightly over 3" across. There is a slight scrape to the enameling on the lady's fingers, but condition otherwise is excellent. The mark is stamped into the metal. - $1250
Potmetal & Enamel Parrot Pin
Vintage 1940's parrot bird pin in colorfully enameled potmetal. A green rhinestone for his eye is a replacement stone. Condition is excellent overall. Measures approximately 2". - $45
1940's Equestrian Theme Fur Clip
This unique double-pronged fur clip, circa 1940's, could also be worn as a brooch, and depicts a horseman or horsewoman riding to the hounds, jumping over a fence (or perhaps competing in a steeplechase?). Rhodium plate over base metal with enameling and pink rhinestone. Unmarked, maker unknown. Measures just under 2" across; excellent condition apart from a small ding in the enameling. - $125
Enameled Blackamoor Warrior Pin
Extraordinary, beautifully made blackamoor warrior pin, circa 1940's. Copper-plated potmetal with colorful enameling and rhinestones. The shield is covered with teensy blue crystals, and clear stones are in the collar. Such attention to detail !! -- down to the little hoop earring in his ear. 3 3/4" height; excellent condition. - $245
Coro Geissman Style Enameled Owl Pin Brooch
Unsigned 1940's pot metal and enamel screech owl brooch has only slight variations to the patent design by Geissman for Coro, referenced in Brunialti's book "American Costume Jewelry. Wings are enameled in autumn colors of rust, brown, yellow, mint green. The body and head are set with pave-set clear rhinestones, and the head is attached so that it can turn this way or that. Condition is excellent with only a few inconspicuous spots of enamel loss. - $260
1940's Potmetal & Enamel Lion Pin
Whimsical lion pin, circa 1940's, of enameled potmetal. 2 3/4" across. Some small fleabite pits in the metal. C-clasp pinback. - $30
Enameled 1940's Pin ~ Flower Cart Girl
Unsigned enameled figural pin is beautifully made and features a girl or woman pushing a flower cart. Clear rhinestone accents are set in her skirt, in the flower cart wheel and in the center of the flowers. Silvertone base metal, with riveted construction. Measures just under 2" across. This may be a Coro piece -- it has that look to it. She even has little white polka dots on her dress -- such is the attention to detail. Very nice condition apart from barely perceptible speck of enamel loss on the wheel. - $120
Vintage Enameled Garden Girl & Tulips Pin
Very hard-to-find potmetal pin, circa 1940's, features a sweet little miss tending her tulip garden. Very colorful enameling and multicolored baguettes and crystals. 2 1/2" across. Overall condition is excellent, with a few flecks of enamel loss. All stones are present and in good color. - $145
1940's Enameled Flower Cart & Donkey Pin
A superb example of 1940's figural jewelry! Flower cart with driver and donkey in harness, enameled base-metal, set with tiny crystals. The wheels actually turn. Unmarked, but clearly a designer piece such as Coro. 2 3/4" across. Enameling is in excellent condition; there is some tiny crystals missing from the flowers but I had to look very closely to spot this. Mild plating wear on the reverse. - $125
1940s Enameled Potmetal Tulips or Lilies Pin
1940's vintage brooch of mauve-pink lilies or tulips in enameled potmetal, accented with clear rhinestones. Stands 3 1/4" tall. Overall excellent condition apart from some mild spots of enamel wear. - $65
1940's Enameled Gazelle Fur Clip
This truly beautiful, well-crafted fur clip, circa 1940s, features a horned gazelle. Enameled base metal, with colors varied and subtly shaded. 2 1/8" height. Unmarked, but has a definite designer look to it. Excellent condition. - $145
1940's Coro Style Enameled Flower Clusters Brooch Beautifully made and substantial brooch is unsigned, though appears to be a Coro piece, circa 1940's, and features clusters of flowers set with clear and blue rhinestones. The flowers are rhodium-plated and riveted to a second piece incorporating the enameled leaves and stems, which is goldplated. 3 3/8" across. Condition is excellent. - $85
Coro Enameled French Apache Dancers Pin ~ Man & Woman
1940's enameled pin brooch is unmarked Coro and features a man and woman performing an Apache dance. This dance originated in the streets of Paris -- a kind of gang dance acting out a kind of passionate violence between a man and woman (sort of like Klingon courtship, I guess). More information about the Apache dance can be found at www.streetswing.com. Pin is colorfully enameled and accented with clear rhinestones. 1 3/4" x 1 3/4". Excellent condition. - $300
Vintage Enameled Marching Band Drummer Figural Pin Outstanding and hard-to-find 1940's figural pin features a marching band drummer. Enamel on base metal with clear rhinestones. Unmarked, but reminds me of the DuJay marching band figurals. 2 5/8" total height. The front of the pin is in excellent condition apart from a few fleabites to the enamel; the back looks like it may have had a goldwash at one point that has mostly worn away.
- SOLD
1940's Enameled Pin ~ Native American Indian w/ Bow & Arrow
This incredible pin brooch, circa 1940's, is beautifully crafted with much attention to detail. It depicts an Indian brave or Chief (?) shooting is bow and arrow. He wears decorated moccasins, breech cloth and feathered headdress, has war paint on his face, and stands on a grassy base. Enameling on base metal, with green crystal accents in his headdress. Unmarked but clearly designer quality. 2 3/4" height; excellent condition. View back of this item
- $160
1940s Pot Metal, Enamel & Rhinestone Uncle Sam's Hat
Great patriotic piece from the 1940s, unmarked but possibly Coro -- Uncle Sam's hat in pot metal, set with rows of clear rhinestones, alternating with rows of raised rectangles enameled in metallic red to resemble rhinestone baguettes. The hat band is enameled blue, leaving the silvertone metal of the raised stars showing through. A beautifully made piece; 1 1/4" height. Excellent condition with all stones present and sparkling (camera exaggerates the yellowish tinge). - $70
1940s Pink Moonglow Necklace & Enameled Flower Pin
Fabulous necklace and floral brooch features pink glass "moonglow" cabochons, prong set into pot metal, and accented with clear rhinestones. The flower pin also has enameled leaves and is faintly marked Des Pat Pend. These may be Coro pieces. The 16 1/2" necklace features a centerpiece and two smaller links with the pink cabs, silvertone chain and etched floral clasp. Brooch measures 3 1/4". Very good condition with mild surface wear in spots. Rhinestones are present though some are no longer as sparkling as they once were. - $50
