Its official, I've made a jewellery spreadsheet, there's too much to keep in my head so excel to the rescue. picked out 10 brooches to set up and already have two problem children, any thoughts would be much appreciated.
This faux turquoise dome is throwing up results all over the place, from deco to Egyptian revival to Zuni tribal jewellery but none sits quite right. Looks pretty old on the metal and the construction is very cool, would love to know more.
Then the wing brooch is fairly easy to date, thanks to Linn's great article, looks like Trifari, Boucher, Vendome and Jomaz were all doing this sort of thing in the late 50s. The back metal is silver plate, it's very tarnished but an exploratory clean of a couple prongs looks promising, but there's a solder mark where it looks like a signature may have come off. Shapewise it's similar to some Boucher wing brooches, but I don't think the quality is up to that... would love any more educated guesses as it's so pretty
