Help with costume jewelry?

plousia

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Wondering if I can get some help dating and identifying some costume jewelry. Hope it's ok if I put them all in one thread; didn't want to start a new thread for every single one.

We have:
  • a metal peach with very realistic pit (sadly with some paint chips)
  • a sort of stylized rose in what I believe is bakelite. Could this be called Art Deco? Might it be c. 30s?
  • a funky metal poodle with what appears to be real fur. Already found several of this guy online actually, he seems to date to c. 50s.
  • a stylish metal lady in black and gold with pearls. No idea.
  • some people who were just so cute I had to buy them. No idea about them at all. Not even sure of the material, but it is quite lightweight.
  • a mother-of-pearl brooch which I'm not sure is that old, but no idea. Bought it mainly because it looked kind of Art Deco.
  • an enamel (?) pin which I bought because it was so adorable thinking maybe 60s or 70s, but looking at the back I'm unsure it's even that old.
Other than the poodle which I found some other examples of, and the brooch which I think is probably Bakelite, I haven't any other clues. Any help is very welcome.

Apologies for poor pic quality, took them on my phone and didn't do any editing.
 

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Going to put answers here as I research and hopefully figure out all of these. The black and gold enamel lady appears to be from the 1980s; I found a few similar examples, including one which is the identical style but different colours and rhinestones instead of pearls. Her pin appears to be a replacement, attached a bit crookedly; you can see where the original pin was attached at her knee and neck. The other example I found has the longer original pin.
 
For the people: I can't find an exact example. I found several similar brooches made of two lady mimes' faces in the same style; one of the mimes has a red neck bow. None with a man and woman, or hat and curly hair like this one. A few of them were identified as celluloid, which makes sense I think. They are dated all over the place from 1930s to 70s.
 
I since found one example of the same people brooch on Worthpoint, unfortunately with no date. I think they're probably c. 1930s? The peach I believe is probably c. 1930s as well; this type of enameled pot metal jewelry was apparently common during the war and the Great Depression.
 
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