Last buckles - metal, rhinestones etc. - date advice?

Midge

Midge

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I've been busy listing the first buckles and a few other things since yesterday night. To put those I keep away I had a look into my sewing stash and found quite a few buckles there. How things accumulate... (I feel like my friend who thought she could rustle up maybe five beetle/bee/spider/butterfly brooches in her collection and found at least 20 when she looked!) Since I'm all into buckles now :), I'd appreciate your thoughts on dating these as well, as I haven't much of a clue.

First are three with rhinestones. One with clear ones, one with brown ones and fake pearls and one with chartreuse-colored stones. All flea-market or secondhand shop finds. 1950s maybe?

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Then there are some curious metal buckles, the big three-part one came from a flea-market, the other ones I was given by a friend. The big round was probably once all golden I think. These all strike me as earlier. The three-part one has an Art Nouveau-Feel to mee, the small one more Art Deco and the big round one reminds me of cut steel jewelry of the early 1900s.

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Thanks!

Karin
 
I think you are right about the rhinestones group being 50s. Certainly those aurora borealis stones. The one with pearls - might be 40s? I defer to Linn and our other jewelry experts.

I think you are right about the Deco style buckle - 20s - 30s. The 3 parter is really striking. Edwardian to Teens era , perhaps?

Hollis
 
Your buckle in the last photo set looks very much like the design on a late 60s/early 70s Lanvin pendant set that I have

Maybe Lanvin borrowed a bit

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Back

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