I have wanted an Art nouveau insect jewelry for a long time now. I have found this bar pin online, while being sick and bored at home. It was listed as being from the fifties, but it is definitely older (I think it’s from the first decades of the twentieth century). It has a hallmark, but I can’t deciphered it right now, with my aching head and teary eyes and all. It’s in perfect condition and the rhinestones catch the light in a very pretty way.
Linking up with Vintage Bliss Tuesdays and Vintage Charm parties.
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This is lovely! Congrats on fulfilling a wishlist item. I wonder if it is old enough for you to legitimately call the rhinestones pastes?
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I was also wondering about that, but I cannot find online any clear explanation about the difference between rhinestones and paste. So, … I don’t know.
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I know what you mean. I’ve read about pastes vs rhinestones as well and it’s all pretty vague. One thing I read, be it true or not, is that pastes boil down to basically being older. Plus there are manufacturing differences but I don’t feel I could tell. 🙂 Did you read this one?http://www.antique-jewelry-investor.com/history-of-rhinestones.html
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Aha, thank you for the link, I didn’t read this one. From reading it, it seams paste should be more opaque? And often foil backed (which is not the case for my brooch, the stones are open backed).
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Glad I could help! Too bad you cant call them pastes but open backed sounds lovely so probably not a real loss.
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It is always so fun to find something from you “wish list”. Thank you for sharing at Vintage Charm and I hope we will see you back there this wwk..
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It’s so beautiful (is that a strange thing to say about a fly?!) I love it’s pink eyes 🙂
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I was think it’s a very pretty fly :).
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