Featured Another hatpin with an unbelievable sold price

This was also in the lot of hatpins I bought. It's a pretty art nouveau piece. I managed to find one more that sold 2 years ago for $497!

I don't believe for one minute that this is worth that kind of money. But I do get excited when I see things like that.

Any info on it is appreciated. Thanks!

 

It is gorgeous!

 

Nice Art Nouveau hat pin. The one you found that had sold must have been gold, this looks like costume, so you are right that it wouldn’t go that high. But people love vintage Art Nouveau pieces

 

I think it's the same one I found.

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/fabulous-antique-art-nouveau-hatpin-1834610580

 

No, it was sold as brass. That's why I was so surprised.

 

OH MY, someone must have wanted that bad

 

wow that does seem high, but someone was willing! how exciting to have found one in a lot

 

Brass & Glass + Aphonse Mucha = its happening

Very famous illustrator

 

Try to find out which Mucha she's based on, or even it's another artist. The seller could be wrong...

I will upload 2 comparable sterling pieces later - I can't remember the name of the artist...

 

Walter Kerr - The second faces left, is half the size and a chatelaine. This one's pretty famous, and some do have stratospheric asking prices, but the large one is not that rare.

 

Antique Sterling Top Art Nouveau Ladies William Kerr Hat Pin
$149 USD SOLD

Not the same

SOMEbody knows what's special about it, but you'd think it'd be telegraphed in the description.

Another artist: Unger

 

Based on Alphonse Mucha "Princesse lointaine"


https://www.fine-arts-museum.be/fr/...ha-et-adolphe-truffier-la-princesse-lointaine

The sketch was for a theatre play with Sarah Bernhardt

 

I'm on a hatpins collectors site (you must be accepted to have access...)
You'd be surprised by the price these fellows are ready to pay to have some pieces...
Kewpie porcelain hatpin holder going for 1500$

 

I saw one of those in my search. I put it on my "watch for this" list.

 

Btw, that Mucha reference in a posted link is the broken part that the poster spoke of. Somehow, that title and a different pin were attached to the wrong picture.

 

THANK YOU @kyratango! You are SOMEbody!

What makes this one such a sleeper?

Sarah Bernhardt doesn't look nearly as ecstatic as the pin lady!