Featured Sterling brooch blue stones

Hello everyone, I traded one of my cheap $10 coins for this brooch and 2 other necklaces. Does anyone know who what where when this was made?

thank you
Billy Davis

 

Hi Billy!
The brooch is pretty typical of those produced in the 1940s, but I have no idea who may have made it.
I would make an effort to replace the pin, the corrosion is so severe that I don't think it could be restored enough to be usable and also the "pointy end" seems to be broken off. If you could find another brooch with the same or close length pin assembly on a junk table, you may be able to salvage the mechanism. It would require soldering the "new" pin and hinge to this one, or if you are not up to soldering, you may be able to revive the hinge on this one with a brass bristle brush, open the hinge and install a new pin.
Good Luck!

 

Seconded. It could be WWII vintage, but the style looks later. They started making costume out of silver during the war when they couldn't get brass. Some companies kept doing it for a while afterward. There's no way to know whodunnit. You can replace the pinstem with impunity.

 

Hi and thanks Sandra, I scraped the hinge and pin, looks good now