Featured Vintage Bling Costume Jewelry

Discussion in 'Jewelry' started by drg642, Nov 22, 2021.

  1. drg642

    drg642 Well-Known Member

    Picked these up recently, can't resist the vintage showy rhinestone pieces. All are unsigned, does anyone recognize the maker for any of them? Thanks for looking, please no heroic research efforts, just if you happen to recognize something.
    I would like confirmation that the stone in #4 is correctly called a Sabrina stone. I searched and could not find another this large.
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  2. Aznathalie

    Aznathalie Well-Known Member

    Number 4 There is an inscription Western Germany.
     
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  3. drg642

    drg642 Well-Known Member

    It certainly does, thank you.
    Now how did I miss that?
     
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  4. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    The 'boomerang' pin attachment is often seen in the 1950s.

    The 'Western Germany' mark could refer to the boomerang pin only. The front could have been made somewhere else, although Germany and Czechoslovakia are strong contenders imo.
    Refugees from the Czech jewellery centre of Gablonz were settled in W. Germany in a new town called 'Neugablonz', where they continued to make jewellery.
     
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  5. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    Really like #5, unusual shape & color mix. The #6 earrings. I always find these riotous mix of colors jarring, so this is strictly my take: they're so ugly they have to be designer.. Also, they look well made.
     
  6. drg642

    drg642 Well-Known Member

    Thanks AJ, Bronwen.
    The earrings are very well made, lots of sparkle, interesting multicolor stones, I also thought surely some designer.
    I like them for the same reason Bronwen does not like them! That's what makes life interesting.
     
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  7. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    I love the earrings, but I have a thing for Kuba/Cuba stones.
     
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  8. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    I'd wear those earrings in a heartbeat.
     
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  9. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    I have many pairs of clip on earrings from when my ears weren't pierced & I was envying the earrings of those whose were. They were all from a designer I would see at crafts shows. Some of them - the ones featuring dried baby piranhas for instance, one of my favorites - would not be to everyone's taste.
     
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  10. Marie Forjan

    Marie Forjan Well-Known Member

    Love them all! If I came across them I would buy them in a heartbeat :)
     
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