Hi all! Among a lot of interests, I'm a stick pins/hatpins collector... I just bought this 22cm long hatpin with a very interesting design. Description: Brass head measures 3/4-inch (0.9cm)wide and 7/8-inch (2.2cm) tall; total length of hatpin 8-3/4 inches 22.2cm) Impossible for the moment to find anything similar with Jugendstil/modernist/machine age/secessionist keywords I'm sure @i need help will find something And @Any Jewelry may have a clue on the style name! Not in hand yet, so I don't know if there is any mark...
It is gorgeous, kyra. You're right, it is one of the Modernist styles, possibly transitional Jugendstil to Bauhaus. I don't think Viennese Secessionist, but you never know. Jugendstil certainly had a more stylized, structural form, alongside the more general Art Nouveau swirls. The trumpet shape reminds me of a pair of very long Jugendstil tin earrings I have, but those are otherwise without decoration. These decorations, especially the slits, look Bauhaus. It is amazing that the triangular 'slit things' are open-centred, very nice detail, only just visible. I can picture this in Fritz Lang's Metropolis btw.
Ha! BAUHAUS was the term I thought without getting it to my tongue Thanks AJ! Going back to search...