Featured Can you help with several pieces of jewelry please?

The first is a brooch appears to be older could be wrong not a jewelry expert but have searched alot. The brooch is 1 3/4 across and heavy with red stones around.

The bracelet has no marks never seen a clasp like this maybe the notch broke off? It measures 7.5" long.

The rhinestone earrings no marks but the square stones are huge almost 3/4" the earrings are about 1.5 inches across. They are hard to measure with a ruler sorry.

Now the cat brooch is marked just the word SILVER it is 1.5" long and 3/4" long.

The cat earrings are marked SILVER thinking maybe same maker as brooch. They are 1" long and 3/4"

 

Hm. POdzim means Autumn, so I think some kind of award for some sporting thing in 1922. The bracelet clasp isn't broken, those are just fiddly. Jade and maybe silver. Very nice. 1920s.

The clip earrings are probably 1980s, I'd buy them.

Your cats: again, 1980s, several designers did stuff like these. The earrings are leopards. Buy a Sunshine cloth and give all of this stuff a very gentle clean, it will pop.

Or send it to me.

 

The clasp is older , and it slides open using your thumbnail.
It looks like gold , so I'd take a high power glass to the rest of the bracelet looking for marks.

 

You seeing gold? I see silver.

 

Thanks both of you I dont think it is silver or gold I think it maybe pot metal because one spot looks like it could be copper. Would they have put jade in something like pot metal? I know it isnt plastic. I have taken a loop to it and found no marks

 

this is what I was saying

 

The first piece seems to be a medallion from an annual industrial exposition. Looks like you have a deluxe version. (I wonder if those are garnets.)

Try this (hopefully translated) link:
http://translate.google.ca/translat...lez/p-v-v-podzim-1922-3523-18741/&prev=search

And this entirely untranslated (I leave that to you) link:
http://xaviercortes.blogspot.cz/2011/12/prazske-vzorkove-veletrhy-pvv-fira-de.html
(from the comments after the first link)


Is there a mark stamped on the pin itself?

 

Aren't the green glass links and centers what is referred to as Peking glass?
And the white looks like what they call camphor glass.
My opinion only.

 

Given that the language is Czech, they may well be Gablonz garnets. They do look it.

Pekin and camphor is a thought.

 

ok the cat pin and the big cat is Vintage Laurel Burch I found some I never thought of a leopard that helped. thanks for the link moreotherstuff there is a mark on the pin itself but my loop is not strong enough I will take it to my jeweler to see what he says and to check stones.

 

is there a way to tell if the bracelet is pekin or camphor glass

 

The green glass links may not be pekin, but here are images for camphor glass - https://www.google.com/search?q=cam...v&sa=X&ei=QllBVfDHNIafsAXeyICgAQ&ved=0CEMQsAQ

 

the clasp ?

 

thanks Messilane it does look like camphor glass

 

could the green be camphor glass also?

 

I really am not sure. When I Google "green camphor glass, this is what came up - please note that they don't look as green as yours, but that could be lighting or something -
https://www.google.com/search?q=gre...v&sa=X&ei=vHBBVc_kAdGNyASQ3IGgCw&ved=0CDIQsAQ

 

The bracelet is Czech too, most likely. Green camphor glass doesn't look like that; it's more likely to be a jade lookalike. It's Art Deco as all get-out, and a real one would have been white gold or platinum, quartz and jade.

 

Yup, totally agree on the bracelet in terms of age.

If those are Burch, they ought to be marked.

 

ownedbybear I am sorry but can you explain what you are talking about Burch?

 

Sure. If it's a Laurel Burch piece, there ought to be a signature of some sort on it. Have a look down this page: http://www.illusionjewels.com/costumejewelrymarksb.html

There's quite a few wannabee pieces out there. Yours are nice, and will sell anyhow.