Featured Ugly brooches!

Rummaging around in my hoard of jewellery I came across these two brooches - I'd completely forgotten I even had them!
The first one looks like a particularly unappetising cabbage to me! It's quite large - I think the leaves may be celluloid and there is a pale green, slightly pearlised bead in the centre.
The second, in fairness, is not quite as ugly! I assume it's a sprig of lily of the valley and I think it must also be celluloid. I have no real idea of age for either of them - 30s/40s/50s?

 

German brooches often seem to have those angled pins on the back.
I rather like the lily of the valley. I have no idea about date but it makes me think of war time.

 

I have seen uglier brooches.
I believe those boomerang pin constructions are 1950s.

 

Ugly brooches. That is funny & I agree I have seen way worse.

 

Yes, I think you may be right - I might wear it on my dress for a D-Day anniversary event in June.

 

Thank you - I can see that "cabbagey" brooch as 50s now!

 

It’s not lily of the valley, those have bell shaped flowers held on a single arching stem. It’s one of the arum types, a zantedeschia. The wide spathe leaf and that big stamen are a clue too.

 

OK, I will back down on the lily of the valley brooch being ugly. In fact the more I look at it the nicer it seems! But, oh my - the "cabbage' brooch is still a shocker in my opinion!

 

Thank you. I knew the flowers were the wrong shape but just assumed it was a bad representation of Lof the V or possibly made by someone who had never seen the real thing!

 

I hope you aren’t referring to the Tokyo Sewerage Brooch ….
I’ve just remembered it’s a pendant so obviously not

 

Actually, I wasn't thinking of the Tokyo Sewer pendant. But it is nice to be reminded of its existence every now and then. So thank you!

 

Ditto! TAWAGOTO!

 

How could you forget the prize piece of my collection

Googled and

 

As I say often, china painters and some jewellery makers aren’t known for their grasp of botany.

 

OBB, I have no grasp what so ever of botany in any form.

 

oh no now I'm curious

 

Enjoy :

https://www.antiquers.com/threads/of-all-the-things-i’ve-seen-stamped-on-the-back-of-a-pendant.38649/#post-655509

 

Aaahhhh, the best 3 pages of a thread!!! Thank you AJ

 

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I noticed Christmasjoy and Jivvy also posted in that thread. Of course they did. I miss them.

 

I’ve just reread it sniggering like a kid at the back of a classroom. Antiquers really rose to the occasion that time. Or sunk to the depths is possibly more accurate…

I thought the same thing. Christmas Joy was as lovely as her name and Jivvy is very sadly missed, she was very entertaining and fun.