CHERRIES and PINEAPPLE, Trifari 1941
CORNCOB and CHERRIES, Boucher 1941
CURRANTS and PEPPERS, Boucher 1941
RASPBERRIES and TOMATO, Réja 1941
STRAWBERRIES and RADISHES, Boucher 1941
I've never actually seen a vintage 1940s fruit or vegetable brooch in person, but when I do you can bet I'll make a big commotion. Especially if I ever find those radishes! It seems that different jewelry companies favored different themes in their novelty brooches during this period - Trifari did a lot of flowers, Coro did a lot of birds, Boucher did a lot of fruit, etc. The insect-themed brooches from this period are especially interesting! Images taken from American Costume Jewelry Art & Industry, 1935-1950
11 comments:
Really fantastic--I'd be right there in the hullabaloo if I came across any of the pins above.
Thank you for posting this, I picked up an enamel and rhinestone cherry brooch in a Wisconsin thrift and had a hard time figuring out how old it was, now I'm thinking it might actually be from the '40s. It's not marked so I'm thinking it's probably a 'dime store' version of one of the above pieces.
The corncob, peppers, and radishes are my favorites! I do prefer veggies to fruits when eating, too, but there's just something wonderfully quirky about a vegetable brooch.
I love the radishes as well! I have a beet necklace from LuLuBug that I wear all the time just for it's irregularity.
wearing a radish brooch! or tomato or peppers! that is so freaking awesome!
I like the frosted Austrian glass ones better...But then again I've never seen these in person either.
yum!
Weird that you posted this as I saw this on Etsy today:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/73845961/htf-coro-radish-brooch-super-summer-fun?ref=ajax&src=favitm
Tomato, radishes and currents! Love them.
I sent a link to my list, Jewelcollect, about the book Delicious Jewels by Hemmerle reviewed in today's (5/13/11) New York Times. An artist friend responded by sending me a jpeg of her Boucher radish. Oy vey, I want, I want.
I have the radishes for sale on Ruby Lane :)
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