RETRO-MODERN TIFFANY BROOCH

 

This really large floral brooch was designed to be worn upon a square-shouldered jacket or fur.....I met Joan Crawford, then the Pepsi Queen, at the Russell Erskine Hotel in Huntsville....She was wearing an even larger version of this!

CD1 - Bach - The Six Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin by Lara St John

theodore b. starr pin

 

This tiny pin was my first art nouveau purchase.....today, this piece seems rather flat, however... It was made by the William B. Durgin Company for Theodore B. Starr, in 1900....Today, I prefer more three-dimensional, more sculpural, works......This one now serves as a lapel decoration....I could never bear the silly "button hole" on the lapels of suits........so, these little pins and brooches cover the things up very decoratively....