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What is Brooch Jewelry and Who Sells it In Boca Raton, FL?

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What is Brooch Jewelry and Who Sells it In Boca Raton, FL?

As I refined my shopping for the holidays, picking out different pieces of fine jewelry as special gifts for my family and friends, I found myself intrigued with Barry’s Pawn and Jewlery. The pawnshop has several pieces of fine jewelry, art deco jewelry, gold jewelry, diamonds, silver, and luxury watches. While I was in the shop, I was taken by the different brooches the shop had.

I remembered my grandmother always wore a brooch, and recalled seeing Queen Elizabeth having a brooch on in her photos. I wondered what was the history of brooches.

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A look down memory lane – the history of brooches

Brooches date back to the Bronze Age. The earliest brooches were made of thorns, flint, and sticks, and metal. During the middle ages, brooches became ornaments and decoration. and decoration.

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Mourning Brooches

Mourning brooches sometimes contained hair for the deceased. Like all forms of mourning jewelry, like brooches, were worn after a bereavement and to commemorate loved-ones that had passed.

These brooches were popular during the 8th and 19th century, and were often a provisions in wills. The jewelry pieces showed scenes of sorrow and seed pearls representing tears. The brooches were engraved with the name and date of birth and death of the deceased on the back.

Aigrette Brooches

These brooches are feather shaped and contain flat cut garnets and diamonds. At the height of fashion during the 17th and 18th century, these antique brooches were worn in the hair and attached to the diadem. They are very detailed and have tiny birds flying around the plume.

Floral Brooches

The brooch that depicts a floral spray where the center of the flower is attached to a mechanism that allows it to move when worn is called an En tremblant.

These types of antique brooches were popular in the 18th and 19th century. They were set with rose-cut or old-mine cut diamonds, or both.

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Cameo Brooches

Cameos date back to ancient times. Cameo brooches are associated with Queen Victoria. She loved them, and gave them as gifts. Cameo brooches depicted a narrative of legends or mythological scenes or gods and goddesses.

In the 20th century, Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, David Webb, Verdura, Tiffany & Co. and many of the renowned houses designed different styles of brooches. Movie starts like Elizabeth Taylor wore a dolphin brooch to the opening night of Night of the Iguana.

Today brooches and pins are becoming popular again. Estate brooches feature whimsical animals, colored stones, and flower designs only seen in antique brooches. Vintage brooches are amazing works of art. They come in almost every shape and size you can imagine.

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Where to Purchase Modern and Vintage Brooches

Like all jewelry, many specialty online shops have brooches for sale. Some shops feature brooches with gemstones, sapphire brooches, beautiful things like a pin brooch, and yellow gold and diamond brooches.

Pawn shops like Barry’s Pawn and Jewlery also have luxury jewelry for sale. They have Tiffany and Cartier Jewelry, luxury watches, silver, platinum, diamond, enamel, yellow gold, luxury purses, gold, and vintage brooches and vintage pins.

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One of the unique antique brooches they currently have is a beautiful 14k Gold Peach Coral Brooch Rose Floral Pin.

The shop has experts who can appraise all luxury items. Each fine jewelry collection they have for sale has been tested and authenticated. They even have a jeweler on site who can help evaluate each pin, gold, or fine piece of jewelry brought into the shop.

They buy, sell, and pawn luxury items. If you have diamonds to liquidate, gold to sell, or fine brooches and pins, they are the place to shop.

 

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