Bidspirit auction | An Assortment of Vintage Costume
An Assortment of Vintage Costume Jewelry Brooches and Earrings Including Sarah Coventry - A collection of costume jewelry consisting of thirteen pieces, primarily brooches and one pair of clip-on earrings. The lot includes various figurative, floral, and abstract designs in gold-tone and silver-tone base metals. The earring pair features a gold-tone scroll design set with clear rhinestones and a white faux pearl, mounted on a cream-colored cardboard display card printed in grey characters reading SARAH COVENTRY. Significant figural pieces include a large butterfly brooch with a white enameled base and pink, yellow, and purple painted wing decoration; the reverse is stamped in a rectangular cartouche MADE IN W GERMANY. A large stylized leaf brooch, which also functions as a pendant via an integrated loop, is composed of pink molded plastic or glass in a silver-tone frame. A gold-tone openwork basket brooch contains floral elements set with red, green, and blue rhinestones and white faux pearls, with the back stamped GERMANY. Additional items include a textured gold-tone conch shell brooch accented with faux pearls and rhinestones; a gold-tone spray with two carved cream-colored roses; a silver-tone kilt pin or sword brooch with a central green and orange swirled cabochon; and an abstract silver-tone openwork brooch heavily set with clear rhinestones. A horizontal gold-tone wire-wrapped brooch features three oval cabochons in tiger's eye, grey glass, and dark green stone. The collection is rounded out by a circular gold-tone brooch with a white daisy, a gold-tone abstract brooch with a green rhinestone and white faux pearl, a gold-tone filigree flower brooch, and a small silver-tone bar brooch set with green and clear baguette and round-cut rhinestones.