Soviet Wooden Owl Brooch – Handcrafted Natural Straw Inlay Art (1960s-70s) No box About this piece A charming Soviet-era brooch featuring an owl composed of natural straw inlay work set into a polished black enamel or lacquered ground. The craftsperson has carefully arranged straw of varying tones to create the bird’s body, wings and distinctive [...]
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Vintage Berre Bed Mark Silver Tone Dry Flower Brooch Box not included About this piece A charming brooch from Berre Bed, featuring a delicate dried flower preserved beneath a domed green enamel surface, set within an ornate silver-tone metal frame. The frame displays fine detailing with a leafy, scrollwork pattern typical of mid-20th-century costume jewellery, [...]
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Baltic Soviet Union vintage pins About this piece A collection of Soviet-era lapel pins, predominantly featuring brass and enamelled metal construction with the characteristic weight and patina of authentic period pieces. The designs span local and regional pride badges, including architectural landmarks and civic emblems typical of Baltic republics during the Soviet period. Each pin [...]
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Baltic Soviet Union vintage pins About this piece A collection of Soviet-era pins from the Baltic republics, each mounted on its original wire stem. The lot includes shields bearing regional and civic insignia, portrait badges, and institutional emblems—many in brass or bronze with enamel details. Several feature Cyrillic inscriptions or emblematic imagery (eagles, wreaths, architectural [...]
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Lot of vintage Soviet badges About this piece A collection of Soviet commemorative and ideological badges spanning several decades, each capturing the visual language of USSR state symbolism and achievements. The lot includes large enamel pieces — among them a Lenin portrait badge bearing Cyrillic text
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Pearl sparkling brooch About this piece A striking oval brooch featuring a luminous cream pearl at its heart, set within an intricately pierced silver-toned framework. The filigree surround is densely studded with small crystals arranged in radiating concentric lines, creating a hypnotic, shell-like effect that catches light beautifully. The metalwork shows the hallmarks of mid-twentieth-century [...]
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Ship boat brooch About this piece A charming enamel brooch modelled as a sailing boat, with a multi-coloured geometric sail in navy, red, orange, cream, grey and turquoise panels, all held within a gold-tone metal frame. The hull is rendered in dark enamel, and a small clear rhinestone sits at the waterline, adding a touch [...]
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Butterfly brooch About this piece A charming enamel brooch shaped as a butterfly, with boldly coloured wings in deep blue bordered by a scalloped gilt edge. The upper wings showcase a vibrant arrangement of red, orange, pink and yellow flowers with emerald-green leaves, whilst the lower wings feature soft peachy and cream tones with the [...]
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Strawberry brooch About this piece A charming enamel brooch cast in gilded metal, featuring a cluster of five bright red enamel strawberries suspended from a curved gold-tone branch. The leaves are rendered in deep green enamel, adding natural detail to the whimsical design. The berries are modelled with fine dimpling to suggest the seed pattern [...]
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Cat brooch About this piece This charming cat brooch showcases a finely detailed face rendered in textured brass with a warm, antique-gold finish. The ears are pointed and alert, the whiskers precisely etched, and the nose and mouth delineated with care. Two striking teardrop-shaped stones in emerald green sit proudly as the cat’s eyes, catching [...]
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New Brooches About this piece A charming collection of nine brooches, each capturing a different mood and era. From the delicate red dragonfly with its detailed wings to the trio of glossy cherries with golden leaves, and the vibrant enamelled bird clutching a turquoise stripe, these pieces span decades of design sensibility. The silver-toned wreath [...]
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Soviet Russian Different Football Clubs Badges About this piece A striking set of seven Soviet-era football club badges, each celebrating a different team. The design is consistent across all: a golden football boot rendered in relief, paired with a bold football in the upper corner, set against a coloured enamel background — blue, red, or [...]
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Incredible vintage silver 800 butterfly brooch About this piece A delicate butterfly brooch of exceptional filigree work, rendered in silver with fine openwork detailing across all four wings. The body is articulated and rises gently above the wing plane, giving the piece dimensional life. The underside bears a hallmark reading “800”, confirming silver content of [...]
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Soviet pins About this piece A vibrant collection of Soviet-era pins and badges, each a snapshot of life under the USSR. The group includes architectural landmarks—notably a green and yellow enamel pin depicting Cologne Cathedral (marked ‘Vilnius’), and a silvered metal pin showing a detailed city street plan. Alongside these are regional and civic badges [...]
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Vintage pins Baltic About this piece A collection of Soviet-era pins and badges, predominantly brass or gold-plated, spanning themes from tourism and cultural landmarks to civic emblems and sporting achievement. The pins range from circular medallions to shield and geometric shapes, many featuring bright enamel detail in turquoise, red and cream. Several bear Cyrillic text [...]
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Lot of vintage Soviet badges About this piece A substantial collection of Soviet-era badges and pins, spanning commemorative, architectural and regional themes. The lot includes enamel work on brass and base-metal bodies with pin fastenings, most retaining vibrant original colours. Notable pieces feature turquoise and gold enamel, Cyrillic inscriptions, and imagery ranging from civic monuments [...]
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Vintage Sterling Silver Cats Eye & Marcasite Brooch No box About this piece A striking openwork brooch in sterling silver, centred on a luminous cat’s eye cabochon stone that displays the characteristic milky shimmer and play of light the stone is prized for. The eight-petalled flower design is richly detailed with marcasite — pyrite crystals [...]
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Vintage Soviet badges pins About this piece This collection comprises three Soviet-era badges and pins spanning architectural landmarks and cultural commemoration. The most striking is the enamel pin depicting a figure in dynamic pose, ringed with turquoise and black enamel and inscribed ‘ДВАН БАНКО CENTENNIAL’ (Ivan Banko Centennial) with the date 1856–1956. Alongside are [...]
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Baltic Soviet Union vintage pins About this piece A collection of Soviet-era badges from the Baltic republics, each mounted on a simple metal pin back. The group spans themes of regional pride, cultural heritage and civic achievement—shields bearing heraldic designs, architectural landmarks, and emblematic symbols rendered in bronze, brass and enamel. Several bear Cyrillic inscriptions [...]
Sterling silver brooch with marcasite and pearls, Flower brooch, Brooch with leaf About this piece A striking Art Deco brooch in sterling silver, its dynamic composition built from sweeping curved petals and leaf forms set with marcasite. The dark stone catches light beautifully across the face, creating depth and movement that reads as both floral [...]
Adorable Vintage Sterling Silver 925 Puffy Hollow TEDDY BEAR Pin Brooch About this piece A charming solid sterling silver brooch modelled as a seated teddy bear, its rounded form given three-dimensional appeal through skilled hollow casting. The bear sits upright with paws raised in a cheerful pose, wearing a tiny bow tie at its neck. [...]
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Baltic Soviet Union vintage pins About this piece A collection of brass and enamelled pins from the Soviet Baltic republics, spanning civic, regional and commemorative themes. Each piece is cast in bronze or brass with applied enamel detail, and mounted on a pin stem. The set includes architectural badges (notably a striking multi-storey building marked [...]
Antique silver coral brooch by Gustav Hauber Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany About this piece A charming butterfly brooch in the romantic tradition, crafted from silver with a distinctive scrolled wirework frame. Eight coral spheres — in warm coral-red tones — are set into the symmetrical wings, with a larger polished silver ball at the centre acting [...]
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frog brooch About this piece This charming frog brooch is crafted from silver-toned metal and decorated with vibrant cloisonné enamel work across its body. The enamel is divided into distinct panels in turquoise, red, blue, purple and green, each inlaid with small rhinestone accents that catch the light. A dark green stone forms the eye, [...]
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Lizard brooch About this piece A whimsical enamel brooch cast and hand-painted as a climbing lizard, its slender body curving upward in mid-stride. The colour work is notably detailed: the tail transitions from golden amber through crimson red; the back slopes through lime green to purple at the haunches; the underside is a rich cobalt [...]
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Butterfly brooch About this piece A charming brooch rendered as a four-winged dragonfly, crafted in gold-tone metal with a jewelled body and symmetrical wings. The wings are enamelled in gradated shades of coral-pink and deep red, each bordered with a line of clear rhinestones that catch the light beautifully. The body is articulated with a [...]
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brooch with three hand-painted matryoshkas, USSR-era About this piece A charming folk-inspired brooch depicting three nesting dolls in miniature, hand-painted with characteristic Soviet warmth. The wooden base is a warm mustard yellow, and each matryoshka is rendered with individuality: black linear details define their headscarves and collars, whilst their bodies are softly shaded in cream [...]
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Vintage brooch with natural malachite. About this piece This is a carved malachite brooch of considerable charm and tactile appeal. The stone itself is a substantial piece of natural malachite, worked into a smooth, organic shape and polished to reveal the mineral’s characteristic banded green patterns. Malachite’s swirling striations are on full display here, ranging [...]
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Vintage Hungarian Military KTP SPORTS PROFICIENCY BADGE About this piece A distinctive Hungarian military sports proficiency badge from the Cold War era, featuring a bold eight-pointed star in brass with an enamelled central medallion. The centre displays the Hungarian tricolour — red, white and green — beneath a red star and laurel wreath, with crossed [...]
Set of Two Soviet Tankist Badges Army. Tank. Officer Qualification. Enamel finish. About this piece A pair of Soviet military aviation badges honouring tank crew qualification. Each features a stylised aircraft in flight above a shield, rendered in gilt metal with champlevé enamel detailing. The upper badge displays a red star and numeral 1 in [...]