The “Golash Brooch”Image Courtesy of Antoinette Matlins. Golash Brooch The Golash brooch – named after its discoverer, Rhode Island jeweler Alan Golash – is a gold brooch set with one of the largest and finest quahog pearls (14 mm round button)...
Handy Pin Around the turn of the twentieth century, handy pins served as a way to secure articles of clothing much like a safety pin and often functioned as the equivalent of the button. According to the book How to Make Jewelry handy pins were described as follows:...
Inseparables A double-needle stick pin brooch connected with a small and delicate chain. Inseparables came into use around 1835. Inseparable – Double Needle Stick Pins with Safety...
Jabot Pin Art Deco Sapphire and Diamond and Emerald Jabot. A jabot pin is a brooch with a bejeweled motif at either end. It is pinned in such a way that only the decorative ends are seen, allowing the fabric to show in between. Circa mid-seventeenth century, jabot...
Lazo Lazo is the Spanish word for “bow” and, when used in jewelry, refers to a style of earring with a top, bow and drop motif. This term is also used for a long ribbon-shaped brooch or bodice ornament, typically made of gold and set with gemstones,...
Lover’s Eye Miniature Eyes have long been thought of as the window of the soul’ alternately revealing and concealing one’s deepest thoughts and feelings. Symbolically, the eye has turned up as the all-seeing eye of God long used by the Masonic Order,...
