Featured Neiger brothers brooch?

I bought this from a street vendor a few weeks ago. Googling the front of it didn't give me much to go on. Too many varied results. However I tried a lens search on the back of it just now and it came up with this result

https://alicelily.co.uk/products/vi...lass-cabochon-and-silver-tone-dress-clip-copy

The floral motif in the centre is identical to mine. I have read that the Neiger brothers didn't add any markings to their costume jewellery due to Czech laws at the time. No easy way to confirm if it is the real deal then. The pin on the back gives it some age though I think..

Sadly it looks like something has caused corrosion in small patches here and there.

 

Definitely European, and the filigree reads Czech to me. The dragon's egg cabs do too. I think it's later than any Neiger I've seen, and... did Neiger Brothers make pins?? We Americans never got any, if so.

 

Thanks, yeah i got all the pins.

 

So by pins do you mean brooches? Neiger bros never made any brooches?

 

I honestly have no idea if they made any or not. And yes, "pin" and "brooch" are the same thing in USAian English.

 

A nice Czech brooch, but I don't see anything Neiger about it.
The beads are the Bohemian take on Peking glass, and also called Peking glass even though they were not made in Beijing.

Wishful thinking, imo.

They made a lot of brooches, often with an Egyptian Revival theme or Chinese inspired. Brooches were fashionable at the time and worn more than pendants, so Czech makers made them too.

 

It is ajour die stamped, not filigree, because it is not handmade from wires. That layering of the stamped elements is used a lot in Czech costume jewellery and is called Gürtlerwerk.

I also think it is later.

 

https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/...0051/lot-6d88c1f2-489c-460b-92dd-b4590108c908



They only go as far as "attributed to".

 

Another "attributed to":

https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/...0051/lot-7153082e-99d2-4651-975d-b4590108c908

 

Now those... I'd suspect the second one, but the first has Neiger "stank" all over it.

 

Aw shucks foiled again. Some good information though, thanks. Some of their stuff is really decadent. Not sure if I like so much though.

 

Much of their jewellery is typically Roaring Twenties, the age of decadence.

 

Do you think they are all attributed to as there are no definite markings?

 

Well, anything with a pharaoh gets attributed to them. It seems so does anything with that green mottled glass that has come to be known, as AJ said, as Peking glass. The others will check me on this, but I believe Neiger was also a major supplier of glass elements to other jewellery makers of their day. Lack of a mark leaves attribution a matter of conjecture, & Neiger is always there as wishful thinking.

 

Okay thanks. I guess some pieces are more attributable than others and some are clearly not. Bit of a sliding scale...

 

Yes, Neiger jewellery wasn't marked. But there are period catalogues, and quite a lot of pieces can be found in those.

The Neiger brothers weren't glass makers, only designers and jewellery makers, using pre-made components. A lot of glass beads and cabs were commissioned by them, but those were never made for them exclusively, so others used them too.
Others also copied their jewellery designs, but the execution was always a bit more sloppy than Neiger-made pieces. So if you see ill-fitting cabs or sloppy enamel, you know it is not the real deal.

 

Thank you for sorting that out for me. When I was paying attention to Egyptian jewellery I often saw necklaces of glass beads, including pharaoh heads, IDed as Neiger, so got the idea that they made the beads. And since Bohemia was a big source for glass...

 

The beads and glass cabs were indeed made in Bohemia, in Gablonz, the same town as the Neiger workshops and most other Bohemian jewellery makers.
Gablonz is now named Jablonec, the Czech name.