Featured 2ND STORAGE UNIT AUCTION FIND! ANTIQUE? VINTAGE? TIFFANY PEARL TOP 14kt HAIR PIN?

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  1. journeymagazine

    journeymagazine Well-Known Member

    I found this in the same storage unit as the Bill Blass dress I asked about in the clothing forum. It is a Tiffany & Co. hair pin? (it measures 7" long which seems too long to be a stick pin, no?).
    Can anyone tell the age from the box or the pin itself? I'm guessing 50's or 60's - by the look of the cotton padding in the box, as well as the box I found it in was full of 1940's & 1960's horse racing programs! (I also learned it had belonged to a lady named Gypsy Graves, who owned some race horses & later became president of Ft Lauderdale Collage's Archaeology Dept.!)
    It has some writing on the side but I've taken a dozen photos & can't get a clear one; sorry.
    Looking Tiffany stick pins up on eBay - they are expensive! So I greatly appreciate any info you can give me on what I have so I know what I am doing when selling it!
    Thank you

    COLLECTIBLE TIFFANY PIN 1AA.JPG COLLECTIBLE TIFFANY PIN 1BAA.JPG COLLECTIBLE TIFFANY PIN 2AA.JPG COLLECTIBLE TIFFANY PIN 3AA.JPG COLLECTIBLE TIFFANY PIN 4AA.JPG COLLECTIBLE TIFFANY PIN 4AAA.JPG
     
  2. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

  3. journeymagazine

    journeymagazine Well-Known Member

    In last photo you can see some of the writing/marks (there is something on each side) - but I can't make it out.
    Age of it is most important I think
    Thanks again
     
  4. journeymagazine

    journeymagazine Well-Known Member

    Hat pin? Thanks - I'll go look it up now!
     
  5. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    No, no. Older. You can date Tiffany, if you're lucky to have the original box, by address. Fifth Avenue and 37th Street is... from 1902 until 1940.

    Debora
     
  6. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    It does not appear to be writing.
     
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  7. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    Given that, does it have any markings? And what do you think it's made of?

    Debora
     
  8. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

  9. clutteredcloset49

    clutteredcloset49 Well-Known Member

    Run the top white piece against your tooth. It appears to be a pearl. If so it will be gritty against your tooth.

    Rock crystal?
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    The writing appears to be upside down. I think I see a "K" Might be 10K or 10K GF
    Do you have a sunshine cloth or silver polishing cloth. Give it a little rub. Maybe the letters will stand out better.

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  10. verybrad

    verybrad Well-Known Member

    Whether or not you can photograph it, what does it say?
     
  11. say_it_slowly

    say_it_slowly The worst prison is a closed heart

    Well I 'm guessing you already see Tiffany & Co here.

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  12. say_it_slowly

    say_it_slowly The worst prison is a closed heart

  13. scoutshouse

    scoutshouse Well-Known Member

  14. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    Hair ornament more probably correct, as this is jewellery, from an age when any female over the age of 16 wore her hair up.
     
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  15. journeymagazine

    journeymagazine Well-Known Member

    Tiffany & co is all I could make out too
     
  16. journeymagazine

    journeymagazine Well-Known Member

    Yes!
     
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  17. scoutshouse

    scoutshouse Well-Known Member

  18. scoutshouse

    scoutshouse Well-Known Member

    You can read the mark on this image.
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  19. journeymagazine

    journeymagazine Well-Known Member

    Thanks Debra!
     
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  20. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    It is gorgeous, journey. Calling @kyratango , hatpin alert!:singing:
     
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