Featured Viennese? Secessionist? Antique hatpin with modernist design.

Discussion in 'Antique Discussion' started by kyratango, Mar 9, 2019.

  1. kyratango

    kyratango Bug jewellery addiction!

    Hi all!

    Among a lot of interests:rolleyes:, I'm a stick pins/hatpins collector...
    I just bought this 22cm long hatpin with a very interesting design.

    Description:
    Brass head measures 3/4-inch (0.9cm)wide and 7/8-inch (2.2cm) tall; total length of hatpin 8-3/4 inches 22.2cm)

    Impossible for the moment to find anything similar with Jugendstil/modernist/machine age/secessionist keywords:banghead:

    I'm sure @i need help will find something;)
    And @Any Jewelry may have a clue on the style name!

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    Not in hand yet, so I don't know if there is any mark...
     
  2. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    It is gorgeous, kyra.:happy:
    You're right, it is one of the Modernist styles, possibly transitional Jugendstil to Bauhaus. I don't think Viennese Secessionist, but you never know.
    Jugendstil certainly had a more stylized, structural form, alongside the more general Art Nouveau swirls.
    The trumpet shape reminds me of a pair of very long Jugendstil tin earrings I have, but those are otherwise without decoration. These decorations, especially the slits, look Bauhaus. It is amazing that the triangular 'slit things' are open-centred, very nice detail, only just visible.

    I can picture this in Fritz Lang's Metropolis btw.;)
     
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  3. kyratango

    kyratango Bug jewellery addiction!

    Ha! BAUHAUS was the term I thought without getting it to my tongue:p
    Thanks AJ!:kiss:
    Going back to search...
     
  4. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    nice....wear it well and don't kill anyone with it !! :hilarious::hilarious:
     
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  5. Ghopper1924

    Ghopper1924 Well-Known Member

    It's amazing how much style they could fit on a pin.
     
  6. kyratango

    kyratango Bug jewellery addiction!

    :facepalm:I'll try...:angelic:;)

    I so agree! A small art piece :woot:

    Thanks to you both for your interest:joyful:
     
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