Featured Vintage green carved pin--need help to ID..

Hi all...found this in mom's jewelry box. No markings.

 

I know ZIP about it, but LOVE the color!!!!!!! Is it ceramic?

 

Unsure of material...not ceramic..some kind of stone????

 

It looks like Czech glass.

 

I'd say moulded Czech glass. Post war with that back. Nice.

 

Thanks !!! I was fixated on stone for some reason....and now think it glass too!

 

That malachite colour is pretty typical and really rather fine.

 

Again..thanks. I am really not up on vintage jewelry at all. May list this (and a few other pieces ) on Ebay...I assume there is a market for this?

 

I think it is a 1960s costume pin, made to look like Chinese jade carving.
Agree with the Czech glass.

 

Czech peking glass, right?

Love it!

 

I'd call it malachite rather than jadeite, but ymmv.

 

I edited to Peking, but see that's probably not quite...

I see all kinds of Czech green glass - opaque, stiated, clearish etc. - described as jadeite Peking, malachite, now I'm not really sure what to call this. I agree, it looks most like malachite, @Ownedbybear

As long as it contains words like Czech, Bohemian and glass...

I'm on my phone and can't finish what I started but wanted to offer @janettekay some terms to use when selling, if that's what she decides to do.

 

I wouldn't call it Bohemian.

 

Why not, @clutteredcloset49 ?

 

Bohemian glass generally refers to glass from the 1800s to early 1900s. At least in an antique sense.

I'm really bad at history and geography. Seems to me Bohemia was part of Austria, before becoming part of Czechoslovakia. Didn't Czechoslovakia cease to exist in 1939? Then become part of the Eastern Block after WWII?

I think this pin is from the late 60s to early 70s. To me it isn't old enough to be Bohemian.

I realize that many of the countries in that region are now starting to call themselves Bohemia, but this pin doesn't fit in the time frame.

Of course, I can be entirely wrong and not have a full understanding of all the ins and outs of borders, history and who's who in the region.

 

Thanks, @clutteredcloset49

I wasn't sure if you meant geographically, chronologically or stylistically

 

Bohemian/Czech 'Peking' glass is only the type of glass that was made to copy Chinese Peking glass, mostly of the mottled green type.
The glass made to copy gemstones has the name of a gemstone+glass, like jade glass, coral glass, malachite glass.

This is Czech 'Peking' glass:

https://www.hesterflemingvintage.com/blog/2018/4/30/vintage-statement-necklaces

 

Don't worry, when it comes to Bohemia everyone gets confused.
Bohemia is a wonderful, beautiful and interesting part of Europe that has seen periods of independence, but has also been incorporated into other nations, sometimes as an autonomous region.
It is one of Europe's cultural 'powerhouses'.

For items made during the time when Bohemia was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, we use the name Bohemia.
When the Austro-Hungarian empire fell apart after WWI, Bohemia became part of Czechoslovakia, together with Moravia, Slovakia, and part of Silesia.
The new country went through several name changes with only slight differences, but the term Czechoslovakian for items manufactured between 1918 and 1993 is safe.
In 1993 Czechia and Slovakia split up into the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic. The Czech Republic consisted of Bohemia, Moravia, and part of Silesia.
The Czech Republic is now called Czechia. Until the next name change.



So items made in Bohemia are called Bohemian if they are pre-1918, Czechoslovakian between 1918 and 1993, and after that Czech.

Now get some rest.

 

Thank you for the time frame.
That is sort of what I was thinking only didn't have it as clear as you have written.
Going to copy and print so I can remember.
Thanks for the geography/history lesson.

 

Pleasure, cluttered.

I feel honoured.