Skip to content

Antique Brooches

  • Home
  • Antique Brooches
    • Brooches by Shape
      • Animals / Birds / Insects
        • Animal Brooches
        • Birds
        • Insect Brooches
          • Butterflies
      • Star BroochesStar Brooches. The stars were observed by ancient peoples thousands of years ago. They were used for navigation, time-keeping and agriculture for centuries as well as mythology and astrology, it is therefore not surprising that stars were a popular form for jewelry, including brooches. Star brooches have been in use since Roman times and possibly before, however,  it was in the Medieval age where they first began to become popular items of adornment among the wealthy.    
    • Flowers and Foliage
    • GemstonesInformation on gemstones used in brooches
  • Price Guide
    • Blackamoor Brooches Price Guide
    • Cameos
    • Designer BroochesPrice guide to antique and vintage brooches by well known designers including Cartier and Meister.
      • Tiffany
      • Nardi
      • Verdura
      • Cartier
    • Gem Stones Price Guide
      • Agate
      • Diamond Brooches Price Guide
      • Emerald
      • Garnet Brooches
      • Jade
      • Opal Brooches Price Guide
      • Pearl Brooches
      • Ruby
      • Sapphire
    • Metalware
      • Gold
      • Platinum
      • Silver
    • Period & Style BroochesPrice guide to antique and vintage brooches by period and style.
      • Art Deco
      • Roman Brooches
      • Georgian / Pre 1837
      • Renaissance / Renaissance Revival
      • Victorian
  • Jewellery / Brooch Makers
  • Place of Manufacture
    • UK
      • Scotland
Aventurine beetle brooch
Posted inGem Stones Price Guide Gemstones Price Guide

Aventurine Information and History

Aventurine Brooches. Aventurine is a form of quartz which is mostly found in a green color. However, it can also be found in orange, brown, yellow, blue, or grey. It…
Posted inGem Stones Price Guide, Gemstones, Price Guide
Brass George Washington brooch
Posted inMetalware Price Guide

Brass Brooches

Brass brooches can be bought relatively cheaply although designer brooches can fetch far more than the actual worth of the metal. Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc and…
Posted inMetalware, Price Guide
Bird of Paradise Ruby and Diamond Brooch Van Cleef & Arpel
Posted inAnimals / Birds / Insects Birds Price Guide

Birds of Paradise Brooches

Examples and price guides of Merovingian brooches including a gold and garnet cloisonne brooch and some bird shaped brooches
Posted inAnimals / Birds / Insects, Birds, Price Guide
Cloisonne Brooch
Posted inMetalware Price Guide

Cloisonne Brooches

Cloisonne Brooches. Cloisonné is a way of enamelling an object, whereby fine wires are used to delineate the decorative areas (cloisons in French, hence cloisonné) into which enamel paste is…
Posted inMetalware, Price Guide
Glasgow brooch
Posted inPlace of Manufacture Price Guide Scotland Silver UK

Glasgow / Glaswegian Brooches

Glasgow / Glaswegian Brooches. Glasgow's Assay Office was established in 1819 and many Scottish silver brooches were assayed there including some provincial brooches such as Ionian brooches. Below are some…
Posted inPlace of Manufacture, Price Guide, Scotland, Silver, UK
Scottish bronze brooch
Posted inMetalware Price Guide

Bronze Brooches

Bronze brooches are some of the earliest brooches found. The Romans and Vikings would use them to pin garments. Bronze is ideal for enameling and engraving and many jewelry makers…
Posted inMetalware, Price Guide
Scottish Brooch with bloodstone
Posted inPlace of Manufacture Price Guide Scotland Silver UK

Scottish Brooches

Scottish brooches are often of high quality and very desirable. They are often set with Scottish agates or citrine. Prior to 1991, fresh water pearls were also popular. Below are…
Posted inPlace of Manufacture, Price Guide, Scotland, Silver, UK
Filigree gold bar brooch
Posted inMetalware Price Guide

Filigree Brooches

Examples and price guides of Merovingian brooches including a gold and garnet cloisonne brooch and some bird shaped brooches
Posted inMetalware, Price Guide
Antique Silver, Gold and Diamond Star Brooch
Posted inAntique Brooches Brooches by Shape Star Brooches

Diamond Star Shaped Brooches

Diamond Star Shaped Brooches. Diamonds lend themselves well to star shaped brooches as the gemstone can sparkle just like the stars in the sky. Below are some examples of diamond…
Posted inAntique Brooches, Brooches by Shape, Star Brooches
Antique Silver, Gold, Cabochon Emerald, Blister Pearl, Diamond and Ruby Insect Brooch
Posted inAnimals / Birds / Insects Insect Brooches Price Guide

Flies and Bees Brooches Price Guide

Price guide to antique and vintage brooches designed as flies or bees. Bees and flies can be very similar so this section has combined the two. Bees and flies were…
Posted inAnimals / Birds / Insects, Insect Brooches, Price Guide

Posts navigation

1 2 3 … 10 Next page

“When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission.  Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network.”

Copyright 2024 — Antique Brooches. All rights reserved.
Scroll to Top

We are using cookies to give you the best experience on our website.

You can find out more about which cookies we are using or switch them off in .

Antique Brooches
Powered by  GDPR Cookie Compliance
Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings.

If you disable this cookie, we will not be able to save your preferences. This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again.