Vintage Art Deco Black Enamel Rhinestone Stick Pin

There is a particular sharpness to good Art Deco jewelry design, a willingness to trade soft curves for confident geometry, and nowhere does that show up more elegantly than in a well-made stick pin, a single, deliberate accent driven through a tie or cravat, meant to be noticed precisely because there was only one of it rather than a whole cluster of ornament.

This is a vintage stick pin with a shield-shaped, elongated arrowhead head in gold-tone gilt metal, its surface divided into geometric compartments filled with glossy black champlevé-style enamel, a top bar, two triangular side panels flanking a raised marquise "eye," and a pointed base section, the whole design pavé-set with roughly thirteen round, faceted, colorless paste stones in an old rose-cut style typical of early-to-mid-century glass work rather than modern brilliant-cut stones. The long, thin pin shaft is set into the head and extends well below it, exactly the length needed to pass through a cravat or tie and secure with a small clutch on the back.

We examined the piece closely, front, back, and shaft, looking for a maker's mark or hallmark, and found none anywhere. The reverse shows only plain gilt metal with an aged amber discoloration where old lacquer has yellowed with time, and the pin shaft itself carries genuine rust along its length. We're telling you honestly: this is unsigned costume jewelry, and while we can't attribute it to a specific maker, the confident geometric design and the intact black enamel work speak for themselves regardless of a missing signature.

We want to walk through condition completely and honestly. The pin shaft shows real, heavy oxidation and rust along essentially its entire length, a genuinely rough cosmetic issue, though it remains straight and structurally intact with no bends or breaks. The metal mount itself carries notable tarnish and a greenish-yellow discoloration, particularly at the raised gold-tone borders, along with dust and grime settled into the enamel grooves and stone settings, consistent with an uncleaned estate piece rather than one that's been cared for recently. The black enamel itself, encouragingly, appears fully intact in every area we examined closely, no chips or cracks that we could find. All of the stone settings appear filled, with no obviously missing stones, though a couple in the lower section read as slightly duller than the rest, possibly minor foil aging typical of old paste stones, though we can't confirm that with certainty from photographs alone. This is an honest, unpolished, well-worn vintage piece, genuinely attractive in its design but clearly aged rather than pristine, and we think that's worth knowing plainly before you decide.

Stick pins occupy a wonderful, often underappreciated corner of vintage jewelry collecting, and a piece with this level of geometric detail, black enamel compartments plus a full complement of pavé paste stones, stands out clearly from the plainer examples that turn up more commonly. They're wonderfully versatile too, equally suited to their original tie-and-cravat purpose or repurposed as a lapel pin or even incorporated into other jewelry by a creative new owner.

We priced this stick pin by comparing it against similar unmarked, enamel-and-paste Art Deco geometric stick pins in the current market, and leaned toward a fair, honest number reflecting the genuinely intact enamel work and full stone complement, balanced against the real rust on the shaft and the overall uncleaned, tarnished condition throughout.

Please look closely at every photograph before deciding, since they show precisely the pin you will receive, rust and tarnish included. If you have any questions about the stones, the enamel, or anything else, we are glad to answer honestly rather than have you guess. It will be packaged carefully and shipped promptly. Thank you for taking a moment to consider this small, sharply geometric piece of vintage stick pin history, and we hope it finds its way onto a lapel or a cravat where it gets to do exactly what it was made for.

 _gsrx_vers_1736 (GS 9.9.5 (1736))

Item specifics

From The Spiderpunk Web collection of authentic antiques and collectibles. Ships from the United States with tracking.