Glass Pin

[rebelfirefighter07]

This is a blue glass pin with a lady's face imprinted in it. I was wondering if anyone has seen one and can give me any idea as to its age. It was found with an 1864 Lincoln election medal. The pictures are the same pictures I used to show the election medal in the "Today Finds" section. I figured I'd just use one set of pictures instead of taking one just for the pin. Thanks Andy

 

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[Paleopilot]

This is a blue glass pin with a lady's face imprinted in it. I was wondering if anyone has seen one and can give me any idea as to its age. It was found with an 1864 Lincoln election medal. The pictures are the same pictures I used to show the election medal in the "Today Finds" section. I figured I'd just use one set of pictures instead of taking one just for the pin. Thanks Andy

Cool pinback! Never seen one like that though. Breezie ?

 

[Silver Searcher]

Quite a nice little pin/brooch, I thought it might be Cleopatra what's the mount made from, looks like pinchbeck.

SS

 

[rebelfirefighter07]

I believe the metal is brass. No markings of any kind.

 

[Breezie]

Your brooch is known as a blue glass cameo (although yours appears to be intaglio.) Judging by her hairstyle, I would date it during the Art Deco era.

The one pictured below is from the Victorian era. Note the difference in hairstyle, plus the more ornate bezel.

Super neat find! Breezie

 

[rebelfirefighter07]

What do you think its worth? I have no plan to sell it, just curious.

 

[Archeodeb]

Your brooch is known as a blue glass cameo (although yours appears to be intaglio.) Judging by her hairstyle, I would date it during the Art Deco era.

The one pictured below is from the Victorian era. Note the difference in hairstyle, plus the more ornate bezel.

Super neat find! Breezie

I was going to say -- she looks like a flapper! Definitely Deco era.

My guess is that this is either slump-molded over an embossed or incised plaster mold (depending upon whether the finished glass figure is raised or not -- hard to tell from the photos) or that it was a made using a technique called pate de vere -- literally glass paste. (A method of combining fine glass frit with a binder like sugar water, white glue or gelatin as a binder -- which burns out upon firing.)