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Collect Antique Brooches for Your Treasured Collection

What Are Antique Brooches?

Brooches are the jewelry pieces that are used with different type of clothing to enhance the looks of the outfit. These jewelry pieces have been around us since time immemorial, as they were worn by ancient kings and queens. Preserved by their generations, these antique brooches are among items that are collected by many individuals as part of their hobby. 

Variety of Brooches

Antique brooches are available in variety of forms, like costume brooches, antique pins, antique brooch clips, shawl clips and many more. Most of these jewelry brooches are made up of gold and silver and thus, are no less than expensive jewelry pieces. Apart from these precious metals, antique brooches manufactured from different materials are also available:

1. Beads and stones have also been used to produce beautiful and collectible brooches.

2. Coral brooches were popular in Victorian Era and are still available as memorable collectibles.

3. Brooches made up of ivory have exclusive value and can be found only with reputed dealers.

4. Jet-based brooches are not available in huge quantity these days, but they were very popular in ancient times.

5. Pinchbeck brooches are popular, as the material has the capability to stay intact for long period of time.

Variety of Shapes and Designs

Butterfly brooches have always been the most attractive brooches in the world. Apart from that, one can find these brooches in various shapes like star, heart, shield, leaf and feathers. Some unique brooches can also be found in the shape of musical instruments like guitars and violins.

Collecting From Right Sources

Make sure that you collect historical brooches form genuine dealers only, as some of the sellers have fake copies of brooches to make quick profit. Knowledge about the brooches in different eras can help you differentiate between an original and a duplicate brooch.

There are dealers, who obtain the right to produce the replicas of original brooches, so that they can be possessed by more and more individuals. In that case, these brooches should not be considered as fake, but they can be collected as replicas of original pieces.

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