Art Nouveau Insect Stickpin
The Gold Bug |
| A beautifully rendered insect in the Art
Nouveau idiom. The creature's head is a small sparkling
diamond set above an elongated shield-shape body. The
antennae, legs and wings radiate outward from the head and body
in a series of concentric curves. A wonderful example of
the "insectomorphic" jewels favored in the early 1900s.
Created by Alling & Co. in 14kt gold.
Alling & Company was a maker of imaginative, finely crafted stickpins, cufflinks and other jewels from the mid 1800s to about 1915. The firm's elegant, often whimsical creations were retailed by Tiffany & Co., Starr & Marcus and other carriage-trade jewelers of the day The maker's mark for Alling & Company, a shamrock enclosing a "1", "4" and "A" in the petals, is stamped on the back of the bug to the lower left (see photograph below). Cost: $465 |
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