Art Deco Sterling Jaguar Crouching on Onyx Brooch

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~ This was heady stuff: The industrial revolution had long been underway,... heck that was already ancient history! By 1925, Ford Motor Co. had made it so even the common working man could afford to buy a car if he saved up for it.  American society was going mobile.  The Art Deco era was in full bloom, women in flapper dresses and bob hairdos were busy breaking their mothers' rules. The Roaring Twenties were on fire.

	~ Everything that could be made of the newly discovered chrome was, from toasters to car bumpers. It wouldn't tarnish, and neither would the new youth, or so they thought. ~ It was all about sleekness and speed and excess. Even architecture, expressed in those stalwart structures that just stand there, was made to look in motion.
	It was about change. It was about freedom from the past, mobility, and speeding towards a bright future. The jewels that women wore mirrored the fascination with speed and stealth that their men had for their automobiles.

~   Made of sterling silver, the body of the jaguar on this historic brooch is set with marcasites, which, under an evening's candlelight, looked for all the world like sparkling diamonds. Marcasites had been one of the most popular stones of the early Victorian era before the advent of electricity for this very reason.

~  Brooch measures 2.5" high and 2" across, with swivel-head safety clasp and original pin stem on reverse.

~ In excellent condition. Quintessential Art Deco at its very best.

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