Antique 18KT gold stick pin modelled as an early open motor car, the coachwork in dark green enamel, the spoked wheels in white metal with gold hubs and a driver seated at the tiller, circa 1900.
Novelty stick pins followed whatever the age was excited about, and from about 1900 that was the motor car. The pin is modelled as a veteran open tourer with a high buttoned seat back, a bonnet running forward to a lamp and a driver at the controls, the whole thing under two centimetres long and carrying more detail than that ought to allow.
The coachwork is filled with dark green enamel against polished gold, green being the racing colour Britain took at the Gordon Bennett Cup in 1903 and kept afterwards. The two spoked wheels are made separately in a white metal with gold hubs, so the wheels read as a different material from the body exactly as they did on the real thing, and the spokes are pierced right through.
Motoring was new, expensive and conspicuous when this was made, and a pin like this was worn in the cravat by a man who wanted that known. Early automobilia of this kind is collected as hard by motoring enthusiasts as by jewellery buyers.
The reverse is struck with a maker's punch.
Dimensions -
Length: 5.8 cm
Width: 1.8 cm
Weight: 2.55 g
Specifications -
Metal: 18KT gold
Hallmark: Struck 18 carat
Period: Circa 1900
Decoration: Dark green enamel, white metal wheels with gold hubs
Fitting: Stick pin
Condition :
Very good antique condition.
Antique 18KT gold stick pin modelled as an early open motor car, the coachwork in dark green enamel, the spoked wheels in white metal with gold hubs and a driver seated at the tiller, circa 1900.
Novelty stick pins followed whatever the age was excited about, and from about 1900 that was the motor car. The pin is modelled as a veteran open tourer with a high buttoned seat back, a bonnet running forward to a lamp and a driver at the controls, the whole thing under two centimetres long and carrying more detail than that ought to allow.
The coachwork is filled with dark green enamel against polished gold, green being the racing colour Britain took at the Gordon Bennett Cup in 1903 and kept afterwards. The two spoked wheels are made separately in a white metal with gold hubs, so the wheels read as a different material from the body exactly as they did on the real thing, and the spokes are pierced right through.
Motoring was new, expensive and conspicuous when this was made, and a pin like this was worn in the cravat by a man who wanted that known. Early automobilia of this kind is collected as hard by motoring enthusiasts as by jewellery buyers.
The reverse is struck with a maker's punch.
Dimensions -
Length: 5.8 cm
Width: 1.8 cm
Weight: 2.55 g
Specifications -
Metal: 18KT gold
Hallmark: Struck 18 carat
Period: Circa 1900
Decoration: Dark green enamel, white metal wheels with gold hubs
Fitting: Stick pin
Condition :
Very good antique condition.
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