Big-hat hatpins
Damascene style
The Damascene technique is an interlacing of gold or iron on steel. See ://www.aimjewelry.com/damascene.htm - Toledo, Spain is known for this. There is also a Saint John Damascene, see ://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08459b.htm, not our tradition but we wondered about the name. Connection probably with Damascus, Syria - John of Damascus. Did the technique originate there.
Damascene hatpin, floral
Tall Damascene two colors of brass metal, and black. Looks Moorish. Head is 1 1/4" tall, rod is 9 7/8" long.
Howard C. Scharfe and Marjorie Scharfe Hatpin Collection, Damascene, serpents, big-hat hatpin
Petaled round. Damascene snakes looking at worried rabbit. Special form of metalwork.
Rod 10 3/4", top diameter 3/4".
See the Damascene section at the Lillian Baker encyclopedia at p.36, see Hatpins Collection, Lillian Baker. She says that, yes, this technique did originate in Damascus.
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Damascene or Damascene-type hatpin, horse
Damascene Horse: Head 3/4" diameter, rod 10 1/2". But the back looks very gold. Is this Damascene? Or just an oriental style?
Damascene style
The Damascene technique is an interlacing of gold or iron on steel. See ://www.aimjewelry.com/damascene.htm - Toledo, Spain is known for this. There is also a Saint John Damascene, see ://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08459b.htm, not our tradition but we wondered about the name. Connection probably with Damascus, Syria - John of Damascus. Did the technique originate there.
Damascene hatpin, floral Tall Damascene two colors of brass metal, and black. Looks Moorish. Head is 1 1/4" tall, rod is 9 7/8" long.
Howard C. Scharfe and Marjorie Scharfe Hatpin Collection, Damascene, serpents, big-hat hatpin Petaled round. Damascene snakes looking at worried rabbit. Special form of metalwork.
Rod 10 3/4", top diameter 3/4".
See the Damascene section at the Lillian Baker encyclopedia at p.36, see Hatpins Collection, Lillian Baker. She says that, yes, this technique did originate in Damascus.
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Damascene or Damascene-type hatpin, horse Damascene Horse: Head 3/4" diameter, rod 10 1/2". But the back looks very gold. Is this Damascene? Or just an oriental style?
Comments
The top pin is Spanish and with a heavy Moorish design.
The next two pins were made in Japan and appear to be high quality made during the last part of the 19th century to the first part of the 20th.
Thanks for sharing this collection.
Fred