Vintage Signed EXQUISITE Enamel Brooch Pin RED POPPY FLOWER AUGUST BIRTHDAY

  

SIGNED EXQUISITE PIECE in addition to a registration/patent number. The poppy is the birthday flower for August and has recently become more difficult to find and seems to be one of the rare pieces of the birthday flower series. Measures a little under 3 inches by 2 inches. Pin and roll over clasp.

British jewellery company "Exquisite" (1914 - 1970) was founded by engraver Augustus Harry Power (1878 -1952) and Clarence Oswald Flint (1880 - 1946), in the city of Solihull. These two men bought the jewellery business from a jeweller named Walter Archibald Parker Watson (1880 - 1952).

The Exquisite Vintage costume jewellery became especially popular after the Second World War. Normally, Exquisite hand enamelled jewellery is recognized as original and of a high standard and quality. Though the main brand name was Exquisite, they also produced Mirella and originally Myths and Magic by the Tudor Mint.

Exquisite costume jewellery was hand painted enamel, or made of gold or silver plate. The Exquisite jewellery is desirable, rare, expensive and collectible today.