Retro motion cut clean through gold.

This brooch plays with direction and contrast. A crescent moon curves inward while a shooting star cuts across the composition, its gold rays flaring with quiet confidence. The silhouette is light but intentional, designed to read clearly even at a restrained scale.

Crafted in 10k rose gold and set with seed pearls, this piece reflects the late 1930s to early 1940s moment when design leaned modern, graphic, and forward-looking. Celestial motifs appear here not as sentiment, but as structure and signal. Optimistic forms shaped with restraint, motion, and a distinctly pre-war sense of progress.

Details

• Size: 1.75 x 1 inches

• Metal: 10k Rose Gold

• Stone: Seed pearls

• Era: Retro, c. late 1930's– early 1940's

• Condition: Clean vintage condition with light surface wear consistent with age. Tube and wire hinge and steel pinback shows mild waviness from age and use.

Your piece ships in RetroStarr’s branded packaging with care instructions included.

Curated by Dana Sednek, GIA trained jewelry professional and founder of RetroStarr, where each jewel is hand selected for its past lives and future attitude.

A golden orbit paused mid-flight.

A small study in midcentury lift-off. The spiral curves like an orbital path, while three slender rods rise in clean vertical motion. It carries that 1950s belief that the future could be engineered — a little ambition shaped in gold.

Handmade in Israel and marked with the lyre hallmark, the brooch blends sculptural confidence with small, deliberate bursts of color. Each stone sits like a signal light, echoing the early synthetics favored by Israeli workshops of the era. The result is crisp modernist geometry with an unmistakably optimistic posture.

Details

• Era: Midcentury 1950s to 1960s

• Origin: Israel, lyre assay 585 hallmark present

• Metal: 14K yellow gold

• Gemstones: Multicolor round stones, likely synthetic ruby, sapphire, pearl, and emerald, consistent with era

• Size: Approximately 2¼ in x 1⅛ in

• Hallmarks: lyre assay mark and 14K stamp

• Weight: 4.56 g

• Style: Modernist brooch

• Condition: Clean, crisp vintage condition. The faux pearl shows light wear to the nacre consistent with age. Structure solid. Original finish present.

Your piece ships in RetroStarr’s branded packaging with care instructions included.

Curated by Dana Sednek, GIA trained jewelry professional and founder of RetroStarr, where each jewel is hand selected for its past lives and future attitude.