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This stunning vintage silver & blue crystal brooch by Schoffel & Co.'s features brilliant, prong-set vitrail rhinestones in both rounds and navettes. The crystals in the brooch are really two different colors. Half the stones are a brilliant ice blue and are without coating. The other half are gorgeous vitrail stones. These rhinestones are an excellent example of true vitrail stones (popularly referred to as “watermelon” crystals). The blue stones hide a fire in their cool color, and bold flashes of orange and magenta are struck when light hits the brooch due to the med. light vitrail coating given the beads during production. The circular wreath design of the brooch is misleadingly “simplistic.” Lesser quality rhinestone wreath brooches have a low profile with similarly sized and shaped stones throughout the piece. However, if you look at the photos showing the sides of this Schoffel’s brooch, you can see that the brooch is built similarly to a domed piece. The individual sets of stones creating the sides of the brooch do not lie flat but are angled to give the brooch height and depth. The silver plate has a high shine, and its coolness is another nice contrast to those hidden flames in the stones. This is an excellent, high-end collector’s piece by a significant company; it also remains a gorgeously wearable piece. 

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