Vintage Tie Tack with Smokey Lucite Disc - 1970s (SOLD)

Here is a neat small tie pin with a little disc of pearlised lucite or acrylic mounted in a smart square of silvertone metal.  The way that the disc is set gives the effect of a star and is very smart.  The stone is like a smokey quartz and is one of those useful shades that matches easily to most colours.  This vintage accessory would work well on many ties. Easy to wear it simply pins through the tie into a twist back guard.  There is a chain and bar attached to this to enable the tie tack to be further secured through a button hole.

JEWELLERY DETAILS

Designer or Brand: none

Country of Origin: UK

Condition:   Good

Decade: 1960s

Style: Retro

Era: Vintage ( 1920s - 1980s)

Type: Tie Pin

Material:  Base Metal and Lucite

Ties first became part of a fashionable gent’s attire in the 19th Century.  Naturally since then there have been many items of jewellery introduced as tie-control devices.  Some of the earlier ones were patented and some innovative ideas were introduced in the form of a pin, tack, clip, clasp, bar, slide and chain.  All of these stick pins, tie pins, tie chains, tie tacks, tie clasps, tie bars, tie slides and tie clips were designed to do one simple job: to prevent a tie from flapping, falling or moving about and to ensure a neat appearance for the wearer. Tie accessories are made from all kinds of materials, predominantly metals so you find them in the precious Gold, Platinum and Silver as well as in base metal.  Tie accessories are usually decorative from conservative styles to the weird, wacky and wonderful.  Tie accessories follow the trends of their era so are good examples of a particular style or fashion – for example – Art Deco or the 1960s.  They are often set with a precious jewel such as a pearl, diamond, sapphire or ruby; a lesser stone or often the very smart mother of pearl and onyx are favourite inlays.  Tie accessories, in the same was as ties themselves,  can be used to show affiliation to a particular regiment or club or activity or sport, can be commemorative tokens and souvenirs.  Tie pins and clips can be made of all kinds of materials for their decorative element such as leather, wood, jet, and early plastics like bakelite, lucite and celluloid.  There is generally a metal element to them in all cases so that they are easy and practical to fasten.