A platinum Aerr Deco Jabot or Sureté pin, set with carré cut sapphires and old cut diamonds. Origin: France. Period: 1920s-1930s. Dimensions: 7,5 x 1,0 cm. Total diamond weight: ca. 0,75 carat.
A Jabot Pin was worn by men on the Jabot (the predecessor of the tie) and by women on the front of a dress. Often the pin had a bejewelled stopper. The shaft of the arrow would have been concealed beneath the material of the dress. The Jabot pin came back into fashion during the Art Deco period.
