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HAR flower pins.
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HAR fruit pins.
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Roger Jean-Pierre necklace and earrings in smokey gray crystals, rhinestones and black japanned paperclip chains. Signed with a hangtag only.
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Roger Jean-Pierre necklace and earrings in clear and sapphire blue rhinestones.
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Fabulous Roger Jean-Pierre collar in two shades of pink and gray-blue stones.
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Back of necklace showing typical Jean-Pierre construction.
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Joseff crucifix, approx 3" long.
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Back of crucifix with signature on plaque at bottom (signed Joseff).
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Rare silver-tone Joseff brooch. Pink stone is 1 inch by 1/2 inch, entire brooch is over 3 inches across. Signed Joseff Hollywood.
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Rare silver-tone Joseff brooch. Pink stone is 1 inch by 1/2 inch, entire brooch is over 3 inches across. Signed Joseff Hollywood.
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Deco style "bubble" necklace, bracelet and earrings. Enamel on sterling, marked "sterling" and "E".
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Black bubbles marked E and Sterling.
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Close-up of Joseff signature.
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Joseff of Hollywood signature.
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Leo Glass Retro Modern pin. Large unfoiled purple kite-shaped stone and swirled ribbons painted in lavender enamel, inset with rhinestones. Signed Leo Glass.
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Staret Retro Modern floral bouquet with unfoiled amethyst-colored oval cabs, gold wash over sterling ribbons bedecked with rhinestones. Signed Staret.
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DeRose floral enamel fur clip.
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Pennino bracelet.
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Pennino fur clip prior to restoration by John Catalano.
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Pennino fur clip after John Catalano restoration.
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Necklace and bracelet of cabochon and rose cut Bohemian garnets, low karat metal, circa 1900. See 100 Years of Collectible Costume Jewelry, Lillian Baker, 1991 ed pg 29 and 30.
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Back of garnet set showing construction.
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Unsigned Haskell wrap bracelet, two dress clips and pin probably from pre-WWII era. Silver metal leaves and flowers, art glass beads. Bracelet is wrapped with silver metal chain--unusual.
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Necklace, cuff bracelet, pin and earrings, all marked DeMario. Original receipt from 1955.
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DeMario cuff bracelet showing woven metal.
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DeMario necklace and earrings of topaz glass.
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Is this a Trifari?
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Pearl part is a bit scuffed. There are rhinestones and black enamel around the belly part.
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Back of the bracelet.
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Trifari floral enamel. Does anyone know anything about this piece?
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Kreisler flower basket pin, with green pressed glass flower, pave rhinestones and pink and yellow gold metal. Signed Kreisler in the tiniest letters on the pin stem.
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Kreisler floral pin--pink and yellow gold metal, green pressed glass flower, pave rhinestones.
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2 trembler orchid pins. Note channel set rhinestones in pin on top and more defined metal work. neither are signed. Trifari designed this piece originally.
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Backs of trembler orchid pins. Top one is rhodium and bottom is pot metal.
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A whole bunch of wood pins, including a bull with fur and lucite horns and a horsehead with a lucite neck.
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Unsigned Haskell pin and bracelet. Wood beads and flowers, enameled leaves and metal butterflies with enameling. Bought separately but within two weeks of each other.
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Backs of pieces. This is the first time I have found a Haskell bracelet with the pierced metal under the motif. Usually these are wired directly to metal spacer bars. The motif should be covered with a smooth metal plate--I have one in this exact size on a Haskell necklace.
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Nordic Sterling pin--gold wash over sterling, unfoiled stones.
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Nordic Sterling pin -- gold wash over sterling, unfoiled green stones.
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Wendy Gell wristies: Jessica Rabbit, Asian face, Roger Rabbit, Bambi.
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Machine Age necklace, made of metal beads. No signature.
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Another Machine Age necklace--looks like a bike chain. Clasp is consistent with other Bengel pieces I have seen. Unsigned.
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Contemporary Daniel Swarovski necklace. Multiple twisted strands of aurora borealis rhinestones mounted on fabric. Picks up the color of whatever you are wearing.
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6 brooches by Walter Lampl.
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Pools of light parure--clear rock crystal and onyx beads (confirmed by gemnologist) with sterling silver floral bands. Earrings have been converted to pierced.
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Another shot of the pools of light parure.
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Citrine and marcasite necklace set marked sterling.
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Boucher fur clips, gold wash over sterling marked MB with Phrygian cap. Missing a couple of rhinestones.
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Now restored by Linn. Thank you!! Go to Linn's Collection at Rainbow's End. http://www.rubylane.com/shops/linnscollectionatrainbowsend
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1933 Chicago Exposition tourist bracelet
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Eisenberg Ice set
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Machine Age bracelets. One on right is signed Goldette NY.
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Boucher fur clip--gold wash over sterling, and Otis Sterling bracelet.
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Nordic Sterling brooch. Signed Nordic Sterling.
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Matching Nordic Sterling pieces in two colors.
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Monet fur clip marked Monet on the clip mechanism. 1" x 1 3/4" Prongs are showing next to the "pinky" fingers.
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Backs of 3 watch pins. None are very large -- the one on the bottom is slightly larger than 1" side-to-side.
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Really poor picture of the signature. If you expand this thumbnail, you can see the lower part of the signature on the right. Imagine a similar capital H above and to the left.
Anyone know who HH is? Nothing I could find in Rainwater.
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Hammered metal bib clips. Marked H H.
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Watch fob. Sterling guilloche enamel with a shamrock under a swastika. Prior to Hitler's use of the swastika, it was defined as: An ancient cosmic or religious symbol formed by a Greek cross with the ends of the arms bent at right angles in either a clockwise or a counterclockwise direction.
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Fred Harvey style turquoise and silver pin.
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Marks including stonesetter stamp.
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Back of the mermaid.
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Eisenberg mermaid. Circa 1940s. Goldwash over sterling.
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Lovely American enamel and sterling pin. The scan does not show the true colors and iridescence.
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Bobye Syverson has a wonderful friend who has a repro of the Eisenberg mermaid, which I bought. I thought it would be useful to show the two side by side (repro and real Eisie). Which is which?
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Victorian Lava Bracelet
Set in 18k yellow gold. 6 11/16" long. Full spectrum of lava colors. One face is of a woman instead of a mask, and may be a replacement. The columns are one of the unique aspects of this piece.
Owner: Lenore Dailey, ravenantq@aol.com
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Close-up of column and lava faces.
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Another view.
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Clasp of woman's face. May not be original to piece.
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Lovely sterling necklace, marked 925.
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Simple clasp where the piece on the left with safety chain slides off the jump ring from the piece on the right.
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An aluminum bracelet from WWII; possibly handmade, but certainly hand-etched.
From left to right, plaques are marked: SICILY (with what looks like Tan Ma); AFRICA; DO NOT FORGET ME 1944 Naples; ROME; ANZIO; CASSINO.
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Eisenberg Can-can dancer
1940s
Gold wash over sterling, one of the Eisenberg figurals. This pin came in a number of colors. 3 3/4" tall, signed Eisenberg and with a "3"stamped into the back of the metal headdress.
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Bryan sterling mod pin with blue enamel. John Bryan was a studio jeweler working in Asheville, North Carolina in the 1950s. A 1956 copy of Craft Horizon's magazine mentions a piece by Bryan: "Sterling Silver necklace with turquoise enamel on concave surfaces offers stunning contrast in color and metal. 16"long , it is handmade by John Bryan of Asheville, N.C." Signed Bryan Sterling.
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Glasshouse Walk (formerly Glasshouse Street), just off the Albert Embankment, is now the only reminder of what was once an internationally important industry in Vauxhall. The map shows the location of Buckingham's glassworks in 1746, just north of Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens.
Glass-making was first introduced to Britain by the Romans, who started blowing glass into moulds, thus allowing a wide variety of shapes to be made, including the first glass windows around 100 AD. Indeed, the Italians, and particularly the Venetians, remained pre-eminent in the glass industry for many hundreds of years. The Venetians protected their technology very successfully, including when working abroad, and grew rich on its proceeds. But foreigners began to challenge Italian dominance through various innovations from the 1600s onwards.
In 1617, Sir Richard Mansel acquired the sole rights for making glass throughout the country. Most monopoly rights and patents lapsed during Oliver Cro...
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Swarovski pagoda (or potato chip) bead necklace.
Beads last made in 1950
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Back side of the glass necklace showing a different cut pattern, with the glass pieces being set at right-angles to each other. Clasp on this side is clear, faceted glass.
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Vendome brooch from a series of 6 designed by Helen Marion.
from Fabulous Fakes by Carole Tanenbaum, Madison Press, c. 2006, pg 172.
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Feather pin, rhinestones set in rhodium.
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Dress clip in the shape of a fountain pen nib of stamped gold-plated metal and enamel. C. 1930s See Jewels of Fantasy pg. 167.
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My new storage cabinets. Each has 14 drawers (2 inches high) and a bottom 5 inch high drawer. Made by a garage cabinet maker. Think 8 screws per drawer front times 45 drawers.... Ouch!
The far right cabinet is missing its top two drawers as the handles were stripped. Replacements are on their way.
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Drawers are 36" wide and 24" deep.
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Sterling Modernist Earrings
Ed Levin
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Ad for Roblee shoes
Sports Illusatrated
May 6, 1957
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Celluloid googley-eyed animals
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This lovely jewelry was given to me by a friend. This is what he said about its provenance:
My mother in law's father, and his forefathers were all trusted aides of the royal family of Gwalior. This was one among many pieces of jewelry that the then Maharaja gifted to my mother in law's grandfather sometime in the late
1800s or early 1900s, in appreciation and recognition of a service of valor.
This is a very typical piece of jewelry of North India. It is worn on the nose and the short chain goes across the cheek and hooks up either to the ear our some part of the hair.
The uniqueness of the piece is that it has work on both sides - on one side it is enameled, while the other side has stone work.
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Back side showing lovely precious gems.
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Space alien -- enameled pot metal clip
C. 1930s-1940s
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Accessocraft smiling sun enamel pin
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Walter Lampl scarab pin.
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WWII "V" for Victory Mother's pin
Son in service.
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Wood googley-eyed nodder pins on original cards.
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Sterling and pearl brooch.
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Mediaeval ruby and gold fede ring
2nd half of 13th century
from the Phyllis Phillips Collection
Christie's auction catalog, pg 12
A fine mediaeval ruby and gold fede ring, the stirrup-shaped bezel with a narrow cabochon ruby between shoulders cast and engraved with running foliage, the back of the hoop formed as two clasped hands (the ruby probably a replacement).
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German Momento Mori Gimmel Ring
C. 1615
from the Phyllis Phillips Collection
Christie's auction catalog, pg 27
A rare German 17th century jeweled and enameled gold momento mori gimmel ring formed as two white enamel hands clasping a black enamel heart, the diamond and ruby-set center dividing to reveal two small coffins containing a male and female figure, the scroll shoulders simulating cuffs, circa 1615.
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