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FEATURE: FLOWERS

Flowers, leaves, bouquets, and baskets are all wonderful when fashioned out of rhinestones, glass and metals. I have a weakness for enameled jewelry in particular. It started with my grandmother's late Victorian and early Edwardian tiny translucent floral pins and lavalieres and moves through the wonderful 1940s DeRosa enamels and up to the glossy Swarovski jewelry of the 1990s.

Miriam Haskell's head designer Frank Hess, for example, designed wonderful confections in lariat necklaces, clips and coil bracelets using amazing glass leaves, petals and beads. His work is among my all-time favorites. I hope it would please him to know we jewelry-lovers appreciate his work all these years later.

Many jewelry companies had jewelry with a flower motif in their lines each summer. DeRosa is another of my top favorites, with their layered designs and high quality enamel work and rhinestones. And in addition to all the signed floral pieces, there are many unsigned ones as well, celebrating the all the flowers of the Earth.

They can certainly add distinction to an outfit and bring joy to the wearer.

To see our gallery of flower jewelry, click HERE.

And if you would enjoy adding glittering flowers to your wardrobe, see what we have for sale HERE.

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FEATURE: EISENBERG

We were delighted to have been asked to participate in the new book "Eisenberg Originals, The Golden Years of Fashion, Jewelry and Fragrance, 1920s-1950s" by Sharon Schwartz & Laura Sutton. It has just come out this past month, and you can find it on AMAZON. It highlights not only the wonderful jewelry by this maker, but their clothing, perfumes and accessories as well. It is informative and has many colorful photographs to enjoy. Sharon and Laura did a great job with it.

Eisenberg was widely reproduced starting in the 1990's and continuing today, and that hurt the sales of genuine Eisenberg for years afterwards. But this maker did some amazing jewelry, and I am glad to see it having a big come-back now. My favorites are from the 1940s when their name was on large and interesting pieces. But their 1950-60 jewelry, while smaller and less interestingly designed, used brilliant rhinestones and is special in it's own way.

Eisenberg did not design their own jewelry in-house. Starting in 1940 it was designed by Ruth Kamke, who worked for the manufacturer Fallon and Kappel in New York. She also designed for Panetta later for about 15 years. F&K had a mutually exclusive arrangement. Eisenberg jewelry was made only by F&K, and F&K only made Eisenberg. That all changed in the mid-1970s when F&K suddenly closed. After that it is difficult to determine who designed what.

The late Bobye Syverson was kind enough to share her long years of collection Eisenberg, and you can learn more from her interview HERE. She was always generous in sharing her love of Eisenberg, and she will really be missed.


To see the Eisenberg for sale on Morning Glory, please click HERE.

And enjoy our gallery of Eisenberg jewelry HERE.