AMOURELLE brooch with orange glass beads, green enameled leaves, textured gold tone beads and filigree, 3-1/2″. This can be worn as a brooch of course, but it also has a clip on the back indicating that it could have been attached to another piece as well, used perhaps as a pendant hanging from a bead necklace. The Amourelle … Continue reading “AMOURELLE brooch with orange glass beads, green enameled leaves”
HOBE earrings in purple, pink and clear unfoiled rhinestones set in hand wrought gilt wire filigree work. Made in about 1945, these are 7/8″ size clip back earrings. View #O39015 $398.00
MIRIAM HASKELL huge bib necklace and matching pierced earrings made up of many small bows in baroque artificial seed pearls and clear rose montee with glass pearls, all set in gold tone filigree. This set was designed by and purchased from Millie Petronzio, who was then the head designer at Miriam Haskell, circa 1996. It … Continue reading “MIRIAM HASKELL huge bib necklace and pierced earrings set”
VENDOME brooch with pink and green faceted glass aurora margarita stones (flower-shaped crystals) in a gold tone filigree setting, 2″. Brilliant and colorful, this is in excellent condition and circa 1960. View #C39873 $42.00
MIRIAM HASKELL bakelite acorn pin of marbled dark green and black bakelite acorns with black enameled filigree tops and gold tone metal beads top bar, all suspended from a pierced metal back, 4-1/4″. A Frank Hess design for Miriam Haskell, it is unsigned as was typical of this era circa 1940. View #H34414 $398.00
FASHIONCRAFT by ROBERT brooch in the style of 1940s Hobe, 2″. This domed round brooch is set with aqua and pale pink rhinestones and a row of clear glass cabochons along the edge, all in a hand worked wire filigree settings. Is it marked on the back, “Fashioncraft Robert”. There are flea bites in two or … Continue reading “FASHIONCRAFT by ROBERT brooch pale pink, aqua”
AMOURELLE large flower brooch in honey and topaz-colored rhinestones and rose montee surrounding a dazzling art glass cabochon center. This is a nice large3″ pin on a gold tone filigree base, marked “Amourelle” in a heart on the back. Amourelle was Frank Hess’s company, under the Kramer umbrella, started after he left his job as head designer … Continue reading “AMOURELLE large flower brooch in honey and cabochons, 1960s”
MIRIAM HASKELL rare and beautifully ornate necklace of pearlized flowers and glass seed pearls mounted on gold tone filigree backing. It is the only piece like this that I have seen so far and it’s an amazing example of early Haskell. The wearable length is 17-1/2″ and it is about 1-5/8″ at the widest. The flowers are pearlized glass … Continue reading “HASKELL Hess rare and ornate necklace with pearlized flowers, c 1930”
BLUE faceted bead earrings with rose montee set in gold tone filigree, clip back 1-1/4″. These have backs that look like early Haskell, but I cannot document it for sure so am selling them as just the lovely earrings they are. View #H36179 $32.00
LORGNETTE sterling, marcasites and pearl lorgnette pendant, possibly in the shape of a very stylized fish. It is beautifully decorated with marcasites and a single pearl, and even the lenses have an embossed design around each glass, both front and back. When closed, the lorgnette portion is 2-3/4″ by 1-1/4″. The chain is 18″ long … Continue reading “LORGNETTE sterling, marcasites and pearl lorgnette pendant”