LARRY VRBA flower brooch with pink and green glass petals and leaves accented by pink rhinestones and tiny pink flowers, large and lovely at 5-3/4″ by 5″. Vrba has been making jewelry for over 50 years, and was the head designer at Miriam Haskell Jewelry in the 1970’s. Larry makes jewelry for the Broadway Stage … Continue reading “LARRY VRBA flower brooch with pink and green glass petals and leaves accented by pink rhinestones”
COLORFUL red, green and blue glass beads necklace in multi-pronged settings of gold tone, 16″. This style is sometimes attributed to Haskell, but it is NOT by Haskell at all! It is a fun necklace by an unknown maker, and a lovely one at that. View #H40531 $58.00
ROSE montees and artificial pearls set in gold tone filigree earrings, 1-1/8″. These are lovely classics with clip backs like those used by Miriam Haskell, but they are not signed. View #Y29561 $78.00
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”
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”
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
BEADED earrings with blue, white, pink and purple glass seed beads, with 1-1/4″ screw backs marked “sterling” on the back. Circa 1940s, these are in excellent condition. View #H35845 $26.00
GOLD TONE large bouquet brooch with faceted topaz colored glass teardrop-shaped beads suspended from the leaves, 5-1/8″ by 2-1/2″, circa 1940. See this same brooch in blue in Ettinger’s book “Popular Jewelry, 1840-1940” on page 161. It is in excellent condition and while the finish on the gold metal is like the Russian gold finish … Continue reading “GOLD TONE large bouquet brooch with faceted topaz colored glass beads”
AMOURELLE black faceted glass beads necklace and earrings by designer Frank Hess, who had been the head designer at Miriam Haskell earlier. The necklace wearable length is 15″ with 5 strands and it is not marked but matches the earrings perfectly and is an Amourelle set with the signed earrings. The 1-1/4″ clip back earrings … Continue reading “AMOURELLE black glass beads necklace & earrings by Frank Hess”
NUTS or brown seeds brooch strung on woven brown cord, circa 1940, made a bit off-center at the top, 4″. This has some elements of a Hess Haskell piece, but I cannot say that it is one. View #H37579 $88.00
