N&N updates tonight - new patents, new adverts, discoveries about the most amazing vintage costume jewelry ever made...and btw, the Trifari Swiss Miss is Heidi - not Helen...
   
four magnificent Trifaris, never on site before, in over 20 years - 1941 Trifari enamelled fruit series blueberries pin clip, with new patent; superb KTF fruit salad double cornucopia, from Jewels of Fantasy; 1939 'Ombre Stones' series huge triple flower deco pin clip; 1941-42 red white and blue WW2 patriotic pinwheel windmill pin...
 
...fascinating face-off, with contemporary press adverts - on the left, authentic 1938 Dujay cowgirl; on the right, 1939 pot metal copy... showing the threat to creative companies like Trifari and Dujay, from 'style pirates', who made cheap copies of their inventions - forcing them to patent and protect their designs - and so, almost by accident, to document them for us now...
   
... more rare and remarkable items... magnificent Trifari 1941 patented flower circle pin, referencing the 2010 Rebaudengo Collection book - never here before, Trifari five pointed starflower necklace, in ruby, based on a 1941 patented flower clip, here just once before - beautiful MB Boucher bowknot, larger variant on a smaller 1939 patent design - the spectacular and 'Glorious' Butterfly, of 1942, marked Staret...
   
...Trifari 1938 Aquamarine Tag pave bow pendant, with ad from Vogue - superb Nettie Rosenstein Sterling Russian Dancer, named Ivanovich, and dated 1946, thanks to Women's Wear Daily - Coro early 40s Nursery Rhyme Series, Cat and the Fiddle chatelaine, to complete the Cow and Moon already on site - and more for cat lovers, Trifari gold whiskers and cabochons pin, in emerald, 1952-53, rarest of the series..
... and there's much more in the update tonight -
Meanwhile - here comes Valentine's Day, and we have an amazing collection of heart pins - easily found through our onsite search...
                   
take a look! - the Search at N&N is amazing, and practically unique on jewelry websites...
And in other research news -
The Trifari 'Swiss Miss and Mister' Pins, formerly known as 'Peter and Helen' - were actually named 'Peter and Heidi' - in the well known, now complete, Saks 5th Ave 'Lapel Loot' advert, Valentines Day 1939, from the New York Times - partially obscured in the (days later) Women's Wear Daily collage version...
almost 81 years later, Heidi - we've got your name right at last...
All our best
Neil & Natasha Cuddy (N&N)
N&N Vintage Costume Jewelry
https://www.trifari.com/index.html
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