N&N Vintage Costume Jewelry presents - our Sunday Oct 22 2023 update... here are some highlights...
   
Rarest birds... Trifari Philippe Ming 'big bird' of paradise, never here before, with new 1942 advert and patent - impossible rarity; Reja Sterling Lyre Tail Bird of Paradise, with July 1945 WWD [Women's Wear Daily] feature, here only once before; superb Anthony Sterling Peacock, with 1946 Vogue advert; magnificent Marcel Boucher Seahorse, from 1948, same opal cabochons as the recently added MB Turtle pins...
   
remarkable 1941 Coro face mask with ruby headdress, seen in Brunialti alongside the patented door knocker pin (on site) that gives the date... 1944 Corocraft Sterling Persian Horseman, patented, with new advert supplying the $30 price (and contemporary cultural ID)... wonderful 1945 patented Corocraft Sterling smiling crocodile, eating a pearl... beautiful pair of big and small Reja 1947 Ballerinas, in spangled openwork tutus and aquamarine faces, ID'd from WWD, also available separately...
   
Mazer Sterling pink topaz Fish pin, c 1944, joining a peridot companion on site... spectacular Trifari Philippe Golden Rose with double pendants, patented in 1948, and - like so much of Philippe's production in 1947-48 - a re-working (with new metal technology) of pre war designs: this rose series had been called Regence in 1939 - other examples include the 1948 Fragonard fruit salad revisitations of 1941 designs, 1948 'Renaissance' pins, 1948 'Romantique' revisiting 1941 'Rococo' Empress Eugenie designs, and more... Trifari Philippe 1949 miniature Poodle, tiny and perfect, patented, advertised for $6 at Marshall Fields Chicago that April, with others in the series... and the remarkable Marcel Boucher's Flying Elephants, patented Feb 1947, now re-joining the matching pin already here...
...and there's more to see - in our 18 item, October 29th update
N&N's Research Discoveries page has a useful archive of these illustrated update emails, going back to when they began, in pre-Covid days, December 2019 onwards - and you can catch up there on any emails you may have missed...
All our best...
Neil & Natasha Cuddy (N&N)
N&N Vintage Costume Jewelry
https://www.trifari.com/index.html
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