Alfred Philippe's Mr. Monkey of 1939, in rhodium-plated silver metal with crystal rhinestones and glossy enamel. This is a dress clip from the years when Trifari was making its most ambitious work, and Brunialti rates...
A fish trailing bubbles, in vermeil over sterling — one of the 1940s figurals Trifari made during the war years, when restrictions on base metals pushed the house into sterling and, as it turned out, into some of its ...
The companion to the citrine fish, and the same 1940s Trifari figural in vermeil over sterling — from the war years, when restrictions on base metals pushed the house into sterling and into some of its finest work. He...
An Art Deco clamshell in vermeil over sterling, set with blue rhinestone. This is Joseph Mazer working in the 1940s, when wartime metal restrictions sent the good houses to silver and the results were often the best w...
Mazer was one of the master design houses of its era, and this brooch is the reason people say so: a cactus flower in a basket, built with real dimension, in citrine amber and emerald green rhinestone on a gold-plated...
Trifari made very few sterling necklaces, and almost all of them come from the early 1940s, when wartime restrictions on base metals pushed the house into silver. Those pieces are among the most prized things a Trifar...
The companions to Alfred Philippe's "Two Birds on a Branch," and considerably harder to find than the brooch they were made for. Two birds perched on a branch in silver rhodium, worked with multicolored enamel, garnet...
A proud American eagle above the words REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR, cut through in bold block capitals with a pearl set at the center. This is Staret's 1942 patriotic brooch, and it is one of the great achievements of the f...
