1960s Crown Trifari Pastel “Acorn” Necklace

Fruit Salad, reinvented for a new decade — and this one still wears its original tags. What began in the 1930s with Alfred Philippe recreating the Mughal-inspired Tutti Frutti of the great Paris houses, Trifari updated through the 1950s and early ‘60s with fresh colors and forms. This necklace is that later chapter: gold-plated, set with pastel molded “acorn” glass in the Fruit Salad tradition, softer in palette than the jewel-toned originals but every bit as collectible. New-with-tags survival makes it rarer still — collectors gobbled these up when new, so finding any today is hard; finding one untouched is a small miracle. The molded glass has the same saturated, carved-gem quality that makes Fruit Salad the most prized of all Trifari lines. A fresh, pretty, thoroughly documented example of a design pedigree that runs straight back to Cartier. Worn at the throat — never worn at all, until you.