Coro vintage jewellery
Turtle Brooch. Coro vintage jewellery
Coro vintage jewellery
American jewelers Emanuel Cohn and Carl Rosenberger founded “Coro” in New York in the 19th century. However, the first branded jewellery was not “CORO”, but “CR”, because the name included the first two letters of the name of each partner. Unfortunately, in 1910 Emanuel Cohn died, but the name Cohn and Rosenberger (CR) remained. Meanwhile, by the mid-1920s, the company had been already the largest producer of jewelry on the continent. In 1937 the company began to brand products of a higher class “Coro Craft”. Noteworthy, there were several companies subsidiaries of Coro. In particular, Francois – based in marketing purposes to promote the better and more expensive jewelry line. Under this brand produced jewellery from 1944 to 1960. And another “daughter” – the company “Vendome” produced high jewelry from 1944 to 1979. After World War II used hallmarks “Corocraft”, “Coro Pegasus” and “Coro Originals”. Finally, “Coro” stopped producing jewellery in 1979.
1940s necklace Myths of the Mayan
Exquisite jewelry, created in all price categories, decorations ranged from everyday wear to very expensive exclusive copies. Noteworthy, for Coro worked great designers: Adolf Katz, Oscar Frank Placco, Marion Weeber, Sidney Pearl, and Lester Gaba. Besides, Gene Verrecchia was chief designer for more than 30 years, from 1933 until the end of 1963.
Coro created unique brooches Coro Duette, and Coro patented their mechanism in 1931. Two separate dress clamps were fixed on one basis and turned into a large brooch. Duet themes were horses, flowers, birds, geometric design, etc. with enamel and crystals of the best quality. And in the 50s there were owls, rabbits, and monkeys. No less famous were brooches “Jelly Belly”, the idea was conceived in the 1940s by Trifari and then copied by Coro. Coro, unlike other brands, has a lot of brands, more than 80.
For their jewelry Coro masters used a variety of stones, Lucite, porcelain, silver, jewelry alloys, gold-plated. Very popular became curly silver brooches.
The head of the group of designers, Adolph Katz, contributed to the success of the company. In addition to selecting sketches, he himself worked on the creation of jewelry and mechanisms. His exquisite brooches, showing excellent synthesis of the material, included floral motifs and animal figures.
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Coro vintage jewellery
1960 Edelweiss brooch
Sterling vermeil clip and earrings set in the shape of a lady’s hand with rhinestone jewels and painted fingernails
Sabre sterling brooch
Hibiscus brooch, Adolf Katz. Enamels, rhinestones
Large brooch, Coro marked, sterling silver, gold-plated, beginning 40s
Moonlight earrings
Turtles silver duo fur clips, jelly belly, mid-40s
Red jewelry set marked Coro
Aladdin’s lamp. Patented work of Adolph Katz, 1940
Bouquet Set of brooch and clips Francoise
Blue Marlin Silver brooch, vintage 40s
Horses Silver duo brooch and clips, vintage 40s
Talisman Silver brooch, 1940s
‘Parrots’ Silver duet, vintage 40s
Amber Flowers
Bouquet brooch
Flowers in a basket brooch
Yellow flowers brooch
Needle bed Brooch
Duckling Brooch. 1960s
Donkey with a cart full of flowers brooch
Persian warrior on horseback, 1944
Lamplighter. Designer Adolph Katz. Patent 1948
Quivering Camellia brooch
Archer, 1946
Cat brooch Jelly Belly, 1930s
Fox Jelly Belly brooch, 1930s
insect brooches, vintage, 1930s
A large 25 cm brooch, gilded silver, cabochons of ruby glass, rock crystal
Peacocks Sterling Jelly belly Adolph Katz brooch, 1945
Rare gold tone flower brooch, 1940s
1930s Bow brooch, covered with rhodium, rock crystal. $ 150
Antelope brooch, 1944. Designer Adolph Katz. Gold plated sterling brooch, lucite, black and white enamel and rhinestones
Frog duette brooch, 1944. Designer Adolph Katz, from the series of Jelly Bellies brooches
African girl brooch. 1940s Adolph Katz, signed Corocraft
Fans. 1946. Signed Coroduet brooch by Adolph Katz
Bouquets of flowers. Silver with enamel glass. rhinestone. 1930s £ 165-200 ROX
Danish couple brooch. Gilded silver, colored rhinestone. 1940s 5 cm £ 360-400 CRIS
Fishes. gilded silver, lucite, pink and sapphire cabochons, transparent rhinestone. 1940s 4.5 cm £ 375-425 CRIS
Heads of horses. Gilded silver, ruby and aquamarine crystals. 1940s 5.75 cm £ 140-180 CRIS
Indians. Red and green enamel, ruby and transparent rhinestone. 1940s 4.5 cm £ 650-700 CRIS
Little angels gilded silver, rhinestone, artificial pearls. 1940s 3.5 cm £ 200-250 CRIS
Owls. gilded silver, blue enamel, aquamarine and transparent rhinestone. 1940s 3.75 cm £ 150-170 CRIS
Owls. Gold plated silver, rhinestone. 1940s 3.75 cm £ 155-175 JJ
Parrots. Metal. green, blue and pink enamel, transparent rhinestone. 1940s 6.25 cm £ 100-135 ABIJ
Dancers duette brooches. Coro. 1940
Folk dancers. Coro 1940 brooch
Spanish dancers brooches
1940’s, Bracelet, metal, gilding and rhinestone. £ 250-300
Key and lock brooch pendant. 1947. Sterling silver, gold plated, plastic, rhinestones. 7.5 cm. Designer Adolph Katz
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