Pink flower brooch. Gold tone metal alloy, enamel, crystals. 7.5 cm. 1980s. DuJay vintage costume jewelry
DuJay vintage costume jewelry
The American brand DuJay, presumably founded in 1934 by Jules Hirsch and Jacques H. Leff, as a division of Hirsch & Leff, has fantastic collections! Delicate, thin, pearlescent enamels of this company can be compared only with Boucher enamels. Noteworthy, this company rarely marked their limited editions jewelry. Instead, they attached paper tags to their products. Collectors know how valuable this company’s jewelry is, however, finding and identifying masterpieces of the Dujay brand is a whole art. Traditionally, they are defined by their unique style and beauty, plant inflorescences, artistic strokes, shades, enamel density, crystal quality, fasteners, and so on.
Some of Dujay pieces, for example, Band series of fur clips designed by Jacques H Leff in 1939 are noted in Brunialti’s “American Costume Jewelry” (Volume I page 162). In particular, 5 members of the band – a drum major, a drummer, a trombone player, French horn player and a bas drum player.
The company ceased to exist in the early 1980s.
