Louis Kramer exquisite costume jewelry
Louis Kramer exquisite costume jewelry (1943-1980)
Founded by designer Louis Kramer and his two brothers Morris and Harry in 1943 in New York, Kramer Jewellery Creations continued production until the late 1970s. From the very beginning the brand’s jewelry enjoyed a great success among buyers due to original designs and excellent performance.
Kramer jewelry was a high class, with scrupulous performance and often very interesting design. In addition, the high quality products had limited circulation. Also, traditional materials included gilded metal with black enamel, faux pearls, imitation of rubies, emeralds, lapis lazuli, jade, turquoise and pearls.
Noteworthy, in the early 1950s the company produced ornaments for Christian Dior. Accordingly, they labeled these products “Kramer for Christian Dior” and “Dior by Kramer”. A distinctive feature of these decorations are large blue or green stones, usually located in the middle of the jewelry piece, framed by clear rhinestones. Due to Dior name, these pieces were more expensive than the rest of Kramer products.
Traditionally, the company created jewelry in a different price range. Expensive products had stamps, and cheap ones – often only a tag with the name of the company. Besides, Kramer brothers experimented a lot with the design, making simple decorations and extremely extravagant ones. Yet, one thing always remained unchanged – the quality.
Few people know, but in the beginning of its existence, Kramer made jewelry for DeLizza and Elster, and Dan Kasoff Inc., which produced Florenza jewelry.
Kramer’s series “Amourelle” (“Love is …”) appeared in 1963. The author of designs was Frank Hess, who before this happy moment worked for Miriam Haskell. Hess labeled his products simply – Amourelle © or a heart with a script word Amourelle.
Louis Kramer exquisite costume jewelry
September 8, 1948 Kramer patented the trademark “The Diamond Look” and created a collection from silver alloy, strewn with transparent and colored rhinestones. January 5, 1955, Kramer launched “The Golden Look” collection, and decorations from this series shone with “gold.”
Unfortunately for collectors, decorations of this line did not always had marks. Instead, they had paper labels with hand-drawn names of the series. Since 1943 Kramer Jewelry Creations used the Kramer brand, in 1948 the KRAMER PAT.PEND marking appeared.
Having settled on the 5th Avenue, the firm began to use the mark “KRAMER OF N.Y.”, “KRAMER OF NEW YORK” and “KRAMER NEW YORK”. And since September 1962 for some “pearl” jewelry used marking Perles de Lune.
Nowadays, and jewelry by the Kramer company have a high collection value.
Louis Kramer exquisite costume jewelry
