Metropolitan museum of art MMA vintage costume jewelry
For several decades, many large museums have been producing varied collections of jewelry, based on ancient jewelry, paintings, and objects of decorative and applied art stored in museum collections. Some of the most famous are the jewelry collections of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA) and the National Gallery of Art (NGA). Earrings, necklaces, brooches with the markings of these museums (MFA, MMA, NGA) have long been collectibles. Some of them have become real collectible rarities and are in great demand among collectors and fans of costume jewelry.
Traditionally made as copies of museum originals, they demonstrate high quality workmanship and the use of high-quality materials. In particular, silver, high-quality jewelry alloys, expensive crystals, pearls, gold (14, 22, 24 K) and colored enamels.
New York based MMA International, Inc. has founded more than thirty trademarks since 1976, including five jewelry trademarks. Among them, in particular, MMA (1976), Venus Earrings (1992), Silver Stars (1996), AHM (1998), and Story Beads (2010).
Due to the uniqueness of the plots and the highest quality of performance, MMA jewelry became a collectible almost from the first day of the brand’s appearance.