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Bulk brooch Lizard on the leaves. Bronze tone jewelery alloy, mother of pearl. A small figure of a lizard, studded with small faceted rhinestones. Ermani Bulatti vintage costume jewelry

Ermani Bulatti vintage costume jewelry

Inspired by the mystery of the universe, the famous Dutch designer Ermani Bulatti has become the author of truly unique decorations. Noteworthy, the peak of his laconic masterpieces fell on the 70-80s of the last century. Traditionally, his designs include Art Deco style, elements of Italian and Egyptian culture, and combination of living and inanimate nature. Slender geometry of lines and unusual dragonflies and butterflies, mysterious lizards and huge crystals. The classic forms of Ermani Bulatti jewelry, except Swarovski faceted crystals, often included mother of pearl, shells, pearls, ivory, silk and semi-precious stones. The base metal – washed or oxidized in old silver, gold, tin or bronze. All jewelry – made by hand, with careful study of all small details. Marked Ermani Bulatti, products of this period were sold only in elite boutiques of London, Milan, Paris and Amsterdam.
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Beautiful pink heart with initials CL brooch. Gold plated jewelry alloy, art glass. Christian Lacroix vintage costume jewelry

Christian Lacroix vintage costume jewelry
The French couturier – Christian Lacroix traditionally created bizarre shapes, intricate design, massive decorations. According to his creations, his two favorite themes in costume jewelry are hearts and crosses. It would seem that it is difficult to invent something new that can cause surprise and admiration, but he succeeds! And the variety of designs is amazing!
Again and again he invents something of his own, distinctive, completely in different styles, but at the same time observing the originality and his own handwriting.
The French brand Christian Lacroix, named after its founder has a deliberately luxurious style. At the moment, based in Paris fashion brand is a part of the High Fashion Syndicate.
The creator of the fashion brand, Christian Lacroix received his firstan education as an art critic at the University of Montpellier. Then, at the Sorbonne in Paris, as an art history connoisseur. Young Lacroix began his career in the Hermes Fashion House, where he got a job as a fashion journalist. Then in 1981, Lacroix moved to work to the Jean Patou Fashion House.
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Gold heart vintage brooch with logo. Faux pearls, jewelry alloy of gold tone, rhinestones. Karl Lagerfeld vintage costume jewelry

Karl Lagerfeld vintage costume jewelry
It is impossible to overestimate the talent of the great Karl Lagerfeld. The world famous designer is also the author of collections of fine jewelry. Only Lagerfeld is capable of such creative, daring and characteristic decorations, perhaps you will not meet anywhere! His handwriting is recognizable and unique. Always in demand, expensive and rare, large ornaments, generously covered with a dense layer of gilding. Time has no power over them, quality is on top.
Karl Lagerfeld has created a completely unique collection of elegant jewelry in the periods of 1983–1984. He became the artistic director of the Chanel house and founded the KL and KL lines by Karl Lagerfeld. The first KL jewelry was made of a matte gold alloy with large baroque pearls, marked with initials KL.
Meanwhile, the Lagerfeld collection of the late 1980s and early 1990s, demonstrates another technique. In particular, the use of Murano glass cabochons, and talented handicraft processing when creating each piece of jewelry.
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Stunning in its detail and quality of performance Columbine in the carnival mask brooch. The dress painted with colored enamels and decorated with crystals. 4 cm. Swarovski vintage costume jewelry

Swarovski vintage costume jewelry
Traditionally, Jewelry decorations by this company has a classic brand mark – swan.
The history of the Swarovski brand begins in 1892, when a young man invented a machine that allowed to work with crystals. And only in 1977, the Swarovski brand starts producing costume jewelery. The first collection, called Swarovski Premium, included jewelry, just decorative crystals and accessories. In 1987, a society of Swarovski lovers appeared, and more than 400,000 people joined it. Perhaps that is what success means.
The Swarovski company produces not only jewelry, it creates lines of any accessories where it is possible to use branded crystals: for example, lamps or clothing.
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A pair of enameled white and red Star earrings. Don Lin vintage costume jewelry

Don Lin vintage costume jewelry
The name Don-Lin is an abbreviation of the first syllables of the names of the owners – Donald and Linda St. Angelo, who founded their company in Providence, Rhode Island in 1972. This brand demonstrates its special style – large statement jewelry (traditionally, 8 – 14 cm), and bright, due to the use of enamels of different colors. Made of jewelry alloy of gold color, many decorations seem to be molded by hand from clay or other soft material. The surface of most jewelry – decorated with cabochons imitating pearls, amethysts, citrines and rubies. Don-Lin brooches and earrings are self-sufficient and never go unnoticed, and Boho-fans especially love them. Besides, limited quantity of exquisite Don Lin jewelry makes absolutely every product the subject of hunting for collectors of vintage jewelry. Undoubtedly, costume jewelry by Don Lin has a high collectible value, and its price will grow.
The company exists today, but without its ideological mastermind and founder (Robert died in 2006).
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Glitter yellow dress angel with a candle pin brooch. Jewelry alloy, enamel. Gold Crown Inc vintage costume jewelry

Gold Crown Inc vintage costume jewelry
According to available information, the American company Gold Crown Inc produced costume jewelry from the 1960s to the 1980s. Thus, all the jewelry of this company is vintage. Quite rare in the modern market of vintage jewelry, these decorations are desirable for collectors, and their price will grow every year. High quality, exquisite design and skill of jewelers contribute to this. Creating their decorations jewelers of the company used a jewelry alloy of silver and gold tones, pewter and enamels. Also, plastic and rhinestones, fashionable in the 1960s. Traditionally, the design was diverse – from Angel and Christmas to Zodiac signs and animal themes. Usually, jewelers stamped their products “Gold Crown Inc”, however, some series came with hang tags.
Noteworthy, the reference book “Popular Jewelry 1840-1940” by Roseann Ettinger features some pieces of Gold Crown Inc jewelry.
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Tragedy and Comedy theatrical mask cufflinks made of copper. KIM craftsmen vintage costume jewelry

KIM craftsmen vintage costume jewelry

The history of Kim Craftsmen, the Largest Custom Jewelry Manufacturer in NYC during the 1950’s to the early 1980, lasted for nearly 50 years, before it ceased to exist in 1997.
Carl and Marty Shimel were still teenagers, when in 1950 they decided to opened their first business in New York. First, they began from wholesale jewelry, as the brothers did not have any money or experience to make jewelry. Opening their own store also turned out to be costly and troublesome. Therefore, the Shimels became intermediaries. After registering a company with the simple name “C & M”, Carl and Marty began to travel to Biju factories, buy costume jewelry decorations, and then resell these riches to retail chains.
Whether intuitively feeling what the demand will be, or simply not fully trusting their own taste, at first the brothers specialized exclusively on charms and monogrammed bracelets. The choice was right. C & M got regular customers, and the Shimels had an impressive bank account and a desire to expand their business.
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