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Antique gold tone black plastic hand painted brooch. Florenza vintage costume jewellery

Florenza vintage costume jewellery
The history of iconic jewelry brand Florenza began in 1945, when Dan Kasoff founded his company Dan Kasoff Inc. in New York. He named his jewelry brand after his mother – Florenza.
Mostly made in Victorian style, magnificent Florenza jewels dazzle, have a truly mystical beauty. Each piece of Florenza is always absolutely rare and collectible. Florenza always used only the finest stones from Germany, Austria and the East, with many stones made specially for the brand. Traditionally, the craftsmen used 24kt gold or gold alloys patented by them, bearing the sonorous name – “Florenza Gold”, “French Gold” and “French Rose”.
Noteworthy, Florenza had exclusive contracts with such brands as Revlon and Estee Lauder to produce containers for solid lipsticks and perfume. Among its clients and partner companies were Coro, Weiss, Hattie Carnegie, Capri and Kramer.
After the death of Dan Kasoff, his son Larry Kasoff continued the family business. Alas, after a car accident that occurred in 1981, the famous jewellery brand ceased to exist, remaining Fabulous Florenza forever.
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Strawberry brooch. Kunio Nakajima Jewellery Garden

Kunio Nakajima Jewellery Garden
Jewellery collection of precious metals and stones “In the Garden” by Japanese master Kunio Nakajima includes more than 80 works of exceptional beauty. The designer personally presented his Dragonflies, berries, mushrooms and flowers at the Museum of Applied Arts in Moscow three years ago.
In the middle of the Taisho era (1918-1920), his grandfather began working as an apprentice in the workshop of Nakajima. Born into a family jeweler, in his childhood, Kunio Nakajima played in the studio and therefore had become well acquainted with the jewellery art. Several people were sitting cross-legged behind a desk and blowing glass … These memories forever remained in the heart of Japanese jeweler. For a boy who grew up in such an environment, it was natural to love manual work when hands and professional tools could create anything.
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‘Crusades’ collection by French jeweler Lydia Courteille

French jeweler Lydia Courteille is a professional gemologist, globetrotter and scientist. She has been making jewellery since 1996 and for this relatively (for any jewelry brand) short period has established herself as one of the most innovative and daring jewellery designers in the world. Lydia Courteille adores Parisian glamour press: each of her jewelry collection causes a storm of emotions, always positive. The secret of success of Madame Courteille can be explained simply. This beautiful slim blonde started from collecting rare vintage jewelry, then founded her own jewelry studio, two steps from Place Vendome. She began creating unique, rare, mysterious, extraordinary jewels of high quality.
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Colombia Gold Museum

Colombia Gold Museum – the richest museum in the world, located in the capital of Colombia, Bogota. Museo del Oro (Gold Museum) holds within its walls thousands of unique works of art of pre-Columbian era, during which gold was considered the embodiment of the creative energy of the sun. Looking at the tremulous shine and wandering shimmer of precious exhibits, one unwittingly feels the elusive cold and involvement in these things the death of many Native American empires. How many of them were thrown out of the thirst for gold, which swept Europe – gold lured the Spaniards over the ocean, gold drove the Portuguese to the east, gold … gold … gold – that’s the only requirement white men landed on any newly discovered coast.
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Traditional Armenian jewellery

Traditional Armenian jewellery and folk costume have existed for 3,000 years, and during that time underwent some natural changes and the influence of neighboring peoples, but on the whole it has kept its own characteristics and the name – “Taraz”. Armenian folk costumes are very colorful. Red, which is considered a symbol of fertility, is often found in suits. Other favorite colors of the Armenians were blue, purple, white, green. In different areas, people had their own preferences, for example in Western Armenia preferred white color, and in the eastern part of the country, people preferred to wear red (present Armenia). Dresses were sewn according to wealth, made of silk, brocade, satin, cotton. Previously, Armenian woman liked to wear a lot of jewelry – necklaces, earrings, headwear decorations and bracelets. Jewelry has been an indispensable part of the national costume, it is passed from generation to generation, and is mostly made of silver.
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1960s iconic face Twiggy advertising jewelry and accessories

September 19, 1949 in a suburb of Neasden was born Leslie Hornby, whom the whole world now knows as Twiggy. The first real top model in the history, the popularity of whom was greater than the popularity of the movie stars. It’s her fault that thinness became fashionable. Unearthly creature, girl with eyes half her face turned into a charming woman, implemented in all areas of life. As it turns out, quite fragile fairy can become not just a model, actress, singer and businesswoman. Today, 1960s iconic face Twiggy has turned 66. Twiggy was the first real, live prototype of Barbie. Twiggy Barbie was produced by Mattel in 1967-68. London’s top teen model (advertised as a doll), was similar to the original – same light, close-cropped hair, “real” eyelashes, framing the big eyes … In 1967, the doll was dressed in a striped dress and yellow mini-shoes, in 1968 her “dowry” was supplemented not only by new little things, but also cosmetics – powder puffs, eyeliner, and more. Only after Twiggy appeared doll twins of Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Cher and other stars.
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Berry and fruit vintage jewellery

The world of vintage jewelry is large and diverse. It’s like the whole planet with lots of people from different age groups (mostly elderly and very elderly), and nationality. Among them a special place is occupied by jewelry from Austria – brooches and clips from the series of fruits and berries, which were produced in the 1940s – 50s. In almost every publication on vintage costume jewelry to that kind of jewelry is given a few pages. They really deserve to learn a little more about them. Multicolored brooches and clips – strawberries, pears, raspberries, grapes, cherries, lemons, oranges – have been favorites of many women. And now there are women who collect this particular series of jewelry.
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