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Exquisite earrings, the end of the 1970s, marked. Jewelery alloy, rhinestone and artificial pearls. Richelieu costume jewellery

Richelieu costume jewellery
Founded in the early 1900s, the company Joseph H. Meyer Bros Co., based in Brooklyn, New York, first used the brand known as Richelieu in 1911. Richelieu produced jewelry for both women and men, in a variety of styles, fashionable during the XX century.
Traditionally inexpensive, Richelieu jewellery became quite popular for its design with artificial pearls, as well as artificial coral. Most of the works of the Richelieu brand, which the collector can meet today, date from 1960-1970s. Richelieu jewellers carefully and masterfully made spectacular decorations of polished metal of gold tone with artificial pearls, clear crystal or colored cabochons. There are decorations with the use of antique metal, but they cost a little more.
In 1978, the Lisner jewelry house, led by David Lisner, bought this company. Accordingly, from that moment they began to label their costume jewellery Lisner-Richelieu. In 1985, the company completed its existence, leaving a stunning collection of jewelry made of Lucite, Austrian rhinestones Aurora Borealis, and rock crystal of high quality.
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A bee brooch. Jewelry alloy, vintage brass, cabochons, rhinestones. Size 6.2×2.8 cm. Nettie Rosenstein costume jewellery

Nettie Rosenstein costume jewellery
Born in 1890 in Salzburg, Austria, Nettie Rosencrans became famous American fashion and jewellery designer. Her parents moved to Harlem, New York while she was a young child. There, Nettie married businessman Saul Rosenstein ran a women’s underwear business (1913). Soon, under the surname of her husband she and her sister began her career in the fashion world. First, it was a hat business. And in the early 1930s, having created a new company, Nettie significantly expands her activity and creates clothes, linens, bags, perfumes and costume jewelry. The work of the talented designer had a stunning success and in 1938 she received the Neiman Marcus Fashion Award for her collection.
Meanwhile, the designer’s creations have grown in price, reaching hundreds of dollars, crazy prices for those times! Also, in 1947, Nettie received another award in the fashion field – Coty Award. Noteworthy, in 1953 a talented designer created a dress for the first lady of the country for the inauguration ceremony of the president.
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A large heart brooch made of metal of gold color. Signature cheap & chic by Moschino. Vintage, original. Moschino Bijoux costume jewellery

Moschino Bijoux costume jewellery
Born in 1950 in Milan, Italy, Franco Moschino – the famous Italian designer. Moschino had established his own brand in 1983, after many years of work (for 11 years) as an illustrator for Giorgio Armani. He started with jeans and clothes for special celebrations, then developed models of shoes, lingerie, evening dresses and costume jewellery. Well known that Moschino loved “provocation” and approached with irony and humor in his design. He sold his ornaments under the brand name “Moschino Bijoux”.
Franco Moschino died in 1994, and Rosella Giardini, who had worked with him for many years, became a designer of the brand.
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Smiling pig, gold pendant. Yellow Earth Pig jewellery decorations

Yellow Earth Pig jewellery decorations

Do you want the coming new year of the yellow earth pig to bring you happiness? Then treat the pig with reverential respect! In particular, buying various souvenirs, brooches and talismans with its image. This will amuse her self-esteem and guarantee her friendly disposition towards you. Noteworthy, in the upcoming 2019 jewelry may not only be in the form of a pig. Following the color of the year, choose gold or yellow (enamel) color brooches, necklaces, bracelets and earrings. Color is more important than the form of jewelry.
To show your respect toward the symbol of 2019, start with decorating the tree with the pig Christmas balls. Any Christmas toy with a picture of a cute pig, a toy “Pig with beads”, a cute wooden handmade souvenir will be an ideal gift for all occasions. As ever, a gift in the form of a pretty piggy-piggy bank for money will be an ideal choice.
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Adorable red and white kitten brooch. 6 cm. 1980s. Ralph Massey sculpted costume jewellery

Ralph Massey sculpted costume jewellery

A very realistic brooch from the 1988 Living Nature collection. Made of resin, hand-painted and varnished. According to the artist himself, his decorations are miniature sculptures.
Born in 1938, Ralph Massey is a talented American artist, sculptor and jewelry designer. Prior to the 1980s, in his work he preferred sculpture. However, in the early 1980s, together with the artist Sylvia Benneth, he opened the art studio “Raven”. And since that time, the main direction in his creativity, has become the creation of jewelry decorations and jewelry boxes. The most interesting collection was “Wildlife”, brooches, earrings and rings in the form of animals and birds. Also, no less interesting was the line of jewellery inspired by the characters of the books “Alice in Wonderland” and “The Wizard of Oz.”
However, in the early 1990s, Massey closed his workshop “Raven” and focused exclusively on painting. All the works of Ralph Massey are rather rare and are appreciated by collectors.
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Black Mask Brooch. Black enamel, crystals. Panetta vintage costume jewellery

Panetta vintage costume jewellery
Benedetto Panetta, another Italian, wrote his name in the history of jewelry. Born in Italy, he moved to America in 1901. Being a jeweler, he first worked in small companies, but then there was a fateful meeting with a fellow countryman, and Benedetto became a designer at Trifari. In those days, Trifary was already a large and very prestigious manufactory. Having received invaluable experience, in 1945, Benedetto opens his own company “Panetta”. From the very beginning, Benedetto set a goal, to erase the line between precious jewelry and costume jewelry. According to Panetta, ornaments should look real. And I must say Benedetto succeeded in it. PANETTA jewelry looks very expensive and exquisite, and almost all products are handmade.
After the death of Benedetto in 1960, his sons Amadeo and Armand continued the family business. However, the company ceased to exist in the late 1980s.
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Sun brooch. Gold tone metal, vintage. Sonia Rykiel costume jewellery

Sonia Rykiel costume jewellery
Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine into the family of Jewish immigrants from Russia and Romania, Alfred Flis and Fanny Tesler, Sonia Rykiel – a famous French fashion designer. Sonia Rykiel (25 May 1930 – 25 August 2016) opened her first store, making clothing and accessories in 1968. However, the history of the Sonia Rykiel brand begins in 1962, when Madame Rykiel, the future mother, could not choose any outfit from what the Parisian shops offered for pregnant women. So, the talented and creative Rykie decided to take it in her hands.
Then followed first knitted sweaters, clothes for women… and gradually developed a design of jewelry to her clothing line.
According to Sonia Rykiel, for many years she did not care much to create something that will go down in history, the main goal was – to dress every woman beautifully. Costume jewellery created by her is still in demand thanks to the wonderful taste and sense of harmony of the designer.
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