Signed Truart vintage costume jewelry

Signed Truart vintage costume jewelry
The history of Truart jewelry began in 1939 in New York, NY. According to Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, Arthur M. Cohen filed for registration of his trademark “Truart” for personal wear jewelry (not included watches) on 10 May 1939. The company manufactured sterling silver jewelry for about three decades, and ceased to exist in the 1960s.
The design of Truart pieces suggests that big part of jewelry was handcrafted in the workshops located in the so-called “Jewelry City” of Attleboro, Massachusetts. Traditionally, the craftsmen used sterling silver and art glass imitating precious stones. The marking includes “Truart Sterling” on a palette shaped base.
Noteworthy, some sources state, that “Hingco Co. on Aleppo St., Providence, Rhode Island adopted Truart”. In fact, Hingeco Vanities Inc. (located at 12 Addison Pl., Providence 9, RI) was a manufacturer of compacts, vanities and jewelry, including patriotic and military. It owned TruEart trademark in the 1950s, which has nothing to do with Truart.
Truart jewelry pieces are highly collectible, and appeared in some reference books on vintage and antique jewelry. In particular, Flower pin mentioned on page 415 of Ralph M. Kovel’s “Antiques and Collectibles Price List 1993”.

Signed Truart vintage costume jewelry