Vintage TLM Thomas Lee Mott jewelry
Vintage TLM Thomas Lee Mott jewelry
Founded in England (Birmingham) in 1875 by Thomas Lee Mott, TLM was the most famous English jewelry brand that set the fashion for jewelry with a butterfly wing. At the beginning of the 20th century, when moving from the Victorian to the Georgian era, artists looked for new, brighter materials that dictated fashion and time. In fact, TOMAS LEE MOTT revolutionized jewelry design by releasing a unique collection with wings of real tropical butterflies.
The company, active at the beginning of the last century, specialized in miniature jewelry works of art.
Traditionally, the craftsmen of this company made jewelry by hand, and sold their products exclusively through jewelry stores. Noteworthy, there are various lines of TLM: imitation alloy jewelry, and silver jewelry. The discovery became jewelry with a butterfly wing, exhibited at the exhibition of the British Empire in 1924. Morpho butterfly wings were brought from South America. Later, the Americans adopted the experience of the British.
In 1933, the company was resold to rival Shiptons LTD in London.
Types of Morpho Butterfly Wing Jewelry:
1. With whole butterflies. As a rule, these are round, rather large-sized brooches inside which there is a butterfly on a beautiful background.
2. With a butterfly wing and artwork: it can be tropical landscapes, scenes of the sea, people and animals, rural views, and outlandish birds.
3. With pristine butterfly wing. Products show natural beauty in all its splendor! Such jewelry is much more expensive.
Most of the butterfly wing jewellery was produced between 1920 and 1930s of the last century.
Vintage TLM Thomas Lee Mott jewelry
