MIRIAM HASKELL Unsigned Filigree Faux Pearl Pin & Clip Earrings; JONNE Earrings

Description: JUST BEAD IT!....Beautiful 1960s unsigned MIRIAM HASKELL? faux pearl pin and clip earrings and signed Jonne clip earrings. Gold-plated base metal.The pin features cream and platinum-colored glass pearl seed beads, baroque pearls, round pearls with clear rhinestone rose montee and layered seed bead flower elements in an ornate gold filigree floral and leaf design.Both the signed JONNE and unsigned earrings complement the pin with similar components.The pin and smaller earrings are unsigned. The larger earrings are signed JONNE.The pin is in good to very good condition. The earrings may be missing some small seed pearls and verdigris.The pin measures 1 7/8" by 1 3/4". The larger JONNE earrings measures 1 1/8" in diameter. The unsigned earrings measure 1" in diameter.Miriam Haskell: 1899-1981Miriam Haskell was an American designer of costume jewelry. With creative partner Frank Hess, she designed affordable pieces from 1920 through the 1960's.Moving to New York City in 1924 with $500 in her pocket, she opened a jewelry boutique in 1926 in the old McAlpin Hotel, and a second outlet within the year at West 57th Street. Frank Hess joined her business the same year. The two worked together until Miriam left the company; Hess continued to design for many years afterwards. In the 1930's, the company relocated to 392 Fifth Avenue; their affordable art glass, strass, and gold-plate parures were popular throughout the Great Depression, and the company went on to open boutiques at Saks Fifth Avenue and Burdine's, as well as stores in Miami and London. The Saks shop also offered pieces by Chanel.Miriam Haskell jewelry was worn for publicity shots, films, and personal use by movie stars Joan Crawford and Lucille Ball, as well as by Gloria Vanderbilt and the Duchess of Windsor. Crawford owned a set of almost every Haskell ever produced, from the 1920's through the 1960's.Her vintage pieces can command high prices from collectors. However, her jewelry was seldom signed before 1950, and it was her brother Joseph Haskell who introduced the first regularly signed Miriam Haskell jewelry. For a very short time during the 1940's, a shop in New England did request all pieces they received be signed by Miriam - this signature being a horseshoe-shaped plaque with Miriam Haskell embossed on it. Pieces with this signature are rare.Her vintage items are eagerly collected and the namesake company, which first displayed her jewelry in New York City's McAlpin Hotel, continues.

Price: 145 USD

Location: Bradenton, Florida

End Time: 2024-12-14T19:14:24.000Z

Shipping Cost: 5.25 USD