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You will also find several unsigned Haskell dress clips in the unsigned vintage portion of the website.ĭescription: Amazing Unsigned Haskell Brooch and Bracelet Set - Done with pink and pink/white glass wired florals and blue wound glass barrel type beads in a huge corsage motif. Though Miriam retired due to poor health in the 1950's, the company continued and remains in business to this day, not only creating modern versions of the Haskell style but also manufacturing for many other costume jewelry concerns. Her style was soon imitated by companies such as DeMario, Eugene, Originals by Robert, and even more contemporary companies such as Stanley Hagler. The use of many tiny pearls and mirror backed stones (roses montees) required many hours of hand labor, making this more expensive than the average fashion jewelry for the time. After teaming with Frank Hess she created a style of mostly handwired costume jewelry, quite different than what had been seen up to that time. She started her career managing a gift shop in the McAlpin Hotel, and in 1924 opened her own business. The brooch separates into two dress clips.Miriam Haskell left the Midwest for New York City in the early 1900's and the jewelry industry was never the same. This is a beautiful early DeMario design and a rare demi-parure with rose and green Austrian glass beads, baroque pearls, crystal clear rhinestones in a silver filigree setting. Five rows of different-sized pearls with gold separators and pearls as clusters of flowers with gold-toned leaves. The glass pancake pearls in champagne mocha with gold-tone filigree bead caps and channel-set rhinestone rondelles is evidence of Robert’s limitless creativity.īig and bold, this fabulous bracelet was designed based on the ancient traditions of the Etruscans in ancient Italy. This is rare today and was likely very unusual in its day. The color of the pearls is exquisite, and the different sizes and shapes result in a perfect and ingenious DeMario design.

This baroque pearl necklace is another find to celebrate. The earrings are complimentary with smaller beads and gold-tone woven edge. The lush green glass beads against faux pearls, rhinestones and gold gilt leaves mounted on filigree is a unique and stunning brooch. Green and Gold Demi Parure: Brooch and Earrings.The large earrings are an additional rarity Robert usually kept to button earrings.

The choker necklace has a 4 ½- inch extension chain. The elaborate design includes gold-tone leaves surrounded by pearls and multi-colored rhinestones. More so when it is as glamorous as this one that retains a freshness that speaks of springtime and youth.

HASKELL JEWLERY FULL

It’s quite a coup to find a full parure DeMario in excellent condition.

Faux Pearl Parure (Necklace, Bracelet and Earrings).

The comparatively brief production period (1945-1965) and his preference for limited editions make his jewelry rarer today than that of some of his contemporaries and, therefore, in demand among collectors and expensive. Also, in an age that glorified mass production, Robert was one of the few jewelers who held fast to traditional methods by hand making or hand finishing the pieces that he produced in limited editions. In the 1950s, after the restraints imposed during the war years, costume jewelry offered ladies of all socio-economic strata the ability to luxuriously accessorize the more feminine fashions that had come into style. Robert’s beautifully designed and meticulously crafted jewelry arrived on the scene at exactly the right time. (Gilt is a thin coating of fine gold leaf or powder applied to a surface such as metal filigree.) in New York City.ĭeMario Jewelry includes necklaces, necklace parures, brooches and pins, though Robert is primarily known for his necklaces, bold works of art with unique clusters of glass beads, faux pearls, and rhinestones wired onto a base of gilt filigree. In 1945, he went out on his own and opened Robert DeMario Jewelry, Inc.

We do not know much at all about Robert’s life except that he started his career working for other jewelry designers-be it Haskell or any of the myriad others. At first glance, some of Robert’s beadwork and pearl designs look much like he may have learned them under Haskell’s tutelage. What jewelry historians cannot agree on is whether or not he started out designing for Miriam Haskell. Robert DeMario was a successful designer of costume jewelry in the 1940s-1960s.