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    Posted 7 years ago

    KarenLR71
    (191 items)

    After my mother passed in March of this year, as the only daughter I inherited all of hers and her Mother's jewelry. There is a bit of fine jewelry, albeit, inexpensive fine jewelry but more fascinating is the large amount of costume jewelry. 90% of the costume jewelry belonged to my Grandmother.

    She was born in the early 1900's, so any amount of jewelry that would have been accumulated to my way of thinking/guessing from 1930's to 1970's (late). She died in the early 80's. She seemed to LOVE brooches, Canadian Maple leaves, etc. She also either was a fan of jewelry that looked like grapes or it was a fad at some point.

    This necklace/pendant is very elaborate. I think it's fairly dazzling/ornate. Would like to know time period it was from if anyone has a way to tell....
    The back is stamped with 'ART'.

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    1. Manikin Manikin, 7 years ago
      Beautiful . ModeArt Jewelry Creations Inc. was founded in the late 1940's by Arthur Pepper and believed to be in business until the 1970's and used that Art Mark
      From this site
      http://www.lillysvintagejewelry.com/art_mode_jewelry.htm
    2. KarenLR71, 7 years ago
      Manikin,

      Thanks very much for identifying the company (and founder). I've been googling the ART © mark by itself trying to identify when the company would have used this 'stamp/mark' as opposed to 2 others that were used. Thus far I haven't been able to find this information and when I go through hundreds upon hundreds of images trying to find something that even resembles this piece, I come up empty handed.

      Does anyone know how to refer to the shape of the pendant part of the necklace? I thought of using the word starburst but I think that is incorrect. This one is definitely a challenge for me to 'date it' if nothing else.
    3. KarenLR71, 7 years ago
      I did find one article that stated "On pieces made after 1955, “ART” is followed by the copyright symbol". There is not a lot of detailed info about Arthur Pepper and his company. Assuming the author of the article is correct, then the necklace dates after 1955. I'm not sure why I feel it would NOT have been made in the 70's, I feel it was made somewhere in the late 50's to late 60's. Obviously though, I'm a newbie so all of this is conjecture on my part.
    4. KarenLR71, 7 years ago
      nutsabotas6 - I'm sorry, I never thanked you for your recommendation.
    5. plein-air-painter plein-air-painter, 6 years ago
      Years ago I had that piece in citrine colored stones. I think it is just gorgeous and the necklace is fabulous complement to it. The chain on mine was plain. Wish I still had it.
      Just love it.

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