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Posted 3 years ago
Mrstyndall
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This flower brooch just arrived! This is an older marcasite piece that is marked Germany and Sterling. This has a lot of detail and the enamel colors are nice. Hope you enjoy looking!
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There is a beautiful orchid very similar to this one in the Luxury for Fashion Internationaler Modeschmuck Der Fior Collection London 1950-1990 catalog. This was an exhibition in Germany of jewelry from the Fior Collection a very important costume jewelry store in London. This catalog attributes the sterling enamel orchid it Hermann Schwager, Germany, circa 1955. I wonder if he also produced the many Alice Caviness brooches that are sterling, enamel and marcasite designs. Just wonderful!
Absolutely gorgeous flower in a very Caviness style, love it MrsT!
Wow, that's a beautiful Iris brooch!!
Maureen, thank you so much for that info. I have several animal brooches too that I assumed were by Caviness sterling Germany. I had never heard of Hermann Schwager before. Do you think that Schawger designed them and Caviness produced them??
Beautiful one!
I posted mine years ago, same maker IMO :-)
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/244157-huge-vintage-iris-brooch-silver-enamel?in=collection-6100
Thank you for posting, and thanks to plein-air-painter for giving a lead to the maker!!!
Jenni, thank you for loving this piece. Glad you commented :)
Hi Mrstyndall, I think like D&E or Rice Weiner or scores of other manufacturing jewelers, or even Henkel & Grosse in Germany, my bet is that Hermann Schwager designed and produced as a special label series for Alice Caviness. Or perhaps she designed some for her private label and HS produced them. I don't have any conclusive evidence on this. Hermann Schwager is in Pforzheim, Germany which is like Providence, Rhode Island, a center for jewelry production. The company is still in existence apparently, and they list their business as costume jewelry. Maybe I'll write and ask!
Jscotto, very kind of you to say! Thanks
Kyra, thank you. I saw yours before I posted this one in doing some research on this one. They are very similar
Maureen, thank you for the follow up. If you do write, let me know what they say :)
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattleya
this is the flower son nice brooch
Kivatinitz, thank you so much!