Designer

Designer / Manufacturer Identification Chart

Designer/ Manufacturer	Dates in Business	Characteristics
Accessocraft	1930s to present	Unusual gothic designs highly popular in the 1960s. Many items have a Art Nouveau or Victorian style. Use of antique gold-tone or bronzed metals with unusual stones. Many of the 1930s pieces had a Deco Look.
Art (ModeArt)	1940s to 1970s	Deco style done in antique gold-tone metals. Unusual color combinations of cabochons and rhinestones
Barclay, McClelland	1930s to 1940s	Art Deco designs and use of geometric shapes. The rhinestones were in colors of genuine stones. Plated gold, silver and rhodium. Rare
Boucher, Marcel	1930s-early 1970s	Imaginative designs. Boucher's insects, birds, flowers, leaves, and many other three-dimensional designs are highly prized by collectors
Cadoro	1940s-1970s	Three-dimensional fish, animals, and Russian-inspired jewelry often in gold-tone metal. Often used glass cabochons.
Carnegie, Hattie	1920s-1980s	Whimsical designs made from rhinestones, simulated pearls, beads, and other materials. Oriental influenced jewelry and figurals are highly collectible.
Carolee	1973 to present	Carolee's high quality inspired jewelry from the 1980s
Castlecliff	1940s-1960s	Art Deco to a heavy gothic style
Caviness, Alice	1945 to present	Rare. Items being sold only in exclusive specialty shops
Chanel, Gabrielle "Coco"	1920s to present	Many have the look of the Middle East with an abundance of ropes of simulated pearls and gold-tone chains. Renaissance style.
Ciner	1892 to present	Art Deco style. High quality jewelry with high standards which often appears to look like the "real thing".
Coro (Cohn & Rosenberger)	1901 to present Made in Canada	Mass-produced line of jewelry. You will find them in unusual duettes, enameled tremblers, and whimsical designs by Adolph Katz
DeMario, Robert	1940s to 1960s	Gilded brass filigree and clusters of simulated pearls and glass beads. Rare.
De Nicola	Late 1950s to 1970s	Rare and a few pieces that do show up are great craftsmanship
DeRosa (Ralph DeRosa)	1935-1955	Great craftsmanship. Use of enameling, unusual stone and cuts.
di N, Mimi (di Niscemi, Mimi)	1962 to present	Fantasy jewelry often large size. Glass cabochon , Byzantine style, and highly collectible
Eisenberg	1920s to present	Swarovski's Austrian crystal rhinestones in high quality settings. You will recognize his eye-catching settings on sight. Highly collectible.
Florenza	1940s-1980s	Victorian in style because many were antique gold-tone metal.
Givenchy	1950s-present	Large pieces most often used gold plating, Lucite, and other plastics.
Hagler, Stanley	1950s-1996	Jewelry was more for the hip of the 60s. His jewelry was created from filigree, simulated, freshwater, and baroque pearls.
Haskell, Miriam (Haskell Jewels Ltd.)	1920s-present	Great craftsmanship using gilded brass filigree, clusters of baroque and seed pearls. Bohemian glass beads, and foiled-backed rhinestones.
Hobe	1887-to present	Victorian look. Stones are usually bezel set. Many stone colors with intricate designs.
Hollycraft	1940s-1970s	Victorian look with antique gold plates , and pastel colored rhinestones. Most of it is dated and very helpful to the collector.
Joseff	1940s-1950s	Antique gold-tone metals which were mainly used for Hollywood films. Fantastic detail and imaginative designs.
Korda, Alexander (Thief of Bagdad, Korda)	1940s	Oriental-style jewelry. Star, leopards, Aladdin, and many more items were produced and inspired by the movie "The Thief of Bagdad".
Kramer	1940s-1970s	All materils of the highest quality. Austrian crystals either clear or variety of colors. Great craftsmanship.
Lane, Kenneth J.	1960s to present	Exquisite design, high quality. Designs were animals, figurals, zodiac, mythology, bold and striking. Great combination of colors.
Ledo-Polcini	1911-present	Art deco design and looks like the genuine thing.
Les Bernard	1936 to present	Art deco to whimsical figural. Gold-tone or gold-plated jewelry.
Mazer/Jomaz	1939-1951	Great craftsmanship. Resembles genuine jewelry. imaginative use of rhinestones.
Moini, Iradj	1980s to present	Large, exotic style
Monet	1937-present	Silver and gold tones. classic designs.
Napier	1875-present	Most sought after are the early sterling designs by collectors. But now the unusual Oriental coin and charm bracelets of the 1950s are very collectible.
Panetta	1945 to the early 1980s	Great craftsmanship. Art Deco to enameled figurals. Highly collectible.
Pennino	To 1940s	Very intricate design work mimicks the real thing. Sterling silver, rose gold vermeil were his trade marks.
Rader, Pauline	1960-?	Massive in size and very imaginative
Robert (Robert Levy)	1949-1960	Whimsical fruits and flowers, enameled, and filigree work.
Rosenstein, Nettie	1930s-1960s	Victorian appearance and portrait jewelry
Sandor (Sandor Goldberger)	1930s-1970s	Wide variety of styles from figurals to flowers. Highly collectible are the enameled flowers.
Schiaparelli, Elsa	1920s-1960s	Whimsical designs, natural looking from nature, circus, etc. Very collectible
Schreiner	1950s-1970s	Stunning. Unusual color combinations, gun-metal plating, unusaul cut, and inverted-set rhinestones.
Swarovski	1985-present	High quality Austrian crystal rhinestones. Limited quantities and being offered to members only.
Trifari (TKF) (Trifari, Krussman & Fishel)	1918-present	The figural, retro floral and jelly-bellies from the 1930s are in high demand.. Imaginative designs in the sterling vermeil figural of the 1940s to the classic gold, silver-tone jewelry of today.
Volupte	1926-1960s	Ladies compacts. Rare
Weiss	1940s-1970s	High quality Austrian crystal rhinestones which are similar to the Eisenberg design work. Encrusted butterflies, fruit, and flowers from the 1950s
Whiting & Davis	1876-present	Vicrian or Art Nouveau look. Their mesh spiral snake bracelets are highly collectible.