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Showing posts with label Vintage jewelry. Show all posts

Take Mom Shopping!


Assuming that Mom is a woman of extraordinary taste, who delights in discovering things she hasn’t seen anywhere else, show her how in-the-know you are. Take her to Pastec on E. 12th St. The store, which had been a Soho destination for over 20 years, moved to the East Village about a year ago.

An eclectic range of accessories for yourself and your home, come from all over the world, to occupy the calmly hued, sunlit space. Each item is strictly filtered through the discerning lens of owner, Sara Spinelli, who is known for her intolerance of the ordinary, and aversion to boredom. I think Mom will approve.

Pastec, 437 E. 12th St., nr. Ave. A - Phone: 212-219-3922
Read/see more in New York Magazine.

One of the few places you will find jewelry by Monica Castiglioni.

Pillows silk-screened with the top ten google searches of different years.



Vintage Ads for Jewelry

I honestly didn’t realize what I was getting myself into here. I thought it would be seasonally appropriate to post some vintage jewelry ads. I was little prepared for how vast a universe that is. Ads are a chief tool for identification and dating. Vintage jewelry is so widely collected that the online resources are plentiful. As for the Trifari pieces in the ads here, if there's something you just have to have, you might be in luck.
Morning Glory Antiques has a number of pages for Trifari jewelry, where they pair an actual piece with the its original vintage ad.

Trifari, late 1930s to mid 1940s


Trifari, mid-1960s



Trifari, c. 1950

Coro, c. 1958

Castlecliff, c. 1946

Richelieu, c. 1958

Monet, c. 1966
Monet, c. 1963


For about a decade, starting around 1950, Cadillac
ran ads pairing cars with bling from luxury jewelers,
Van Cleef & Arpels, Harry Winston, and Cartier.



De Mario, c. 1958