Three Vintage Signed Trifari Brooches

Three (3) vintage signed Trifari brooches

Silver Tone Faux Pearl Leaf Brooch
Gold Tone Three Petal Bouquet Brooch
Goldtone Feather Swirl Brooch

Largest 2.75"


Gustavo Trifari, the company’s founder, came from a family of goldsmiths in Naples, Italy. Trifari came to the United States in the early 20th century and began making his beautiful Trifari jewelry in 1910.
Soon after launching the Trifari costume jewelry line, Gustavo Trifari joined forces with his uncle and renamed the business Trifari and Trifari. After the uncle left the company, Trifari kept fabricating his costume jewelry under the Trifari brand.
By 1925, Gustavo Trifaro combined his brand with sales managers Leo Krussman and Carl Fishel. The growing company was known as Trifari, Krussman and Fishel.
Creating beautiful Trifari costume jewelry was no small feat, and Trifari was known for its rigorous quality control measures. Many collectors agree that Trifari jewelry pieces, especially those from the 1930’s-1960, are far above competitors’ offerings.
Over the years, Trifari reworked a central group of jewelry designs. Many distinctive pieces featured colored stones or enameled effects. Other Trifari gold-tone and silver-tone pieces were designed to stand alone.
Highly skilled designers frequently used sterling silver, or a gold-plated finish called vermeil, for hand-set jewelry frames. Trifari’s designers used these techniques, as well as added embellishments such as imitation moonstone, faux pearls, paste gemstones, and rhinestones.
After World War II, Trifari created its own gold-tone alloy. This non-tarnishing metal was known as Trifanium. This novel metal helped place Trifari jewelry above other jewelry pieces at the time.
The driving force behind Trifari jewelry’s popularity, and the reason it’s collectible today, was lead designer Alfred Philippe. He came to Trifari in 1930 after working for renowned fine jewelry firms Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels.
During Philippe’s tenure at these companies, he developed invisible stone settings and brought that high-end technique to Trifari.
Philippe familiarized other Trifari designers with fine jewelry design and fabrication methods.
The name “Trifari Alfred Philippe” was renowned for almost 40 years. Phillippe served as Trifari’s lead designer until 1968.
Alfred Philippe introduced many high-profile jewelry designs. His Crown Trifari brooches reigned from the late 1930s to the 1950s. Crown Trifari brooch pins are enhanced by brilliantly colored cabochons or dazzling clear rhinestones.
Crown Trifari jewelry became so popular that Trifari added a crown to its signature mark, sometime around 1937. Today, vintage Crown Trifari is a sought-after treasure. truelegacyhomes.com

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Jewelry & Watches, Pins/Brooches

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