In the 1970’s Miriam Haskell made several fun fortune cookie necklaces with various sayings. These necklaces had pendants of realistic sized dimensional fortune cookie with a golden fortune chained to the inside of the cookie. The cookies were hung on a black silk cord. The back of the chained fortune was signed ©Haskell. The necklace…

Tips for Cleaning your Jewelry The tools I like to use to clean costume jewelry are several: a baby toothbrush (these have very soft bristles), wooden toothpicks, wood cuticle stick, cotton swabs, a hair-dryer, towels, and polishing cloth. (See below for a more aggressive cleaning if the gentler method is not enough.) I also use…

I have a collection of Trifari ads and have had the pleasure of coming across many wonderful pieces of Trifari jewelry. See our current Trifari pieces The Trifari jewelry was started by Gustavo Trifari, who came from a family of fine jewelers, and Leo Kraussman in 1918. The partnership was profitable but the business became…