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Antiques Signed Hollycraft Brooch Glass Jewels Rhinestones - $160 (Vancouver)
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1936 – 1978/1979 The company was sold and continued under new ownership until the late 1980s.
The Hollywood Manufacturing Company was founded by Armenian immigrant Joseph Chorbajian. He was the primary designer and remained with his company until it was sold. In 1939 he was joined by cousins Jack Hazard and Archie Chorbajian.
HOLLYCRAFT is listed in the JEWELERS’ BUYERS GUIDE as a manufacturer indicating the company designed, created, and produced the jewelry. They were also jobbers. A jobber is a manufacturer that produces jewelry by order for other companies to be sold under the client’s trademark. HOLLYCRAFT worked as a both a manufacturer of the HOLLYCRAFT jewelry and as a jobber for other notable companies.
Early HOLLYCRAFT jewelry is unsigned. There are some design patents from 1946, but very few. Beginning in 1948 removable paper tags with the trademark HOLLYCRAFT were used to identify the designs.
In 1950, HOLLYCRAFT began signing the jewelry with the HOLLYCRAFT trademark and COPR. with the date. COPR. is an accepted abbreviation for copyright. Many, but not necessarily all, HOLLYCRAFT jewelry designs made from 1950 through 1959 are identified in this way.
The HOLLYCRAFT pastel rhinestone designs from the 1950s are distinctive. They feature a colorful mix of rhinestone shapes in pastel colors set in antiqued gold or silver plating.
In an article titled Jewelry Manufacturing Concepts Part II, Joyce Chorbajian remembers her father’s love of color.
She recounted stories of her father carefully selecting beautiful combinations of colorful flowers for their enormous garden, and insisting on multi-hued Christmas tree decorations…
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