Coro

This brooch is known as Fuji man.  It can be found in a number of reference books, which allows it to be accurately dated to 1942.  Coro was one of the largest and most prolific costume jewellery manufacturing and wholesale companies in the United States. Fuji man was originally attributed to Adolph Katz, but he was…

These two brooches depict a pair of squirrels. A gentleman in a top hat, possibly holding a baton or scroll, why I’m not sure, and a lady wearing a hat and holding a bunch of flowers, which makes far more sense, were manufactured by Coro.  They are known as ‘jelly belly pins’ because their middles…