Tancer II

  • Partridge in a Pear Tree

    It was during the 1950s that the craze for and mass production of Christmas jewellery first began in earnest in America.  During WWII wives and sweethearts wore festive ribbons and corsages made of dried foliage, but many of these have not survived.  By the Korean War at the beginning of the 1950s jewellery designers had…