This Christmas Stocking is by Weiss one of the most popular costume jewellery firms in America. They were based in New York but they did not manufacture their own jewellery, there is in fact some dispute as to whether they even designed their own jewellery. In essence Albert Weiss was the supreme costume jewellery marketer,…
May is the month of the Chelsea Flower Show so I have picked out from my collection one of my flower brooches. It was made by Albert Weiss who set up his company in New York in 1942, Albert retired in the 1960s when his son took over the business which finally closed down in…
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