Dusausoy and find they
are so under appreciated or even known by many jewelry historians - I
would love to know who the design genius was at the firm who produced
so many competent pieces in the 1930s - and I wonder how many of
their pieces have been "re-signed" by members of the estate
jewelry trade - a most unattractive group in general.
As for my comments last
night, they are trivial - and I only delve into this point because
you appear to be a "seeker of truth" and a perfectionist.
Please tell your friend who worked at Cartier that the Tiffany
building that currently stands on Worth & Hibiscus is a complete
fabrication that was redone over 20 years ago, so its angled corner
looks nothing like it did in the late 1930s when Marion Wolcott
photographed it. The building that used to stand on the Tiffany site
matched the building West across Hibiscus Street (now housing the
Chanel shop) until Tiffany, or some such developer, sought to make
the building grander. I also think that in my distant, boyhood
memory, that SAKS Fifth Avenue used to occupy that building - but I
will check with the historian at the PB Historical Society -
I am attaching the
website for the company that provided all the stone for the redone
Tiffany building - I know that the current Chanel doorway looks much
the same as the one in the old Wolcott/Cartier photo, but the
building to the East, in the direction of the Atlantic, looked
exactly the same until the Tiffany. They were essentially without
architectural distinction, and were erected to be "tax payers"
during the utra-short Palm Beach season between the world wars -
www.herpelcaststone.com/page/featured-commercial. Also, the rider of
the bicycle could not be on Hibiscus (as the street markings show on
the curb) and be facing Worth Avenue and be in front of the current
Chanel building - enough of this minutiae -
I will return to your
site with great pleasure - it is so rare that something is so well
done - and I will look for your Van Cleef books today in our local
(Manhattan) bookstores -
Respectfully yours,
Derek Ostergard
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