JUDITH HENDLER Lucite & Bamboo Bead Necklace
Unsigned JUDITH HENDLER lucite and bamboo bead necklace has an ethnic flair to it. A curved clear lucite tube goes around the back of the neck and hooks inconspicuously to the side. Textured gold-tone metal beads, natural bamboo beads and clear lucite rounds are strung on gold-tone metal chain. The actual chain portion measures 25". Excellent condition. - $245
Jewelry 10 / Cynthia Chuang Colorful Fish Pin
This humongous colorful fish pin by Cynthia Chuang and Ehr-Ping Tsai (Jewelry 10) comes attached to original card. Porcelain fish is painted in swirls of pinks and blues, with inlaid gold metal wire and raised eyeballs. 3 3/8" across. Mint condition. - $90
Ellelle Italy Colorful Lucite Bead Necklace
Contemporary lucite bead necklace by ellelle Italy features semi-translucent cylinder beads in yummy fruity colors: cherry red, lime green, purple grape, as well as solid black cylinder and faceted disc beads, pearly white saucers, clear rhinestone rondelles, and goldtone discs. This looks like a great piece to dress up your business wardrobe -- it's tailored and elegant, yet with lively colors. 17 1/2" length with slide-in fishhook clasp. Excellent condition! - $80
Ellelle Italy Chunky Honey Lucite Bead Necklace This oversized bold necklace is strung with huge laminated honey and wood-grain brown colored lucite cylinders and discs, the center portion having textured goldtone beads (a "gold nugget" look), and the endpieces set with round lucite beads encasing silver and gold metallic glitter. A wowser piece, with "ellelle Italy" hangtag near the lobster-claw clasp. 21 1/2" length. - $160
Jewelry 10 / Cynthia Chuang Whimsical Frog Pin
I love the whimsical porcelain figural jewelry by the husband and wife team who make up Jewelry 10 -- Cynthia Chuang and Erh-Ping . This reclining happy frog is so colorful with his pastel checkerboard torso and black-and-white striped legs. 1 3/4" across; stamped "Jewelry 10" on reverse. Excellent condition. - $85
Jewelry 10 / Cynthia Chuang Blowfish Fish Pin
Delightful artist-created porcelain fish pin from the collection of Jewelry 10 (Cynthia Chuang and Erh-Ping Tsai). This happy fellow looks like a blowfish and has textured spiny bumps on his colorful peach, green and blue body. Accented with 22K gold. 1 5/8" across. Excellent condition. - $80
Anne Klein Multicolor Enameled Collar Necklace & Earring Set
Circa 1980s, this multi-colored enameled necklace and clip earring set is "all that," crafted in a modernist style. Though unsigned, this looks similar to work done by Anne Klein as well as Napier. Each link is comprised of several connected shapes, with some openwork, and various colors of enamel. The back is thick gold plating. Unmarked, but clearly a work of quality. Necklace is 16 1/4" with hook closure; clip earrings are 1 1/4". Excellent condition. Another View - $140
GAYLES OF LAUGHTER Holiday Theme Resin Necklace This amazing artisan necklace by Gayle of GAYLES OF LAUGHTER is strung with resin figures depicting major U.S. holidays and calendar pages. The necklace can be worn so that the appropriate holiday is displayed front and center. What a great idea!
There is a pink baby sucking his thumb with a "Happy New Year" banner, flanked by two January 1 calendar pages. Then there is a heart for Valentine's Day, a leprechaun hat with four-leaf clover for St. Pat's Day, a chocolate Easter bunny, the American flag for July 4th, a Halloween jack-o-lantern, a turkey with trimmings, and a white-bearded Santa Claus for Christmas. Signed on the back of the flag "Oh Yeah - Another Holiday" and script Gayle. Necklace measures approximately 29 - 30" and slips over the head. Like-new condition. View of New Year's Baby View of Valentine's Heart View of St. Patrick's Day View of Easter Bunny - $200
JUDITH HENDLER Black Lucite & Pearly Bead Necklace
Large and showy lucite necklace featuring large black cylindrical beads, large pearly round beads and smaller chrome spacer beads is unmarked Judith Hendler, a designer for Saks 5th Avenue in the 1970's/80's. A curved black tube fits around the back of the neck and hooks to the necklace at the upper side (the hook blends in easily with the rest of the design). Approximately 21" length. Excellent condition. - $275
CELIA SEBIRI Sterling & Wood Panda Pendant
What a lovable face this panda has! He is made of wood and sterling silver overlay, with cut-out facial features to reveal the wood beneath. He stands 3" tall and has a silver bail on the back large enough to accommodate a heavy chain or cord. Marked C. Sebiri Sterling. Excellent condition. - $140
JUDITH HENDLER Purple Frost & Clear Lucite Wrapped Cuff Bracelet
This fabulous lucite bracelet by designer JUDITH HENDLER features a frosty matte-finish purple rigid cuff wrapped in a spiral of clear smooth lucite. 3/8" thick walls, 2 1/4" inside width. Excellent condition. We are also offering an identical design bracelet in fuschia pink.
Hendler is a renowned jewelry artist whose lucite creations were sold at high-end department stores and featured on numerous television shows in the 1980's. Her pieces were often unsigned, accompanied only with a hang tag, but her style is very distinctive. - $280
JUDITH HENDLER Pink Frost & Clear Lucite Wrapped Cuff Bracelet
This fabulous lucite bracelet by designer JUDITH HENDLER features a frosty matte-finish fuschia pink rigid cuff wrapped in a spiral of clear smooth lucite. 3/8" thick walls, 2 1/4" inside width. Excellent condition. We are also offering an identical design bracelet in purple.
Hendler is a renowned jewelry artist whose lucite creations were sold at high-end department stores and featured on numerous television shows in the 1980's. Her pieces were often unsigned, accompanied only with a hang tag, but her style is very distinctive. - $280
Anne Klein Hinged Bracelet ~ Black Enamel & Matte Goldtone
Hinged goldtone bracelet has an exterior matte finish, and raised square mounts with black resin inserts. Very classy looking, and in like-new condition. For a fairly slim wrist measuring 3/8" wide, 2 1/8" inside width. Push-button side hinge. Marked AK inside, which signified Anne Klein. Excellent condition. - $20
JUDITH HENDLER Lucite Heart & Sterling Necklace & Earring Set Judith Hendler modernist necklace and drop earring set is unmarked, but clearly her distinctive work. Clear rigid tubular lucite necklace fits a slim neck, measuring approximately 14 1/2", and hooking at the side. A sterling silver clamp (marked Sterling on reverse) fits over the center portion of a lucite tube, from which is suspended a huge molded lucite heart. The heart measures 2 3/8" wide; it is thicker around the exterior (1/2") to create a bowl-like depression in the center. A clear rhinestone is set into the upper part of the heart. Matching post earrings for pierced ears features a sculpted sterling silver disc at the ear, from which is suspended a 1 1/2" wide heart made in the same manner as the necklace pendant. Earrings measures a total of 2 1/8" height.
The necklace has a small area of surface scratching on the back of the tube near the centerpiece, which is not conspicuous and does not affect structural soundness in any way.
JUDITH HENDLER Acri-Gems Clear & White Cuff Bracelet
Fabulous cuff bracelet by 1980's designer Judith Hendler is made from three curved lucite "Acri-Gems" tubes (two clear, one opaque white), stacked and bonded together. 1 1/2" width, 1/2" thick, 2 1/8 inside width, 1 1/8" opening. Unmarked, as Judith Hendler's pieces often are, but the design is quite distinctive. Excellent condition. - $200
Gerda Lyngaard for Monies Black Bead, Horn & Shell Torsade Necklace
This 17-strand torsade bib necklace features the natural materials and distinctive black horn hook clasp designed by Gerda Lyngaard for Monies. Strands of numerous black beads and tiny seashells intertwine together to create this ethnic tribal look. 23" length. This is not marked except for a "Made in the Philippines" sticker still on the clasp (and some of these Monies pieces are made there). There is a light scuff underneath the clasp hook, and a tiny chip in the rim of the other part of the clasp, observable upon close scrutiny. - $140
Ellelle Italy Art Glass Bead Torsade Necklace
Magnificent 5-strand torsade necklace by Ellelle Italy is strung with a variety of wonderful art glass and metal beads that lend a natural stone effect. Very tribal looking! Warm hues of creams, browns, oranges . . . molded bluish-brown pendant-shaped glass beads, cream-colored melon beads, tiny marbelized coral-colored beads and brown disc-shaped beads resemble stones like jasper and agate, ribbed metal cylinder beads, crimped metal discs, antiqued silvertone metal beads, there is just so much going on here! Ends are finished with large ribbed metal caps and lobster-claw clasp. Total length 21". Excellent condition. - $500
VERDUCCI Modernist Faux Amber Lucite & Gold Tone Clip Earrings ~ On Card
1970s/80s clip earrings by VERDUCCI are modernist in style, very much in the style of lucite/metal modernist vintage jewelry that is now back in vogue. This design is quite clever, with half circles of faux amber and goldtone metal touching at the bottom, but not quite at the top. 7/8". Still on original card and in mint condition. - $10
Sajen Sterling Silver Pendant ~ Amber & Garnet This sterling silver necklace pendant is bezel set with amber and garnet. Marked SAJEN 925, the pendant is modernist in style, with hollow tube top for chain to be inserted through. Smooth amber cabochon measures 3/4" across; faceted garnet measures 3/8" across. Both stones are partly open-backed to allow light through. 1 1/4" total height; excellent condition. - $40
ERWIN PEARL Modernist Travel Theme Charm Bracelet
Fantastic signed ERWIN PEARL charm bracelet is bold and chunky, with modernist style travel theme charms including an airplane, bus, suitcase, gas pump, sailboat and tourist carrying luggage. Large interlocking links and toggle clasp; metal is gold-tone. Length is about 7 1/4". Each charm measures up to 1 1/4" in height and is marked E. Pearl. Very good vintage condition apart from mild surface scratching. - $60