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Mary Gage / Lillian Pines / Jo Michels (page 4)
A contemporary and friend of Mary Gage was Lillian H. Rosenblum Pines, who was born in 1894 in Manchester, NH. According to one Internet source, Pines graduated from Radcliffe College in 1915 and had a retail store in the Westbury Hotel on Madison Avenue in New York City. She died at the age of 100. Gage and Pines clearly influenced each other.
Gage (left) and Pines (right) pieces can be somewhat similar in form and easily confused
Both Pines and Gage used wirework and beads. Pines pieces are sometimes more naturalistic (in the form of fans or lifelike flower baskets, for instance), and she often used twisted wire and filigree details. Both artists produced interesting scimitar-form pieces.
Another New York jeweler, Jo Michels, produced this brooch centering a faceted amethyst.
Notice the similarities with the Lillian Pines pin (above right)
The Jo Michels pin above is very much like the work of Lillian Pines, and is atypical for her. Michels, a New York City jeweler in the 1940s and 1950s, usually produced round or oval repoussé pieces like the one below:
The oval Michels piece measures 2-1/2" W and 3/4" H. The circular Michels pin with a faceted amethyst measures 1-7/8" round. Both are signed with a small applied nameplate that is also very much like those used by Gage and Pines at times.
Jo Michels pin (left) and Madeline Turner pin (right) with similar ceramic inserts. The
Turner pin is 1-3/4" W and is marked AN ORIGINAL / [M. TURNER logo]
HANDWROUGHT / STERLING / 150. The Michels pin is 1-9/16" W and
is marked JO MICHELS / STERLING
Interestingly, we found a Madeline Turner pin that has an almost identical ceramic insert to one found in a Jo Michels pin. The insert is unsigned. Did one make both inserts? Or did they simply purchase them from the same source?
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Brooch / pin, silver, flat and rectangular with rounded corners, centering a bezel-set rectangular micro-mosaic of a flower arrangement in a red background, with a heavy round applied wire encircling the bezel and four evenly spaced groups of three applied silver beads around the wire.
Size: 1-3/4" H and 1-3/8" W
Marks: LILLIAN PINES / NEW YORK / STERLING |
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Brooch / pin, composed of five overlapping circles in a heart-shaped arrangement, centering a carved bezel-set turquoise stone with a decorative wire around the bezel and three small beads on top.
Size: 1-3/16" W and 1-1/8" H
Marks: LILLIAN PINES / NEW YORK / STERLING
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Brooch / pin, large, round, in the shape of a stylized flower blossom, composed of smooth overlapping petals separated by small silver beads, and centering a carved bezel-set turquoise or jade blossom inside a silver ring ornamented with silver beads.
Size: 3-3/16" W and 3-3/16" H
Marks: LILLIAN PINES / NEW YORK / STERLING
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Brooch / pin, oval, composed of six chased lily pads surrounding a central bezel-set oval green speckled aventurine cabochon stone, with applied beads and vines on an oval frame with underlying irregular wirework supports.
Size: 2-3/16" W and 1-3/4" H
Marks: LILLIAN PINES / NEW YORK / STERLING
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Brooch / pin, round, composed of four large chased lily pads interspersed with four smaller ones, surrounding a central bezel-set round clear cabochon stone, with applied beads and vines on a round frame.
Size: 2-1/8" W
Marks: LILLIAN PINES / NEW YORK / STERLING
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Brooch / pin, round with four large chased lily pads interspersed with four smaller ones, surrounding a central bezel-set round clear cabochon stone, with applied beads and vines on a round frame.
Size: 1-15/16" W
Marks: LILLIAN PINES / NEW YORK / STERLING
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Brooch / pin, with heart at center, surrounded by bead, flower, and wire ornament. Heavy.
Size: 2" W and 2" H
Marks: LILLIAN PINES / STERLING
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Brooch / pin, fan-shaped with drop made of small 3-dimensional ornamented bucket containing bead-like flowers with flowers and beads on the side and twisted rope handle.
Size: Top: 1-1/2" W and 1-1/16" H Drop: 7/8" W and 1-1/4" H and 5/8" D Together: 1-1/2" W and 2-3/8" H
Marks: LILLIAN PINES / STERLING
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Sweater pin, made of two fan-shaped pins joined by two flattened chains.
Size: Fans: 1-1/2" W and 1-1/16" H Chain: 3"
Marks: LILLIAN PINES / STERLING
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Brooch / pin, in the form of a ladies' fan, with pierced details, corrugated surface, and wirework and beaded ornaments.
Size: 2-3/4" W and 1-11/16" H
Marks: LILLIAN PINES / STERLING
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Brooch / pin and matching screw back earrings (3 pieces total), each in the form of a ladies' fan, with pierced details (on the brooch), corrugated surface, and wirework and beaded ornaments. Earrings are unmarked. Pieces have been overly cleaned, removing some of the original oxidation.
Size: Brooch: 2-3/4" W and 1-3/4" H Earrings: 1-5/8" W and 7/8" H
Marks: Brooch: LILLIAN PINES / STERLING
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