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 Magazine advertising from years past is one of the most exciting reference sources for attributing and dating vintage jewelry. These wonderful old ads illustrate how jewelry was worn, when it was made, and how it coordinated with the styles of the time.

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JOAN CRAWFORD 1940
She is wearing a Flato three-piece rococo clip set designed by Verdura.

Joan Crawford 1941
She wears a colored floral brooch.
 

Ann Southern 1941. 
This pin is shaped like a door knocker.

Ann Southern 1941
 This brooch looks amazingly like the Staret bleeding heart pin at the right... >>>
 

STARET bleeding heart brooch circa 1940.    #S18228

Ann Sheridan  1941
Beautiful hair and an jewelry hair ornament.
 

Anita Louise 1941
Jewels ornament her hair, neck, shoulders, ears, wrist and hands!

Perc Westmore (makeup artist) and Geraldine Fitzgerald  1941
She is being outfitted with jeweled dress and hair clips.

Geraldine Fitzgerald   1941
In addition to her clips, she wears a jeweled cuff.

Margaret Lindsay 1941
Stylishly wearing a jeweled bird aigrette in her hair and a Deco style necklace and bracelet.

Joan Bennett  1941
 Her brooch is reminiscent of the Staret lily pin.

Jeanette MacDonald 1941
Doesn't that look like a Coro "Quivering Camellias" duette?
 

Claudette Colbert  1941
 On her lapel she wears an enameled chatelaine watch.

Merle Oberon 1941
Wearing a brooch that looks like jeweled berries.

Carmen Miranda 1941
In her usual exuberant glittering costume! Author Ginger Moro says, "I think a lot of Carmen Miranda's over-the-top jewelry was designed by Joseff".

Vivien Leigh  1941

 

Anita Louise 1941
Wearing a four-strand twisted chain hair ornament in her 40's hairdo.

Bette Davis  1938

 

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