
CLIPMATE DUETTE PIN MARKED TRIFARI 1936 ALFRED PHILIPPE FULL
The dove is a nuanced blend of Vermeil which, for the uninitiated, is Sterling combined with 18K Gold and pure Sterling Silver (the rest of the description is contained in full below.

Touch device users, explore by touch or with swipe gestures. Covering all the major designers and styles from the 1920s through the present day, this elegant and stylish guide to costume jewelry features hot collecting trends, and spotlights major designers. Designed in 1936 by Alfred Philippe, it has the patent number. It depicts the dove with the golden ring in its beak immortalized by the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tale, "The Old Woman in the Woods." The story is copied in full below the "Coro Jewelry History and Marks" below for the purposes of clarity (and, maybe for some, nostalgia). When autocomplete results are available use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. Heres a nice TRIFARI rhinestone Clip Mates brooch, which disassembles into two dress clips. The brooch is in excellent condition, and appears to be unworn. This mechanism was patented by Philippe Alfred of Crown Trifari in 1936. According to the documentation (highlighted in red) this "CORO STERLING" in block print signed piece is vintage 1940's, some 80 years old. This rare and wonderful Clipmate duette bird brooch comes apart with a clever mechanism to make two smaller pins. Condition: Coro, the antique and vintage brand responsible for the current piece, has such a long and storied history that, between the letters "C" and "D" in the alphabetical directory of the online source "Researching Costume Jewelry" (documented in RESEARCH below) there is a designation "Coro." Coro is the embodiment of collectible, and this piece is in flawless condition (please consider the illustrations). The Pat Pend mark dates the clips to before the. Illustration number 7 shows the Coro Mark from an earlier piece which pictures the dove complete with the ring in its beak. Marked: Bangle marked Pat No 2061479 dress clips marked 49, Clipmates (one clip), Pat Pend (in the Clipmate channel, the other) Reference: The bangle patent is reproduced below (scroll down), filed July, granted Nov 1936, designer Alfred Philippe, for bracelets holding clipmate dress clips. The Brothers Grimm Dove actually made its first appearance on Coro Jewelry back in 1919. Item: 303898255275 Perfect 1940s "CORO STERLING" Signed Dove with Ring Brooch (Grimm's Fairy Tale). Gustavo Trifari was issued patent 1,878,028 for a Clip Brooch on Septemfor Trifari, Krussman & Fishel, Inc. It was the second version of this clip brooch that really took off. This mechanism, called a Brooch and patented by Alfred Philippe on August 11, 1936, was actually the company’s second invention of this type. Trifari’s first version of the double clip brooch was designed by Gustavo Trifari himself in 1932 (patent number 1,878,028), but Alfred Philippe’s version (patent number 2,050,804) was designed and patented in April 1936 and trademarked CLIP-MATE. Ships to: AMERICAS & many other countries, Trifari’s answer to the Coro Duette was their Clip-Mates.
