Slide # 14
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While Alfred Philippe was busy producing beautiful work for Trifari, another transplant from France was busy producing his designs for his own firm. Like Philippe, Marcel Boucher started his career in precious jewelry, and also worked for Cartier, first in Paris and then in New York after he moved to the US. Before starting his own company in 1937, he worked for another company, Mazer, and while there obtained several patents for mechanisms for use in jewelry. Very few of his designs were patented.

Boucher’s company was considerably smaller than Coro or Trifari but produced outstanding designs and was the maker of many of my favorite pieces – all pre WW II so not part of this slide-show. However, I do have one sterling bow pin, yet another with red stones, all set in open-backs.