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wev Moderator Posts: 4121 |
posted 12-27-2009 04:21 PM
  
No, it's not what you think. I have a friend who is writing a short story and needs to know what a Tiffany silver brooch would have sold for c 1962. Any idea? IP: Logged |
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Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 |
posted 12-27-2009 04:34 PM
CPI $1.00 in 1962 is $7.12 today using the 2008 Consumer Price Index IP: Logged |
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Dale Posts: 2132 |
posted 12-28-2009 12:33 AM
Currently there is but one sterling brooch listed at Tiffany's website. It is a Paloma Picasso priced at $350. Using Scott's CPI multiplier, that gives a 1962 price of about $50. I was in HS at the time and remember my gold class ring was about $20. Silver was then at the same price it had been 100 years earlier due to government price controls. Unless someone comes up with an old catalog or receipt, we are sort of stuck with $50. IP: Logged |
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dragonflywink Posts: 993 |
posted 12-28-2009 06:04 AM
Fifty dollars seems a bit high for 1962, believe they were offering simple 18 Karat brooches for just a bit more than that. Were they even selling sterling jewelry back then? I can't seem to recall seeing any before the mid '70s, my friend Wendy became near hysterical when she she lost her silver Peretti Bean necklace, believe her parents spent about $40.00. I, on the other hand, still have my silver Peretti Teardrop knock-off all these years later (wish it was the real thing). ~Cheryl IP: Logged |
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Richard Kurtzman Moderator Posts: 768 |
posted 12-29-2009 07:43 PM
Cheryl, I think you're onto something. I don't have a 1962 Tiffany catalog, but I do have some early 1950's Tiffany catalogs. These show only gold jewelry. There is no sterling jewelry mentioned or displayed. Below is a picture from a 1955 catalog showing some gold jewelry including some brooches. It was possible to buy a 14kt. gold brooch for as little as $25. So wev, depending on how elaborate or large your friend's sterling brooch is to be, I would guess that somewhere around $20 would not be out of the question provided that Tiffany was selling silver brooches. Perhaps to be on the safe side he should make the brooch 14kt. gold. I hopes this helps. IP: Logged |
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dragonflywink Posts: 993 |
posted 12-30-2009 12:06 AM
Well this is serendipitous, one of my favorite pairs of earrings (and the only non-pierced) are large, heavy 1940s-50s 14K gold wings made by George Schuler/Preformed Parts. They bear a conjoined PP mark and the 1947 patent #2423905 for the adjustable clips. I've researched them casually over the years, never ran across mine but have found several references to Tiffany retailing their 14 and 18 karat earrings and brooches. Now I look at the 1955 catalog page that Richard posted and "N." is a 14K clip that matches my earrings: Thanks! ~Cheryl
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wev Moderator Posts: 4121 |
posted 12-30-2009 03:20 PM
Kudos to all -- excellent information and assistance; thank you. IP: Logged |
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dragonflywink Posts: 993 |
posted 12-30-2009 04:49 PM
1964 advertisement for 18K flower pins, the one at top was $66.00: ~Cheryl IP: Logged |
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Ulysses Dietz Moderator Posts: 1265 |
posted 01-02-2010 12:58 PM
Consensus seems to be taht in 1962 Tiffany hadn't yet started marketing silver jewelry--although they did in the 1930s and during WWII. Curatorially, I'd say go with the $25 gold brooch, or make it somewhere other than Tiffany's. Sam Kramer, Ed Wiener or Paul Lobel would have sold silver brooches in the early 1960s for $15. IP: Logged |
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wev Moderator Posts: 4121 |
posted 01-02-2010 06:04 PM
Good suggestions, but got to have that robin's egg blue box. The ladies will just have to get gold instead of silver and bear the guilt as best they can. . . IP: Logged |
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ahwt Posts: 2334 |
posted 01-03-2010 06:42 PM
I was doing a search for Joseph E. Straker, Jr and came across  The Jewelers Circular. If Goggle has all the Circulars in their data base it may help.IP: Logged |
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ahwt Posts: 2334 |
posted 01-04-2010 02:44 PM
Scott, Thanks for correcting the link to the Jewelers' Circular. Art IP: Logged |
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