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Lisner Jewelry
As costume jewelry designers go, we don't know a lot about Lisner.
Although not well documented, we do know costume jewelry design firm
D. Lisner & Co was founded in New York by David Lisner and his son,
Sydney in 1904 and Lisner continued it's costume jewelry operation until
the mid 1980s. The first 30 years found Lisner selling unmarked
costume jewelry and distributing it for other companies. In the 1930's the
company became the authorized dealer for Elisa Schiaparelli, and began
using it's own name. Lisner changed it's mark several times between Art
Deco style lettering, all capital letters, and cursive letters on it's jewellery
pieces. Marked with a copyright symbol after 1955. Lisner made
costume jewelry for such a long period of time, it's difficult to date their
pieces. Stamping dies were used year after year.
Much of Lisner's costume jewelry was made in the 1950's and 1960's
using colored Lucite molded into shapes. The Richelieu jewelry line
being some of their finest pieces. Lisner worked nature and geometric
themes including leaves, berries, and flowers into their pieces frequently.
While some would argue Lisner jewelry is similar to Coro jewelry, I'm
going to argue that point, while although they did have a lower end line,
they also worked mostly with very good and above average workmanship.
With Lisner's exquisite use of rhinestones, molded glass, aurora Borealis
rhinestones, quality workmanship, and design it is easy to differentiate
between Coro and Lisner costume jewelry. Production of their jewelry
stopped sometime between the late 1970s and mid 1980s. Among their
most notable sets are the Lucite oak leaves set; especially in red,
produced in the early 1960's. Modern jewelry collectors are becoming
increasingly interested in Lisner costume jewelry, after showing little
interest in the jewelry until the late 1990s.
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