Miriam Haskell Venetian Glass Bib

Rare, collectible Miriam Haskell bib necklace of signature baroque pearls, sapphire, ruby, chartreuse and mustard Gripoix Glass poured glass beads ...

Miriam Haskell Gold Bubble Bib made of dozens of gold plated resin dumb bells which interlock to form tendrils of different lengths on this massive...

Bill Blass glass beaded tiered bib necklace c 1970 The stylish necklace is designed with three graduated rows of heavy gauge gilt metal chains Interspersed within the graduate...

Around 1930, Miriam Haskell's first designer Frank Hess designed this Russian-gilt brass ribbed-chain link bib necklace featuring 27 strands of varying length each wired to aqua faux-turquoise pressed glass beads with characteristic gold pronged-bell caps and thumbless spring-ring clasp. After the Great Depression began in the United States in 1929, to keep her popular European-style costume jewelry affordable among fashionable ladies, Haskell began using less expensive imported handcrafted glass beads, which included Czech and German pressed glass. Initially when she opened her handmade ready-to-wear costume-jewelry business in 1926 in New York City's downtown McAlpin Hotel, she had used only the finest Parisian glass beads and findings like French couturiers including Coco Chanel who soon became her competition. which Haskell promoted with the French name of her first boutique Le Bijou de L'Heure. If interested in assembling a suitable set of early Haskell-Hess pieces with similar aesthetics, please see our other listings for the aqua glass-and-enamel scalloped button clip earrings and the "peacock" coil arm-band bracelet with Parisian lampworked glass, faceted crystal, painted galalith beads, and cupped rose...