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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 874942, member: 2844"]They are very different in execution. Your bookends are cute, but not cold painted bronze and no handcarved ivory face. Yours are 'after' the Gerdago girl.</p><p><br /></p><p>Gerdago (Gerda Irro-Gottstein or Gottschlich, also Gerda Iro) was a costume designer.</p><p>Maybe the original is not by Gerdago, but the girl is wearing one of her early designs, probably for a cabaret theatre production. In which case the signature could be the name of the piece.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don't know if the Sissi-films with Romy Schneider as Elisabeth of Austria (and Hungary) were ever shown in the US, Gerdago designed the costumes for those:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://s14-eu5.startpage.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F4RIATVRL7Yo%2Fmaxresdefault.jpg&sp=947abd02ed40bea3123e8778dd54e0f2&anticache=621553" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 874942, member: 2844"]They are very different in execution. Your bookends are cute, but not cold painted bronze and no handcarved ivory face. Yours are 'after' the Gerdago girl. Gerdago (Gerda Irro-Gottstein or Gottschlich, also Gerda Iro) was a costume designer. Maybe the original is not by Gerdago, but the girl is wearing one of her early designs, probably for a cabaret theatre production. In which case the signature could be the name of the piece. I don't know if the Sissi-films with Romy Schneider as Elisabeth of Austria (and Hungary) were ever shown in the US, Gerdago designed the costumes for those: [IMG]https://s14-eu5.startpage.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F4RIATVRL7Yo%2Fmaxresdefault.jpg&sp=947abd02ed40bea3123e8778dd54e0f2&anticache=621553[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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