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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 11175390, member: 5833&quot;]Hello, CVirtue, if you&#039;re still out there.&nbsp; I&#039;m the originator of this thread, but have been on hiatus.&nbsp; As far as I know, I&#039;m the first person to really take an interest in this line of products and to link them with one another, which sort of makes me the world expert.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, maddeningly, I have never found a single solid fact about the manufacturer.&nbsp; In <a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/appraisals/fake-ew-wyon-plaques/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/appraisals/fake-ew-wyon-plaques/" rel="nofollow">the Antiques Roadshow segment</a>, where someone brought in a couple of the Wyon plaques, the expert tells them they were being made in England in the 1960s.&nbsp; I do not know how he was able to determine this.&nbsp; A manufacturer&#039;s catalogue would be a handy thing to have, but it seems to me they took pains not to be identified.</p><p><br /></p><p>In some respects the operation reminds me of the original Incolay Studios, started, in the 1960s, by a polymer chemist husband and an artistic wife.&nbsp; These also use what could be novel and proprietary materials &amp; methods coupled with a very savvy sense of what would hold popular appeal.&nbsp; Who knows?&nbsp; Perhaps they saw themselves as competing with Incolay, whose &#039;stone&#039; does not accurately mimic anything in nature, while our subject&#039;s &#039;marble&#039; fools people all the time.&nbsp; Did they draw some inspiration from the decorative items, including some of the same Wyon plaques, made by Henry Elkington in the 19th century?&nbsp; In which direction did influence with Henryk Winograd flow?</p><p><br /></p><p>You are right to note that the process could not use a single rigid mold to produce Nouveau Lady.&nbsp; One would need to be able to compare at least several examples to see whether undercut areas show the variation of hand work or are identical, indicating use of a mold.&nbsp; They cranked out an awful lot of her.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even the AR appraiser admits these pieces are of very high quality.&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure I have ever seen a Nouveau Lady brooch that did not have a sterling frame.&nbsp; This detail is part of what makes people see her as &#039;real&#039;.&nbsp; However, I have to doubt whether your red stones are garnet, although of course I have no way to rule it out.</p><p><br /></p><p>I appreciate that you have contributed to the info available on line regarding the nature of these pieces.&nbsp; Sometimes I feel like a voice crying in the wilderness.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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