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<p>[QUOTE="spirit-of-shiloh, post: 23185, member: 32"]OK Lucille, I just found this so what I read a few years ago is incorrect. Still,I wonder why a pair of Trifari earrings has just one of the pair signed?</p><p><br /></p><p>Also I have/had pieces with and without the crown above the T.</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5"><b>All Vintage Trifari Jewelry is Signed</b></font></p><p>There is no such thing as "unsigned vintage Trifari." I can't tell you how often I run across a listing that claims that the piece is an unsigned Trifari. Trifari signed virtually all of their pieces, and even ran ads letting people know that if a piece was not signed, it was not Trifari. There were lesser manufacturers who did copy some Trifari designs, but Trifari was pretty diligent about protecting their designs and patented most of them until the copyright law was modified in 1955 to allow jewelry designs to be copyrighted.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.ebay.com/gds/Trifari-Vintage-Jewelry-Identification-and-Marks-/10000000015368028/g.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.com/gds/Trifari-Vintage-Jewelry-Identification-and-Marks-/10000000015368028/g.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ebay.com/gds/Trifari-Vintage-Jewelry-Identification-and-Marks-/10000000015368028/g.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="spirit-of-shiloh, post: 23185, member: 32"]OK Lucille, I just found this so what I read a few years ago is incorrect. Still,I wonder why a pair of Trifari earrings has just one of the pair signed? Also I have/had pieces with and without the crown above the T. [SIZE=5][B]All Vintage Trifari Jewelry is Signed[/B][/SIZE] There is no such thing as "unsigned vintage Trifari." I can't tell you how often I run across a listing that claims that the piece is an unsigned Trifari. Trifari signed virtually all of their pieces, and even ran ads letting people know that if a piece was not signed, it was not Trifari. There were lesser manufacturers who did copy some Trifari designs, but Trifari was pretty diligent about protecting their designs and patented most of them until the copyright law was modified in 1955 to allow jewelry designs to be copyrighted. [url]http://www.ebay.com/gds/Trifari-Vintage-Jewelry-Identification-and-Marks-/10000000015368028/g.html[/url][/QUOTE]
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