Is this a Mikimoto brooch

[Pearl Dreams]

Just curious, can you look at this part with a magnifier and see if it is a stamped metal mark of some sort?

 

[lldd]

Just curious, can you look at this part with a magnifier and see if it is a stamped metal mark of some sort?


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I have tried but can’t really get any closer but it doesn’t look like anything intentional to me

 

[lldd]

I have tried but can’t really get any closer but it doesn’t look like anything intentional to me

 

[lldd]

I thought you might like to see how the border ring is a double ring, does that tell us anything?

 

[lldd]

Just curious, can you look at this part with a magnifier and see if it is a stamped metal mark of some sort?


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These are the earrings and necklace that she always considered a “set”, she has also a graduated strand of white pearls with the same background story, exact same clasp but no M marks either

 

[Pearl Dreams]

Given that the pearls are baroque and lower grade, and that there are no marks to indicate brand, I don't think any of them are Mikimoto.

 

[BWeaves]

I agree with Pearl Dreams.

 

[A Breaker]

This is about the first brooch....of Bab4444..... I have seen some fakes and need to get my frustration out! So many "famous" jewelry is copied and it has been done as far back as ancient Egypt & Rome. My guess is that this Bab444 brooch is a copy. One thing to think about is that in the 1930-40's in the US there was lots of copies of jewelry, especially brooches and patents were starting to be used on jewelry. This idea of patenting or signing seemed to take a while to make the rounds to other countries. K. Mikimoto was very early to realize that signing jewelry was important. But there have always been the tendency to for jewelers to copy each other when a design catches on. We still have this today with China selling "famous" Trifari brooches on Temu & Alibaba...They look close, but the signature is not quite as crisp and clean as it should be. There is also a tradition in Mexico of copied jewelry in silver. A year ago I was researching Tiffany silver and found on Etsy Shops (based in China) selling Tiffany silver designs with the same marketing as Tiffany: Handmade, high quality.

I’ve seen the M as an engraving and also raised. I’m more confused about the S and it coming up 18k. Baffled!

A note: Silver 925 will turn bright blue with 18k acid...so it is testing 925. Most Mikimoto brooches of that era were Rhodium plated..so they don't test 925.