Vintage 1940’s Leonore Doskow Handmade Sterling Initials Brooch 6.61g 1 1/4"

Vintage 1940’s Leonore Doskow Handmade Sterling Initials Brooch, 6.61g Length: 1 1/4". One of a kind monogram GDD. Clasp works as it should. No flaws noted. Shipped USPS. Leonore B. Doskow A Bryn Mawr Alumni made decades of jewelry and silver wares. Her pins, necklaces and bracelets are collector's items. The popularity of Doskow's work betrays her humble beginnings as a silversmith. She learned the trade at a summer camp in the 1920s and continued it when her parents gave her jewelry tools. "I just found I evidently had a knack for it," Doskow says. "I never intended to make it my life work." She and her husband owned and operated Leonore Doskow, Inc., selling to upscale stores from 1935 until the 1980s. Doskow first sold her wares out of her home and then as a Bryn Mawr student; the deans allowed her to make jewelry in the chemistry laboratories during the stock market crash in 1929. In 1932, she won a scholarship to study art history at the Sorbonne for a summer. When she returned, she opened a shop on 17th Street in Philadelphia. One of her first customers was Philadelphia Orchestra who came to her studio in response to an advertisement. He ordered a sterling bracelet for $3 and over the next few months commissioned several novelties from her: a gold mirror for Greta Garbo, a copper wastebasket, a ring engraved with the initials M.C., "for whoever he was going with at that time. At the peak of her career she employed 75 people, including high school students on co-ops.