Crown Trifari but is it a certain designer?

Hi guys,
His is made extremely well. Wondering if this could be one of the higher end pieces of crown Trifari I see the copyright mark is from from 55-69. I’d this anyone special? Thank you for your help. Happy Sunday!!

 

Violets, purdy.

Debora

 

It has the tall crown above the T, placing it in the early end of your date range

 

Any guesses on who might have designed this?

 

Hard to say if it’s a coveted Alfred Philippe piece or not, as they were not signed by the designer. Although he was still with Trifari in the later years, he wasn’t necessarily THE main designer anymore. His early stuff (big bucks) is from the pre ©️ marking era and the Pat Pending / Sterling Pat Pending (WWII) era

the ©️ mark began in 1955 as a result of Trifari winning a lawsuit against Charel over a copied design. Previous to this, jewelry companies would patent their designs, an expensive and long process that allowed other companies to copy designs during the “pending” process. That’s why they would mark “Pat pend” or “Pat applied for”, to try and distinguish their designs & continue producing while the patent application went through the process. Due to the nature of keeping up with the “new” trends, many designs never did get produced after the Pat number was finally issued, leaving only a limited supply of “Pat pend” in existence

after the Trifari lawsuit, companies began copywriting designs instead of patenting. Copywriting was quicker, cheaper and much easier to defend. Coincidentally, this is about the time that mass production started really catching on. These combined factors make it very easy to identify pre ©️ as being more desirable and valuable

the really good stuff, you just “know”.

that’s not to take away from your piece, as it is very nice. It’s just from the next “generation” of Trifari

 

@JewelryPicker Thank you so much for the great information!