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<p>[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 3928506, member: 111"]Haven't been around much lately, but just wanted to add a bit - while yours would not date earlier since Maison Behar claims first use of that trademark in 1962, pieces by the same manufacturer may date a bit earlier, but would think a few years past WWII at earliest...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Though finding the trademark info was simple, kind of surprised there's still no other info easily available online - I'd researched this mark years ago when selling a bee brooch, my notes still exist, but they're on an external hard-drive with salvaged files from my first laptop (shopping for my fourth now), and I apparently dropped the hard-drive in a storage box several years ago, and frustratingly can't find it (lots of good stuff on it, too). To the best of my recollection, I had a number of print ads from the 1920s to the '60s, as well as clips from trade publications - the later retailer ads mentioned 'Maison Behar' as provider of similar enameled brooches pictured.</p><p><br /></p><p>Morning Glory's site shows pages from a circa 1965 Caviness catalog including two pages of the enamel brooches (unfortunately, no butterfly like yours) - some of same pieces in the catalog, as well as some similar, are also found with other marks, or without any importer's mark at all. The Fifth Avenue addresses of Maison Behar and Alice Caviness were quite close to each other, not difficult to imagine the wholesale rep visiting both, as well as other firms Look near the bottom of this page for those two catalog page images:</p><p><a href="https://www.morninggloryjewelry.com/articles/vintage-jewelry-ads/caviness-catalogue/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.morninggloryjewelry.com/articles/vintage-jewelry-ads/caviness-catalogue/" rel="nofollow">https://www.morninggloryjewelry.com/articles/vintage-jewelry-ads/caviness-catalogue/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is the bee brooch that I had, shown in the catalog (sorry, poor enlargement):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]322157[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This one is marked 'ALICE CAVINESS':</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/766975432/lovely-little-buzy-bee-alice-caviness?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=alice+caviness+bee&ref=sr_gallery-1-4&organic_search_click=1&frs=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/766975432/lovely-little-buzy-bee-alice-caviness?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=alice+caviness+bee&ref=sr_gallery-1-4&organic_search_click=1&frs=1" rel="nofollow">https://www.etsy.com/listing/766975432/lovely-little-buzy-bee-alice-caviness?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=alice+caviness+bee&ref=sr_gallery-1-4&organic_search_click=1&frs=1</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]322156[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This one is marked 'M-BE':</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-insect-pin-sterling-enamel-429448609" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-insect-pin-sterling-enamel-429448609" rel="nofollow">https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-insect-pin-sterling-enamel-429448609</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]322155[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This one is only marked 'GERMANY':</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.rubylane.com/item/1311637-3324/Sterling-Silver-Guilloche-Enameled-Bee-Brooch" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.rubylane.com/item/1311637-3324/Sterling-Silver-Guilloche-Enameled-Bee-Brooch" rel="nofollow">https://www.rubylane.com/item/1311637-3324/Sterling-Silver-Guilloche-Enameled-Bee-Brooch</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]322158[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 3928506, member: 111"]Haven't been around much lately, but just wanted to add a bit - while yours would not date earlier since Maison Behar claims first use of that trademark in 1962, pieces by the same manufacturer may date a bit earlier, but would think a few years past WWII at earliest... Though finding the trademark info was simple, kind of surprised there's still no other info easily available online - I'd researched this mark years ago when selling a bee brooch, my notes still exist, but they're on an external hard-drive with salvaged files from my first laptop (shopping for my fourth now), and I apparently dropped the hard-drive in a storage box several years ago, and frustratingly can't find it (lots of good stuff on it, too). To the best of my recollection, I had a number of print ads from the 1920s to the '60s, as well as clips from trade publications - the later retailer ads mentioned 'Maison Behar' as provider of similar enameled brooches pictured. Morning Glory's site shows pages from a circa 1965 Caviness catalog including two pages of the enamel brooches (unfortunately, no butterfly like yours) - some of same pieces in the catalog, as well as some similar, are also found with other marks, or without any importer's mark at all. The Fifth Avenue addresses of Maison Behar and Alice Caviness were quite close to each other, not difficult to imagine the wholesale rep visiting both, as well as other firms Look near the bottom of this page for those two catalog page images: [URL]https://www.morninggloryjewelry.com/articles/vintage-jewelry-ads/caviness-catalogue/[/URL] This is the bee brooch that I had, shown in the catalog (sorry, poor enlargement): [ATTACH=full]322157[/ATTACH] This one is marked 'ALICE CAVINESS': [URL]https://www.etsy.com/listing/766975432/lovely-little-buzy-bee-alice-caviness?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=alice+caviness+bee&ref=sr_gallery-1-4&organic_search_click=1&frs=1[/URL] [ATTACH=full]322156[/ATTACH] This one is marked 'M-BE': [URL]https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-insect-pin-sterling-enamel-429448609[/URL] [ATTACH=full]322155[/ATTACH] This one is only marked 'GERMANY': [URL]https://www.rubylane.com/item/1311637-3324/Sterling-Silver-Guilloche-Enameled-Bee-Brooch[/URL] [ATTACH=full]322158[/ATTACH] ~Cheryl[/QUOTE]
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