Pretty Vintage Hobé Black / White Glass & Crystal Demi Parure (Necklace and hot Earrings) - A Fun Set with Flair! 540

This is a retro vintage Hobé necklace and earrings set featuring white milk glass beads, matte black glass beads and crystal bicone beads.

The two-strand chain-strung necklace measures 18" at the shortest strand plus a 4-1/2" milk glass beaded extender.

The wired bead earrings measure 1" in diameter and carry the traditional Hobé comfort rollers.

All pieces of this set are marked Hobé and everything is in very good vintage condition with some very minor wear due to its age. This is truly a beautiful retro set!

I thank you for your visit and please check back with RhinestoneCafé - I will be adding new Hobé items regularly! Also feel free to ask questions, and make an offer!

Please note that the international shipping cost listed is an estimate and could be LOWER or higher than the $13.95 listed, depending on the country it's going to. I am happy to discuss the packaging - should you rather have a bubble wrap envelope (instead of a container), and have the items bubble wrapped instead of packed in a jewelry ‘box', the shipping costs can be reduced by quite a substantial amount.


About Hobé From Collectors' Weekly:
"Hobé Cie was founded in 1887 by goldsmith Jacques Hobé, but when costume-jewelry collectors think of Hobé, they picture the tasselled and beaded necklaces made by Jacques' son, William, who established an American offshoot of the company in 1927. That put Hobé at the beginning of the American costume-jewelry boom between the two world wars.

In fact, some scholars believe that Hobé actually had a hand in the phrase “costume jewelry” itself. After the younger Hobé landed in New York, but before he started his company, one of the his first assignments was to make costumes and jewelry for the "Ziegfeld Follies." According to some historians, Florenz Ziegfeld described the jewelry that accompanied Hobé's costumes as costume jewelry.

Hobé's showbiz origins served the company well. By the 1940s and '50s, Hollywood stars such as Bette Davis and Ava Gardner were wearing Hobé. Especially prized today are the floral pins of that era, which featured tight clusters of vermeil petals. Earlier Hobé pieces that remain popular with collectors include filigreed bracelets and pins, some of which featured Victorian-style portraits or Japanese netsuke-like figures as focal points." http://www.collectorsweekly.com/costume-jewelry/hobe