Today's Vintage Bling - Weiss Smoke Gray Brooch

Weiss jewelry is known for their well made designs with great attention to detail and use of lovely stones. They are at the top of the list of vintage jewelry designers for those who collection high end rhinestone costume jewelry.

Today's vintage bling is a lovely Weiss brooch which is subtle in design and which would be perfect for many fashion color choices.

The brooch is set in silver tone metal and features a stunning layered design with prong set smoke gray rhinestones in a rising circle setting. The top layer of stones also features small silver tone leaves which are covered with clear pave rhinestones for a special and very glittering effect.

The brooch has a built in pin back and cartouche with the word Weiss. It is in excellent condition and is available from my Ruby Lane store - The Finishing Touch Vintage Jewelry. Priced at $75, it won't last long. You can even make me a reasonable offer.

Vintage Jewelry Designer - Who am I?

Let's have some fun today. This is another in my ongoing guessing game blog about vintage jewelry designers. I'll give you some clues and pictures and you see if you can guess which designer it is. Ready?

Here are your clues:

• Dates of operation were 1942 - 1971
• Company founded in New York by a designer who originally worked for Coro during the 1930s
• Imported most of his stones from Austria for the lead content
• Had a highly collectible Christmas tree line which was made in Germany
• Made many long stemmed enamel flower designs
• Highly sought after and collectible designer today

Here are some pictures of my designs:

I am considered a high end designer and my pieces are very collectible, although not exhorbitantly expensive. For more information and the answer to today's riddle, you can go to this designer page of the resource library on my website Vintage Jewelry Lane. (answer is also shown reading backwards at the bottom of this blog post.)

I'll be doing more of these riddles over the next weeks and months. Have fun with the series. ANSWER: (read it backwards): ssieW