Posted 10 years ago
lisad
(15 items)
this penguin i found in a jewelry box i bought
marked on the bottom of the foot "MERRIN"
there are markings on the back i can't make out i was told it should say 18k and a serial number.
i believe the stone is jasper.
has anyone had any jewelry signed MERRIN ??
IS THIS CONSIDERED TO BE A JELLY BELLY ???
Jelly belly is the name most people use for transparent/see through "stones" - usually lucite or glass.
Joseph Merrin, who founded a prominent Fifth Avenue jewelry company, died Oct. 3 at home in Manhattan. He was 91 years old.
He died of a stroke, his family said.
Mr. Merrin came to New York from the Ukraine as a teen-ager in 1917 and soon became a jeweler's apprentice. In 1927 he opened the Merrin Jewelry Company at 530 Madison Avenue, which claimed to be the first store on Madison with air-conditioning. The company pioneered in the sale of jewelry by mail and in 1975 moved to its present location at 724 Fifth Avenue near 56th Street.
so this is NOT a jelly belly...?
but has the basic same design is there a name for this style??
The name for this cut of stone is Cabochon.