Vtg Antique Art Silver Shop Baroque Pearl Sterling Silver Bar Pin Brooch

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Vintage Antique Art Silver Shop Chicago Baroque Pearl Hammered Sterling Silver Bar Pin Brooch
C clasp.  Excellent condition!  The pearl has a blueish silver hue.
In 1912, after moving from their native Hungary,
Edmund Boker
and
Ernest Gould
formed the Chicago Art Silver Shop. Both had worked as silversmiths in a Budapest factory making objects for European royal families.
Boker initially moonlighted at Chicago's Lebolt & Company to help bankroll the new store.  In 1918 they shortened the name to the Art Silver Shop, and when business slackened in 1934 they changed their business to focus on wholesale jewelry and renamed it the Art Metal Studios.
Boker did the designing and repousse work, while Gould fashioned the larger pieces.   Boker and Gould's own work was highly regarded, displaying a distinctive European Art Nouveau influence.