Vintage high quality Hobé Demi Parure of Two-Tone Blue Navette and Round Stones (Two-Piece Set Necklace & Earrings) 109

high quality This is a gorgeous and unusual Hobé demi parure consisting of a dangle necklace and star-shaped earrings.

All pieces carry the same stones and beads which are an unusual but gorgeous mix of blue tones, what I describe as moonstone ocean blue (navettes) and arctic blue (round dangle graduating beads). The former are prong set into the body of the necklace whereas the latter beads are screwed into filigree caps and dangle below. The necklace measures 17-1/2" including the 3-3/4" beaded extender. The star-shaped earrings measure just over 3/4" in length and diameter.

This is a beautiful set and would be a valuable addition to any collection!

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