First post here, greetings from Oregon. My Grandfather gave me his Dad's bracelet and I want to find out where he might have gotten it or how old it is. My guess is it's a bracelet from a men's social club or fraternity. There are no other markings and it's not gold I think it is brass.
🔎 UNIDENTIFIED English men's bracelet I.D help
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I doubt this is English. The coats of arms are all French. I don’t immediately recognise all of them but from the left you have the coats of arms for Savoy, then the old French Royal arms, followed by the arms for the city of Paris.
They’re often tagged by sellers as souvenirs from France, but this very similar one (sorry for the poor picture) is marked ‘CORO’ for the Cohn & Rosenberger company founded in New York in 1901 and operating from Providence, Rhode Island from 1929. They adopted the corporate name ‘Coro’ in 1943.
They made inexpensive costume jewellery including bracelets like this with a random assortment of French and French regional coats of arms on enamelled panels. The choice of armorials doesn’t seem to have any particular rationale beyond their decorative appeal.
They also operated in Canada (so perhaps these were aimed at a French-Canadian market) and briefly in England between about 1961-1969. In 1969, 51 percent of Coro’s stock was acquired by the Richton, Intl. Corp., who bought the remaining stock in 1970. By 1979 all the Coro operations had gone bust, except the Canadian division, and that was sold to a South American company in 1992 who also went bust.
I doubt this is English. The coats of arms are all French. I don’t immediately recognise all of them but from the left you have the coats of arms for Savoy, then the old French Royal arms, followed by the arms for the city of Paris.
They’re often tagged by sellers as souvenirs from France, but this very similar one (sorry for the poor picture) is marked ‘CORO’ for the Cohn & Rosenberger company founded in New York in 1901 and operating from Providence, Rhode Island from 1929. They adopted the corporate name ‘Coro’ in 1943.
They made inexpensive costume jewellery including bracelets like this with a random assortment of French and French regional coats of arms on enamelled panels. The choice of armorials doesn’t seem to have any particular rationale beyond their decorative appeal.
They also operated in Canada (so perhaps these were aimed at a French-Canadian market) and briefly in England between about 1961-1969. In 1969, 51 percent of Coro’s stock was acquired by the Richton, Intl. Corp., who bought the remaining stock in 1970. By 1979 all the Coro operations had gone bust, except the Canadian division, and that was sold to a South American company in 1992 who also went bust.
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