Boucher Vintage Brooch with Baguette and Round Crystals Signed and Numbered

This is a very classic design for a brooch from this period. It is silver plated and is saturated with the finest crystals. It measures approximately 2 inckes long and is 1 inch tall at the highest points. It is in excellent condition and has no missing stones or significant signs of wear. Designed by Marcel Boucher a highly collectable designer of fashion costume jewelry which was modeled after some of the finer pieces of jewelry of its time. Marcel Boucher was born in Paris in 1898. After the "Great War," he became a mold-maker and apprentice designer at Cartier, one of France's most prestigious jewelry houses. In the early 1920s, he transferred to Cartier in New York City. When the depression hit, the demand for fine jewelry waned, and Marcel found work at Mazer Bros., jewelers who specialized in affordable copies of high-end jewelry. He became fascinated with the apparently limitless design possibilities of costume jewelry, and, in 1937, Marcel and Arthur Halberstadt founded "Marcel Boucher Ltd. Novelty Jewelry," a successful partnership with Marcel in charge of design and manufacturing and Arthur sales and financial operations. In 1944, they changed the company name to "Marcel Boucher & Cie."