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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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Burns, Cherie, author.
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René Boivin (Firm)
Brooches -- France -- History -- 20th century.
Brooches -- Collectors and collecting -- History -- 20th century.
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Diving for starfish ...
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Diving for starfish : the jeweler, the actress, the heiress, and one of the world's most alluring pieces of jewelry / Cherie Burns.
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Burns, Cherie, author.
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2018.
Subjects
René Boivin (Firm)
Brooches -- France -- History -- 20th century.
Brooches -- Collectors and collecting -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9781250056207 (hardcover) :
1250056209 (hardcover)
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230 pages ; 22 cm
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First edition.
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In the mid 1930s, in the workroom of Parisian jeweler Boivin, a jewelry designer created one of the most coveted pieces of jewelry in the world: the famous starfish pin. Created out of gold and encrusted with 71 cabochon rubies and 241 small amethysts, the starfish was distinctive because its five rays were articulated, meaning that they could curl and conform to the bustline or shoulder of the women who wore it. The House of Boivin made three of them. After seeing it in the showroom of a Manhattan jewelry merchant, Burns set off on a journey to find out all she could about the elusive pins and the women who owned them.
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Hawaii Kai Public Library
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739.278 Bu
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