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Exquisite 2in. Crown Trifari Gold Plated Eagle Brooch Crafted in a Rich Brushed Finish with Polished Accents and a Ruby Red Rhinestone Eye. Rollover 'C' Style Closure. Excellent Condition. Very Nice Detail. Lovely Collectible Marked Piece.
**>>'Note ' , Trifanium is not the name for Trifari's plating; however, Trifari did develope its own plating solutions for both gold and rhodium colors. The gold plating solution contained real gold and was applied much thicker than industry standards. While some gold jewelry had a finish 1 millionth of an inch thick, Trifari's was 8 millionths of an inch thick. Rhodium, a rare metal found in conjunction with platinum ore, is difficult to work with but provides a beautiful, non-tarnishing finish. It is sometimes used in as a plating over sterling silver because of its non-tarnishing property.
Trifari felt that their plating solutions were superior to others on the market, and made them available to other jewelry companies. Rather than keep these solutions to itself, Trifari was more interested in raising product standards for the industry. Some of the companies that Mr. Wolf recalls selling these plating solutions to: Speidel, S. Rappaport Co., Brier Mfg., and Napier.
These plating solutions were quite expensive, each bottle had a stock number and complete records were kept of every bottle sold. It came to the attention of Mr. Wolf that one customer's orders had doubled, so he called to investigate. He was informed that production had not increased, and there was no logical explanation for the increase in plating solution purchases. Mr. Wolf devised a "sting" operation where someone was sent out to buy bottles of plating solution on the open market. The bottles purchased turned out to be ones that had been sold to the suspect account. An employee had been siphoning off the extra bottles and selling them on his own!