Vintage gold tone Queensbury pendant from Avon's Victorian Revival collection.

Description: Vintage gold tone Queensbury pendant from Avon's Victorian Revival collection. The heart shape pendant features an oval purple stone with rhinestone and pearl accents. The pendant hangs from a 24” gold tone round link chain with a spring ring closure. The necklace is marked “AVON”. Please see the pictures as they are part of the description, colors may vary slightly. $30 or Best OfferSold Exactly As ShownOverall condition is Excellent Free Standard Shipping. (No international Shipping) Avon's roots as a perfume company go back to 1886, when David H. McConnell founded the California Perfume Company in New York City and, with the help of a clever businesswoman named Persis Foster Eames Albee, he developed a multi-level marketing business type that empowered women to work for themselves, selling fragrances and toiletries to other women across the United States. But the company, renamed Avon Products, Inc., in 1938, didn't produce costume jewelry until 1963. At that point, McConnell's door-to-door business had grown to a giant cosmetics corporation, using the slogan "Avon Calling," with thousands of "Avon Lady" sales representatives wielding product samples and company mail-order catalogs around the globe. The first Avon costume jewelry pieces were not offered for sale but sent to customers as a free gift or premium when they purchased a certain amount of cosmetics or toiletries. In 1965, Avon sold a handful of jewelry pieces, but most of the Avon jewelry from this period was sold packaged with a perfume or other cosmetic product. An early Avon jewelry collection, first released in March 1967, was named The Precious Pretenders. It featured a necklace and clip-on earrings with sparkling rhinestones and filigreed metal covered in gold-leaf that gave the set the look of fine jewelry. Because the customers were so fond of this costume jewelry set, in 1971, jewelry got its own section in the Avon catalog. As Avon started out in the scent business, naturally some of the first Avon necklace pendants, rings, and brooches held solid or liquid perfume, a fad that was popular in the 1970s. Early materials for Avon jewelry included trendy plastics like Lucite, thermosets, and resin, as well as gold-tone metal and glass rhinestones. In 1975, Avon was the world's biggest costume-jewelry producer. In addition to women's jewelry like pins, earrings, necklaces, bracelets, watches, and rings, Avon designers also created jewelry for men.

Price: 30 USD

Location: Gallatin, Tennessee

End Time: 2025-02-06T15:26:03.000Z

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