SPHINX: 1948-2000
The company was founded in 1948 in the UK. The Sphinx Company was a well-known English jewelery manufactory for the production of finely crafted and beautifully designed jewelery that looked like real jewels.
Sphinx, like many other jewelry manufacturers that reached their development during the Industrial Revolution, also imitated the collections of other respected jewelry artists – only instead of precious metals. The company used gold-plated jewelry alloys, along with high-quality art glass and the best Austrian crystals instead of precious ones. stones. The Sphinx Company’s jewelry is of high quality, made in a modern style, and at affordable prices.
At the English factory in Cheswick, a manufactory team of 200-300 people was engaged in the manufacture of high quality costume jewelry that looked like real jewelry. Jewelry (necklaces, bracelets, pendants, brooches, earrings, rings, and pendants) were made from alloys to match gold or silver. They using aurora borealis rhinestones, colored rhinestones, imitation pearls, and colored glass stones.
The quality of the jewelry produced was very high, so the company has been working since the 60s. began to produce products exclusively to order for brands and stores such as Kenneth Jay Lane, Butler & Wilson, Saks 5th Ave., Neiman Marcus, Bloomingdales. So the products marked with Sphinx were produced no later than the beginning of the 60s.
The Sphinx Company mark:
The jewelry can be recognized by the oval cartouche signed “Sphinx”. Some of the jewelry is marked with a letter and a serial number.
This company’s jewelry has now become collectible since the company went out of business in the late 1990s.
