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Please use arrows to navigate or the ESC key to return to gallery. Nell Schepps as painted by Paul Trebilcock in the 1940s. Original drawings of the iconic Three Link Bracelet from the archives, c. 1945 Schepps jewelry was regularly featured on the covers of Vogue magazine in the 1930s to 40s. The Duchess of Windsor owned a pair of cultured-pearl ear clips designed as a cluster with dimaonds scattered between the pearls. A photo by John Rawlings, showing a model wearing Schepps jewelry. This photo of Nell and Seaman taking younger daughter Patricia to boarding school at Mont Choisi (Lausanne, Switzerland) in 1927 was made into a picture postcard. The back is hand written by Schepps' older daughter Jane. Patricia later said, "Daddy's jewelry was something outrageous." A photo by John Rawlings, showing a model wearing the famed Schepps Three Link Bracelet with ruby, sapphire, emerald, and diamond, Vogue 1943. The Seaman Schepps salon in 1944. Oversize was in vogue when these bracelets in the "barbaric" style were created, c. 1935 and 1940. To celebrate the centenary of Seaman Schepps in 2004, the Museum of Art & Design in New York mounted a retrospective of Schepps' work. The bubbly colorful jewels were set against a minimal backdrop designed by Massimo and Lella Vignelli. Art deco-style clip brooch of crystalline cabochon rubies with diamonds in white gold on an original receipt from Schepps's store on 778 Sixth Avenue, c. 1928. The bracelets with engraved emeralds and rubies with diamonds are among the earliest known jewelry by Schepps, shown with the receipt dated June 5, 1931. Schepps applied his whimsical stylings to the nécessaire, or vanity case, popular accessories during the art deco period. The case at left belonged to Marguerite Wenner-Gren, c. 1945. The butterfly powder compact is shown with the original drawing, c. 1945. Originally made for Marguerite Wenner-Gren, the opera singer who became the wife of Swedish industrialist and Electrolux founder Axel Wenner-Gren. This bamboo section bracelet, c. 1945, is shown with the original drawing. The favored cabochon sapphire from Schepps's repertoire is combined with diamonds to create this flexible necklace, as shot on model Eniko Mihalik for W magazine.

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