Sold Hettie Carnegie Aurora Borealis Bead Necklace and Earrings

Earrings and Double strand necklace with unique details popular in the 1950s.
These sell today in the triple digits and are hard to find as a set.

You will see:
-fabulous Aurora Borealis coating
-bright colors of greens, teals, emerald, blues, and multicolor murano art glass style beads
-Gold colored hardware

No noted defects.
Hettie Carnegie, born in Austria and immigrated to NYC as a young girl in the late 1800s. She named herself Carnegie after the richest man in America.
She began as a fashion designer and moved into Jewelry Making.

In 1928, a then-unknown Lucille Ball began working for Carnegie as an in-house model. Carnegie ordered Ball to dye her then-brown hair blonde, and Ball complied. Of this time in her life, Ball said, "Hattie taught me how to slouch properly in a $1,000 hand-sewn sequin dress and how to wear a $40,000 sable coat as casually as rabbit.
Carnegie's specialty was "the little Carnegie suit".
In 1950, she was invited to apply her design sense to the Women's Army Corps (WAC) uniform. This was adopted for wear on New Year's Day 1951. On June 1, 1952, Carnegie received the Congressional Medal of Freedom for the WAC uniform design and for her many other charitable and patriotic contributions.The WAC design was so timelessly elegant that it was still in use for women's U.S. Army uniforms in 1968.

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