Diamanté & Gold Snake Chain 1950s Necklace by Adolph Katz for Coro

This Coro necklace features gold-plated fretwork embellished with baguette-shaped diamanté as its centerpiece. A pear-shaped diamanté adorns the tail of the hook-and-tail closure of the snake chain. This piece is another great example of the work Adolph Katz produced for Corocraft, Coro’s high-end line.  What’s interesting is that this piece appears in an October 1, 1953 Vogue ad with the following copy:  “excitingly beautiful as Paris by night … Vendome by Coro“.  (Vendome later became another one of the company’s high-end lines.)