We are very pleased to offer this collection of five Leondre Doskow Inc. sterling silver initial charms or pendants from the mid 1970s. The initials are F T W O and G. These striking pendants measure 1.5 inches tall and .75 inches wide. Each charm or pendant is marked Sterling Leondre Doskow Inc Sterling. These will be outstanding additions to a vintage Sterling Silver Collection. ***** TOTAL GRAM WT: 38.4 GRAMS and EACH PENDANT MEASURES: .75 X 1.5 Tall ********LEONORE B. DOSKOW - Born October 20, 1910 in Philadelphia, she graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1932 and opened a studio to develop her hobby of silversmithing into her business and lifelong passion. After marrying David M. Doskow in 1934, she moved her studio to New York City and later to Montrose, NY, where she manufactured monogrammed and other silver articles of her own design and, together with her husband, built a nationwide business under the name Leonore Doskow, Inc. They would find themselves unemployed in New York City, in the midst of the Depression with a baby on the way. She started making things in bulk—a dozen tie clips for example—and David would sell them to gift shops. women did not have careers in those days, we worked as equal partners," says Doskow. "There would have been no business without him. It was touch and go a lot of the time. Sometimes we would say to each other, do you think we should quit and each go get a job? But we kept on." They ran a series of advertisements on December 8, 1941. "Not one single reply," says Doskow. "And in those days, everybody went to war. We had no business." They moved to Westchester County at the suggestion of a friend, where the business eventually flourished. At its peak it employed 75 people, including high school students on co-ops. Novelties became Doskow’s favorite projects. Monograms were her "big thing," and she also enjoyed creating custom pillboxes, napkin rings, money clips and cigarette cases. In 1940 the Metropolitan Museum of Art displayed her sugar bowl and creamer set in an exhibit, Contemporary American Art. In later years her influences came from trade shows and museums; earlier, she "made things as my children were growing up. When they were babies I made baby spoons and baby pins. As they got older I made more sophisticated things. The ideas just came." Her most recent creation, given to friends when they help change her light bulbs, is a small sterling key chain with a miniature silver light bulb attached. She passed away in 2008.

very good to excellent - minor tarnish & wear