Vintage Rare KRAMER MEDUSA HEAD SNAKE PIN Brooch Rhinestone, Mid-century Modern
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Vintage Rare KRAMER MEDUSA HEAD SNAKE PIN Brooch Rhinestone, Mid-century Modern:
$195.00
Rare
&
Sought After
MEDUSA HEAD
Writhing Snakes
PIN
Coral & Teal Colors
with
Rhinestone Snake Eyes
It is unsigned, but attributed to Kramer, as he made this particular Medusa design in various colors.
This pin is in excellent condition.
It is 2\" in diameter and weighs 1.5 ounces.
Here is some information on the Kramer Jewelry company:
\"Founded in New York City at the height of World War II, Kramer Jewelry Creations produced intricate and artistic pieces out of gilt metal, rhinestones, glass, and enamel. Louis Kramer, who started the company in 1943, was later joined by his brothers, Morris and Harry, as he tapped into the burgeoning costume-jewelry market.
With the help of his siblings, Louis Kramer managed the production of his jewelry line, and was hands-on when it came to the design and integrity of the final product. In fact, Kramer designed many of his company\'s most exuberant pieces. Kramer seemed to favor flowers, particularly organic-looking floral designs made with colored enamel or gilt petals and leaves. Some of these flower brooches had rhinestones set in “trembling” centers. Kramer also made pieces dripping with rhinestones in vibrant colors like blue, red, and topaz, as well as geometric patterns and animal figures. Kramer closed its doors in the 1970s.\"
And here is the tragic story of Medusa:
\"Medusa was a monster, one of the Gorgon sisters and daughter of Phorkys and Keto, the children of Gaea (Earth) and Oceanus (Ocean). She had the face of a hideous woman with snakes instead of hair; anyone who looked into her eyes was immediately turned to stone. Her sisters were Sthenno and Euryale, but Medusa was the only mortal of the three.
She was originally a golden-haired, fair maiden, who, as a priestess of Athena, was devoted to a life of celibacy; however, after being wooed by Poseidon and falling for him, she forgot her vows and married him. For this offense, she was punished by the goddess in a most terrible manner. Each wavy lock of the beautiful hair that had charmed her husband was changed into a venomous snake; her once gentle, love-inspiring eyes turned into blood-shot, furious orbs, which excited fear and disgust in the mind of the onlooker; whilst her former roseate hue and milk-white skin assumed a loathsome greenish tinge.
Seeing herself transformed into such a repulsive creature, Medusa fled her home, never to return. Wandering about, abhorred, dreaded, and shunned by the rest of the world, she turned into a character worthy of her outer appearance. In her despair, she fled to Africa, where, while wandering restlessly from place to place, young snakes dropped from her hair; that is how, according to the ancient Greeks, Africa became a hotbed of venomous reptiles. With the curse of Athena upon her, she turned into stone whomever she gazed upon, till at last, after a life of nameless misery, deliverance came to her in the shape of death, at the hands of Perseus.\"
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Vintage Rare KRAMER MEDUSA HEAD SNAKE PIN Brooch Rhinestone, Mid-century Modern:
$195.00