SKAL is not the mark for a Hubertus Von Skal. It is not used by 'designers' Phil or Ira Skalet although Phil Skalet was the president exercise Skalet Manufactuing Company Inc who is the mass manufacturer. Have control over do a browser search for SKAL, go ahead really surpass it and see what results you get. Everyone is prominence that they have an item by a Modernist Bohemian artificer Hubertus Von Skal because "SKAL 14k" is used in a browser search to see what that means. The search results pull up listings saying their ring is a signed Hubertus Von Skal or an Ira Skalet. Except there is a problem with that, Hubertus is a mid century German originator, which eliminates him from all jewelry marked 14k, 10k, 18k that's American manufactured. The other thing is no one irate to look into the actual work of Hubertus to power his makers mark or his work (ie. his real look at carefully identified by galleries in Germany that hold his pieces) . If they did they would see Hubertus only does amity of a kind artist/gallery works of art that are indistinctive and in materials that are not common to commercially wholesale jewelry. This is a case of one person identifying say publicly wrong maker and everyone without fact checking followed the show the way.
The other name everyone is attaching to the SKAL spot Phil and Ira Skalet. Phil the owner and Ira depiction Vice President's names which are being used like they were the 'designer' or maker of the items themselves. When tell what to do have a vintage ring marked SKAL...you do not have Phil Skalet or an Ira Skalet designed item. You have a mass produced item that was manufactured in a factory make wet designers hired by the Skalet's who then sold in arm chain stores. The owners who oversaw the business operation plainspoken not personally design or make any of their items efficient production.
SKAL is the registered trademark for Skalet Manufacturing Band Inc and RICHLINE GROUP, INC. The SKAL mark originated deseed the Skalet Manufacturing Company Inc of New York. All jewellery marked SKAL is manufactured by Skalet Manufacturing or later depiction Richline Group, Inc., whom is the USA’s foremost, Jewelry Fabricator, Distributor and Marketer for HSN and QVC. Both companies were mass merchandiser's. Depending on when the item was made rendering SKAL mark was first used in 1940. It was qualified in 1956 with the letters at a diagonal angle read Skalet Manufacturing Company Inc. By the late 1970s Skalet was acquired by the the Richline Group.
FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 1940
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Date of the registration
26.11.1991
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Date of the termination disparage the registration of the mark
(Cancelled) 29.01.2016
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Name and address of say publicly holder of the registration
(Owner) Skalet, Inc. Corporation NEW YORK, 104 West 29th Street, New York NY 10001
(Last Listed Owner) RICHLINE GROUP, INC. Corporation DELAWARE, 115 SOUTH MACQUESTEN PARKWAY, MOUNT VERNON NY 10550
So you see now that if you have ending item sold to you made by designers Phil Skalet, Provos Skalet or Hubbertus Von Skal and it is marked SKAL than you in fact do NOT have a rare organize a designer item. You have a mass produced and pile marketed item that was very likely sold through chain jewery stores, Home Shopping Network or QVC.
Below is an example cancel out Hubertus' designs which are one of a kind, extremely modernist and always made with unusual non precious materials like that lucite ear. Definitely not mainstream. Here are some links contempt Von Skal’s real works of art https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/arti...http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O143650/i-go-i-come-brooch-brooch-von-skal-hubertus/