Description

Specialties

• Art Deco and Retro Jewelry.
• Convertible Jewelry.
• Magnificent Gemstones.
• Reflections Line with its “mix-and-match” components.
• Using the Glamour of the Movie Industry to Promote their Jewelry.

1827

• Monsieur Rocher
  • Opens a jewelry firm in Paris, eventually, this is becomes the House of Mauboussin.

1869

• Birth of Randolph J. Trabert

1891

• Birth of William Howard Hoeffer

1915

• Trabert & Hoeffer meet while working for T. Kirkpatrick & Co.

1924

• Mauboussin opens a shop on Park Avenue.

1926

• Trabert & Hoeffer, Inc opened at 522 Fifth Avenue.

1929

• Mauboussin moves to E. 51st and incorporates in the U.S.
• In addition, Mauboussin has a Palm Beach address.

1930

• Death of Randolph Trabert.

1934

• Trabert & Hoeffer opens a Los Angeles Shop.

1935

• Hoeffer loans jewelry to the Paramount Pictures production The Gilded Lilly beginning a long tradition of lending jewelry to movies and movie stars.
• Trabert & Hoeffer moves the New York store to Park Avenue.
• Mauboussin closes its U.S. locations and liquidates the remaining inventory.

1936

• Trabert & Hoeffer, Inc.-Mauboussin is announced as a merger, in fact it was more of a marketing ploy giving Mauboussin access to T&H’s Hollywood clients and allowed Mauboussin to work out issues with the United States Treasury regarding duties on earlier imports.

1938

• Gustave Toth designed the Reflection Series.
• William Ruser moved from NY to LA to manage the Los Angeles shop.

1940

• THM Opens a shop in Chicago.
• A patent is obtained covering elements for monogram brooches as part of the Reflection design line.

1941

• Zodiac line is added to the Reflection series.

1945

• Hoeffer monopolizes the entire output of emeralds from the Muzo mines, Colombia.

1947

• William Ruser leaves THM and establishes his iconic Rodeo Drive jewelry business.

1953

• Mauboussin severs ties with Trabert & Hoeffer.

1954

• The Los Angeles location of T&H moves to 335 Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills to be closer to their movie star clients.

1955

• T&H liquidates its inventory at the Park Avenue location (sold in 1950 to Morris Kaplan & Maurice Gordon of Chicago)

1956

• Hoeffer retires.

1968

• Death of Hoeffer.

1971

• Park Avenue store closes (at the end of the 20 year lease established when the building was sold.)

1988

• Cutlers, Trabert & Hoeffer (est. 1961) closes its Florida location.