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VERA
Vera Neumann, primarily a scarf designer, was a wonderful colorist with great graphic style. She signed her textiles Vera. Her fabrics are also seen in blouses and dresses from the 1960s and 1970s, using silk as well as cotton. Vera also designed textiles for the home, such as napkins and tablecloths. The Vera label is seen starting about 1947.
Here is a timeline to help date Vera scarves using the signature printed on the scarf.
The earliest scarves (1947-early 1950s) have "vera" in small print with no symbols.
The labybug & © (C in a circle, copyright symbol) were added to the small "vera" in the late 1950s. The ladybug remained into the 1960s, and the "Vera" signature got bigger.
Sometime in the mid to late 1960s, the ladybug was removed. Copyright symbol remained.
Signature continued to get larger and bolder through the 1970s and 1980s.
Vera died in 1993. At that time her name was licensed. The post-1993 scarves have a small "vera" signature and the copyright symbol.
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from a 1950s scarf
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from a late 1960s/early 70s dress
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from an early 1970s blouse
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from a 1970s caftan
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from an early 1980s skirt
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early 1980s hangtag
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from a 1980s scarf
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