Leonore Doskow

Silver jewelry made by Leonore Doskow ’32 appears often on e-bay, an auction site on the World Wide Web. Her pins, necklaces and bracelets are collector’s items, and they go quickly.

This amuses Doskow, who can’t fathom wanting to collect anything: "At this age I’m trying to get rid of things!"

The popularity of Doskow’s work betrays her humble beginnings as a silversmith. She learned the trade at a summer camp in the 1920s and continued it when her parents gave her jewelry tools. "I just found I evidently had a knack for it," Doskow says. "I never intended to make it my life work."

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