Stephanie Perrotti, right, worked on the Lombardi Trophy for a number of years with Tiffany & Co. Currently, Perrotti works for Vanscoy, Maurer & Bash Diamond Jewelers in Lancaster.
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A Lancaster County jeweler worked on past Super Bowl trophies with Tiffany & Co.
By Mickayla Miller/LNP | LancasterOnline
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Stephanie Perrotti, right, worked on the Lombardi Trophy for a number of years with Tiffany & Co. Currently, Perrotti works for Vanscoy, Maurer & Bash Diamond Jewelers in Lancaster.
A Lancaster County jeweler once was one of the craftsmen responsible for creating the Lombardi Trophy, awarded to the winner of the NFL’s Super Bowl each year.
Stephanie Perrotti, of Mount Joy, is the bench jeweler for Vanscoy, Maurer & Bash Diamond Jewelers, at 830 Plaza Blvd. in Lancaster. She started at the company in 2019.
Prior to her work in Lancaster, Perrotti worked at Tiffany & Co. for about seven years, starting in 2006.
Tiffany & Co. crafts a number of prestigious trophies, from the FIFA Club World Cup Winners’ Trophy to the Commissioner’s Trophy, given to the winner of the MLB World Series.
“The skills I used at Tiffany & Co. are very transferrable,” says Perrotti, who originally hails from Washington Boro. “The properties of metals don’t really change in what you do with the materials. It’s whether it’s on a large scale or a small scale.”
In 2013, Perrotti was featured in a Wall Street Journal video that explains how Tiffany & Co. makes the Lombardi Trophy.
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“The beautiful thing about Stephanie is she was here for 18 months before we knew about her Lombardi trophy experience,” says Mark Allan Maurer, president of Vanscoy, Maurer & Bash Diamond Jewelers. “She is very humble.”
We caught up with Perrotti ahead of Super Bowl LIX, featuring a matchup between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs, which premieres this weekend.
Editor’s note: This interview was lightly edited for length and clarity.
How did you get into jewelry making and crafting?
Stephanie: I’ve always loved art, and fell in love with metal as a medium as a junior at Penn Manor High School. It was the reason I got up every day. I loved it. I was so excited just for that class. And then, with the encouragement from some art teachers, I decided to pursue metals after high school. I got a BFA in metals from Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York. That was just kind of the start to it.
So, you previously worked on the Lombardi Trophy.
Once you’re there for a while, Tiffany & Co. makes so many trophies, it’s kind of hard not to be a part of making one of the iconic trophies. They do trophies for NASCAR, major league soccer, major league baseball, tennis, golf — they really do a lot of big, iconic trophies. Not many people know that. It’s very cool.
When you worked on the Lombardi Trophy, what specifically did you do?
It takes a lot of skilled craftsmen to complete a trophy. I was a silversmith on the trophy, so I would do all the fabrication. I would roll out the sheets of metal that would create the … three-sided base that would go up to the ball. I would roll those out, and then solder them together. The ball gets soldered together and there’s a lot of internal hardware that gets made, so you’re putting that together, fitting the ball to the base. … And then there are the people who create the lines of the football, and the little dimples that the laces go in, so it looks like a football. … So, there are a lot of hands that go into completing the trophies.
Are you a football fan?
I enjoy watching football, but I am not so much a fan that I follow it every week. I am all-in for the Super Bowl. I love getting together with family and friends, and eating food, and watching commercials and watching the game. My favorite part is always the very end when I get to watch the presentation of the trophy. … Sometimes, working at Tiffany & Co. you get a little desensitized, because you’re around all these beautiful pieces. You have to step out of yourself and be like, ‘Wow, that’s really cool. I made that!’
Who are you rooting for at the Super Bowl?
The Eagles, obviously! … I root for the hometown team.
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