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All Items : Estate Jewelry : Gold : Art Nouveau : Pre 1910 item #1483672
Kensington House Antiques
$895.00
A classic Art Nouveau brooch / pendant decorated with lush pale blue, medium blue, cream, and yellow matte enamels. The flower is centered with a round diamond. The pin is unmarked but is certainly by one of the Newark jewelers. The back retains the original pinstem and clasp. A bail could easily be added for wear as a pendant. Tested and guaranteed 14K.
  • Origin: America, ca. 1900
  • Condition: excellent, no enamel damage
  • Dimensions: 7/8” x 7/8”
  • Weight: 4.3 grams
  • Approximate Diamond Weight: .02 carat.
All Items : Estate Jewelry : Gold : Victorian : Pre 1900 item #1483671
Kensington House Antiques
$595.00
A fun piece of sporting jewelry depicting a crossed pair of croquet mallets and a coral ball inside the wicket. The banded agate stone is black with a single white line and has never been engraved. Croquet became fashionable among the English elite in 1856 when when the first book of croquet rules was published and the All England Croquet Club was formed at Wimbledon. The fob is stamped “10 ct.”
  • Origin: England, ca. 1860
  • Condition: excellent
  • Dimensions: 3/4” x 9/16” x 1-1/4 (excluding jump rings)
  • Weight: 5.0 grams.
All Items : Estate Jewelry : Gold : Art Nouveau : Pre 1900 item #1483670
Kensington House Antiques
$1,725.00
An elegant Art Nouveau 18K gold, platinum and diamond pendant and brooch depicting a young woman with flowing flower-bedecked hair. She represents the Spring season, “Printemps.” Each of the flowers is centered a rose cut diamond and the maiden wears a necklace of rose cut diamonds, as well. The gold surface is bloomed for a slightly matte finish. The pendant/brooch is faintly heart-shaped and is finished along the edges with 54 rose cut diamonds set in platinum. The pinstem unscrews from the back, so the jewel can be worn as a pendant from the two pendant loops at the top corners. This design was commissioned in 1886 from the medallist Emile Séraphin Vernier by the esteemed house Fonsèque et Olive which was one of Paris’ most successful Art Nouveau jewelers.
  • Origin: France, ca. 1890
  • Condition: excellent
  • Dimensions: 1-1/16 x 1-1/8”
  • Approximate Total Diamond Weight: .75 carat
  • Weight: 8.9 grams
All Items : Estate Jewelry : Cufflinks and Accessories : Gold : Pre 1910 item #1483669
Kensington House Antiques
$695.00
A handsome pair of 14K gold bean-back cufflinks, the oval faces decorated with dogs, their tails straight and one paw lifted “pointing” in classic hunting pose. The gold surfaces have slightly matte finish. The backs are stamped with Carrington’s 14K mark.
  • Origin: America, ca. 1900
  • Condition: excellent, sharp detail, no dings
  • Dimensions: faces, 13/16” x 9/16”
  • Weight: 7.1 grams
All Items : Estate Jewelry : Gold : Art Nouveau : Pre 1910 item #1483668
Kensington House Antiques
$1,495.00
A classic Art Nouveau brooch / pendant decorated with lush purple, cream, maroon, and yellow matte enamels. The flower is centered with a round brilliant cut diamond. Though this example is unmarked, it is likely by A. J. Hedges. Hedges’ enameled flowers stood out from the competition because they were generally heavier and displayed more sculptural detail. The diamond is graded H/SI2. The back retains the original pinstem, clasp, and folding pendant bail. The bail is stamped “14K.”
  • Origin: America, ca. 1900
  • Condition: excellent, no enamel damage
  • Dimensions: 1-3/16” x 1-3/16”
  • Weight: 11.6 grams
  • Approximate Diamond Weight: .16 carat.
All Items : Estate Jewelry : Gold : Victorian : Pre 1900 item #1482511
Kensington House Antiques
$4,500.00
A wonderful, finely detailed 18K gold pendant / brooch featuring a cat surrounded by an ivy-covered wood wreath. The cat has bright emerald eyes and wears a platinum collar with an old European cut diamond at the front. The pendant is finely engraved to represent the cat’s fur and the wood and foliage textures of the frame. Even the back is engraved in a wood texture. Cat jewelry is extremely difficult to find—this example is one of the two best we have had in the last 20 years. Stamped “15 Ct.”
  • Origin: England, ca. 1870
  • Condition: excellent
  • Dimensions: 1-1/4” diameter
  • Weight: 18.8 grams
  • Approximate Total Gemstone Weight: emerald, .02 carat; diamond, .05 carat
All Items : Estate Jewelry : Cufflinks and Accessories : Gold : Pre 1940 item #1482510
Kensington House Antiques
$1,895.00
A handsome pair of 18K yellow gold cufflinks by Tiffany & Co. set with square cut sapphires. The cufflinks are fashioned in a sort of modified belt buckle motif. The sapphires have very good uniform color and show no indication of heat treatment. The backs are stamped Tiffany & Co. and also have the manufacturing jeweler’s mark for Larter.
  • Origin: America, ca. 1940
  • Condition: excellent
  • Dimensions: 9/16” x 11/16”
  • Weight: 13.2 grams
  • Approximate Total Sapphire Weight: 1.0 carat
All Items : Estate Jewelry : Cufflinks and Accessories : Gold : Pre 1970 item #1482509
Kensington House Antiques
$595.00
A handsome pair of 9K yellow gold toggle-back cufflinks, the faces depicting fox heads encircled by horseshoes. The foxes have citrine eyes. All elements are very nicely detailed. The backs are stamped with 9K gold hallmarks, the maker’s mark for Cropp & Farr, and the date mark for 1966.
  • Origin: England, 1966
  • Condition: excellent
  • Dimensions: faces, 5/8” x 9/16”
  • Weight: 9.6 grams
All Items : Estate Jewelry : Gold : Period : Pre 1960 item #1482508
Kensington House Antiques
$1,995.00
A large Etruscan style 18K gold fob charm an a crown form, set with emerald and round cut citrines. The gold surfaces are decorated with twisted wire and rosettes, and the lower portion has a Florentine finish with engraved details. Tested and guaranteed 18K.
  • Origin: Italy, ca, 1955
  • Condition: excellent
  • Dimensions: 1-3/8” x 1-3/16” x 1-3/8” (excluding jump ring)
  • Approximate Total Citrine Weight: 37.4 carats
  • Weight: 22.6 grams
All Items : Estate Jewelry : Gold : Period : Pre 1960 item #1482507
Kensington House Antiques
$1,450.00
A fine Italian Etruscan style 18K gold fob charm set with amethysts and pearls. The charm is shaped as a crown. The gold surfaces are enhanced with twisted wire and rosette motifs. The oval amethysts have nice medium color intensity and the pearls have good luster. The charm bears the maker’s mark of Figli di Vittoria Franconeri di Lidia (Florence).
  • Origin: Italy, ca. 1955
  • Condition: excellent
  • Dimensions: 1” x 13/16” x 1-1/4” (excluding jump ring)
  • Approximate Total Amethyst Weight: 7.99 carats
  • Weight: 12.8 grams
All Items : Estate Jewelry : Gold : Victorian : Pre 1910 item #1482506
Kensington House Antiques
$2,950.00
An elegant Art Nouveau bracelet, the fancy links comprising ornately twisted knots and set alternately with old mine cut diamonds and round cut sapphires. The diamonds are set in platinum collets while the sapphires are in yellow gold. The diamonds are H color, I1 and I2 clarity; the sapphires are vivid blue. The clasp is stamped with a maker’s serial number indicating a quality house, and the clasp tongue is stamped with French 18K gold marks.
  • Origin: France, ca. 1900
  • Condition: excellent, normal wear to tops surfaces of gemstones (not visible without 10x magnification)
  • Dimensions: length, 6-1/2”; width, 1/2"
  • Weight: 23.4 grams
  • Approximate Total Gemstone Weight: diamond, .68 carat; sapphire, .84 carat
All Items : Estate Jewelry : Gold : Edwardian : Pre 1920 item #1482505
Kensington House Antiques
$2,450.00
An elegant Edwardian bracelet comprising rectangular filigree plaques of 14K gold centering collet-set oval amethysts. The filigree is amazingly detailed. The amethysts have rich, saturated color and no zoning. The tongue of the clasp is stamped “14K.”
  • Origin: America, ca. 1910
  • Condition: excellent
  • Dimensions: 7-5/16” long, 1/2" wide
  • Weight: 22.3 grams
  • Approximate Total Amethyst Weight: 16.02 carats
All Items : Estate Jewelry : Silver : Edwardian : Pre 1910 item #1482504
Kensington House Antiques
$400.00
A delightful late Victorian or Edwardian pendant in the form of a poodle jumping through a hoop. The wonderfully detailed poodle is cast in sterling silver and the hoop is 14K gold. The dog is fully three-dimensional, and the eyes are set with small pyrope garnets. The pendant is marked “14K Sterling.”
  • Origin: America, ca. 1910
  • Condition: excellent
  • Dimensions: 1-9/16” x 3/8” x 1-1/4”
  • Weight: 11.2 grams
All Items : Estate Jewelry : Silver : Victorian : Pre 1920 item #1482503
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An excellent late Victorian silver baton link watch chain, the batons decorated with niello in a checkboard pattern. The batons are joined by gilt silver curb links. Even the dog clip and bolt clasps are enhanced with striped niello. The chain is stamped “800.”
  • Origin: Switzerland, ca. 1900
  • Condition: excellent, all niello intact
  • Length: 16-1/2”
  • Weight: 10.4 grams
All Items : Estate Jewelry : Gold : Deco : Pre 1930 item #1482020
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SOLD
An exceptional pair of Art Deco platinum, emerald, diamond and onyx cufflinks by Cartier. Each face is made from a melon-carved emerald bead dating to India's Mughal Empire (17th/18th centuries), topped with a round onyx disk centered with an old European cut diamond. The emeralds, variously weighing approximately 5.94, 5.49, 4.53 and 4.20 carats, totalling just over 20 carats. The emeralds have a strong green color with natural inclusions characteristic of the Chivor mines in Colombia. The diamonds are graded as F color, VVS clarity. The faces are joined with removable dog clip connectors. The fixed mountings are marked with the workshop master's mark used in the 1920s and French platinum marks and are signed “Cartier.” The cufflinks are presented in their original fitted, silk- and velvet-lined, fitted leather case.

Jacques Cartier was one of the first European jewelers to travel to India and to acquire antique emerald, ruby and sapphire beads from the maharajahs. These stones were re-set in Cartier's Paris workrooms. One of the most important commissions using carved Mughal beads was a brooch for Marjorie Merriweather Post. That brooch features emeralds carved in the same shape as those in these cufflinks.

  • Origin: France, ca. 1920
  • Condition: excellent, all original
  • Dimensions: faces, approximately 7/16" diameter
  • Condition: excellent; emeralds have surface wear consistent with 300-400 years of use as jewelry
  • Weight: 8.4 grams
  • Approximate Total Gemstone Weight: diamond, .24 carat; emerald, 20.16 carats

All Items : Estate Jewelry : Gold : Victorian : Pre 1910 item #1482019
Kensington House Antiques
Sale Pending
A lovely 18K gold bracelet in the Louis XVI style, the links fashioned as floral and foliate wreaths alternately centered with old European cut diamonds and round cut rubies. The pierced design lends a light appearance despite the bracelet’s substantial weight. The clasp is stamped with French 18K gold marks.
  • Origin: France, ca. 1900
  • Condition: excellent, all original
  • Dimensions: 7/16” wide; 7-1/2” long
  • Weight: 29.1 grams
  • Approximate Total Gemstone Weight: diamond, .24 carat; ruby, .44 carat
All Items : Estate Jewelry : Gold : Victorian : Pre 1900 item #1482018
Kensington House Antiques
$3,500.00
A very fine 19th century 18K gold watch chain enhanced comprising a quadruple foxtail chain enhanced with two slides, a fob, and a watch key. The slides and the fob are finished with repousse decoration and cushion cut rubies. The fob also has an unengraved bloodstone plaque on the bottom. When the two slides are drawn close together they cause the chain to plait itself. The watch hook has a secure locking mechanism. This chain is particularly ornate and would have been intended for wear as a “gilletière” high on the vest so it could be readily visible to others. The rubies have vivid color are show no indications of heat treatment. The watch chain would look particularly nice styled with other heavy neck chains or perhaps even worn as a bracelet. The chain is stamped with early 19th century hallmarks.
  • Origin: France, ca. 1840
  • Condition: excellent, all original
  • Dimensions: 13-3/4”
  • Weight: 40.4 grams
  • Approximate Total Ruby Weight: 2.0 carats
All Items : Estate Jewelry : Gold : Edwardian : Pre 1920 item #1482017
Kensington House Antiques
$1,250.00
A pair of silver egg-shaped earrings decorated with ornate floral guilloche engraving below translucent golden enamel. The enamel gives the appearance that the eggs are constructed entirely of gold. The ridge around the center of each egg was left unenameled for color contrast. The upper half of each egg is set with an old European cut diamond. The 14K gold wires are possibly original, but more likely replacements. The bail of each egg is stamped with illegible hallmarks. Purchased in Paris.
  • Origin: Russia, ca. 1910
  • Condition: excellent
  • Dimensions: 1/2” wide; 3/4" long (excluding wires)
  • Weight: 7.8 grams
  • Approximate Total Diamond Weight: .06 carat