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All Items : Estate Jewelry : Gold : Victorian : Pre 1900 item #1485484
Kensington House Antiques
$4,500.00
A beautiful pair of 14K yellow gold double curb link bracelets. The links are enhanced with ornate repousse decoration but could be worn inside out when a smoother look is called for. The clasp of each bracelet is stamped with Viennese 14K gold marks used 1872-1902. The bracelets are priced as a pair, but are available separately.
  • Origin: Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1872-1902
  • Condition: excellent, no dings
  • Dimensions: 7-3/4” long; 1/2” wide
  • Weight: 47.3 grams
All Items : Estate Jewelry : Gold : Victorian : Pre 1900 item #1485474
Kensington House Antiques
$1,095.00
An early Victorian 14K yellow gold locket enhanced with a pretty design of painted enamel roses and taille d'epargne tracery. The exposed gold surfaces are further decorated with engraving. The back cover has a style of engine-turned engraving usually found only in the late Georgian or very early Victorian periods. The interior retains both of the original glass covers and gold frames.
  • Origin: America, ca. 1840
  • Condition: excellent; no enamel damage; a pinpoint ding to the back cover
  • Dimensions: 1-1/16" x 1-1/2" (excluding jump ring)
  • Weight: 8.2 grams
All Items : Estate Jewelry : Gold : Victorian : Pre 1900 item #1485471
Kensington House Antiques
$1,795.00
A fine Victorian 14K gold and platinum locket ornately decorated in the Etruscan style with a lily pond scene. The scene includes rose gold cattails, green gold lily pads, and platinum lily blossoms. The remainder of the locket is enanced with ropetwists, wire work, and appliques. The locket opens at the back to reveal a photo compartment. The locket is completed iwth its original matching bail.
  • Origin: America, ca. 1860
  • Condition: excellent; a few minor pinpoints on the back cover
  • Dimensions: 1-3/8" x 2-3/16" (including bail)
  • Weight: 14.6 grams
All Items : Estate Jewelry : Gold : Victorian : Pre 1910 item #1485466
Kensington House Antiques
$1,250.00
A classic pave pearl puffed heart pendant centered with an old European cut diamond. The diamond is H color, SI1 clarity. The back is stamped "14K."
  • Origin: America, ca. 1900
  • Condition: excellent
  • Dimensions: 7/8" x 7/8" (excluding bail)
  • Weight: 5.7 grams
All Items : Estate Jewelry : Gold : Victorian : Pre 1910 item #1485435
Kensington House Antiques
$2,595.00
A heavy 14K gold curb link watch chain, finished with a movable t-bar, a dog clip, and a spring ring. The chain would be perfect to match up with one or more other heavy watch chains to create a unique layered look with multiple charms. Marked 14K.
  • Origin: America, ca. 1900
  • Condition: excellent
  • Dimensions: 12-3/4" long
  • Weight: 37.9 grams
All Items : Estate Jewelry : Gold : Victorian : Pre 1900 item #1483676
Kensington House Antiques
$575.00
A wonderful early Victorian portrait locket worked in gilt silver and set with hundreds of Bohemian garnets, including a 10.2-carat rose cut oval at the center. The garnets are set with space between them to lighten the overall effect and better show the bright red coloring of the stones. The locket is suspended from a garnet-encrusted clover shaped bail. The back cover is entirely glass The gilding is intact.
  • Origin: probably English, ca. 1845
  • Condition: excellent, no missing stones
  • Dimensions: locket, 1-1/4” x 1-3/8”; overall length, 2-1/8”
  • Weight: 14.4 grams
All Items : Estate Jewelry : Gold : Victorian : Pre 1910 item #1483675
Kensington House Antiques
$2,725.00
A lovely 14K gold Edwardian long chain set at regular intervals with round brilliant cut amethysts in collet settings. The necklace is completed with a dog clip clasp. The chain can be worn at is full 52-1/2” length, our doubled and worn at 26-1/4”. The amethysts have excellent color and brilliance. Tested and guaranteed 14K.
  • Origin: America, ca. 1900
  • Condition: excellent
  • Dimensions: 52-1/2” long
  • Weight: 16.4 grams
  • Approximate Total Amethyst Weight: 5.6 carats
All Items : Estate Jewelry : Gold : Victorian : Pre 1900 item #1483673
Kensington House Antiques
$1,250.00
A pretty Victorian 14K gold locket, the cover featuring a lion rampant with a shield. The edges of the locket are worked in an ornate rococo design that is mirrored on the large suspension ring. The interior retains the original glass cover and frame insert. The back is engraved with a period “WWW” monogram. Tested and guaranteed 14K.
  • Origin: America, ca. 1890
  • Condition: excellent; sharp detail
  • Dimensions: locket diameter 1”; overall length, 2”
  • Weight: 10.7 grams
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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Victorian : Pre 1900 item #1481753
Kensington House Antiques
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A handsome griffin with back-stretched wings, a lion’s head and a curling serpent’s tail grasps an old mine cut diamond in this 19th century French brooch and necklace slide. Interestingly, the creature’s tongue is licking the diamond. The eye is set with a small faceted ruby. The back retains the original pin stem and a hinged clasp so the griffin can be attached to a chain. The hinged clasp is marked “Déposé” meaning the griffin was a patented design. Tested and guaranteed 18K gold. A bail could easily be added for wear as a pendant.
  • Origin: France, ca. 1880
  • Condition: excellent
  • Dimensions: 1-1/2” x 3/4”
  • Approximate Diamond Weight: .12 carat
  • Weight: 4.7 grams
All Items : Estate Jewelry : Gold : Victorian : Pre 1900 item #1476871
Kensington House Antiques
$265.00
A pretty 18K yellow gold pendant in a shape that suggests a pair of wings, each set with rose cut diamonds. The design is completed with an additional diamond at the top in a buttercup setting. The pendant was likely fashioned from a larger piece of jewelry that was no longer fashionable. The reverse is stamped with a goldsmith’s mark and also with the Birmingham date mark for 1849. The jump ring is 14K.
  • Origin: Birmingham, England, 1849
  • Condition: excellent
  • Dimensions: 13/16” x 11/16” (excluding bail)
  • Approximate Total Diamond Weight: .15 carat
  • Weight: 1.9 gram
All Items : Estate Jewelry : Gold : Victorian : Pre 1900 item #1476642
Kensington House Antiques
$6,500.00
A very fine Victorian Albert chain fashioned from a set of nineteen sizable natural gold nuggets (approximately 20-24K). The nuggets are connected by short sections of handmade chain worked in 14K. The chain has a t-bar enhanced with small nuggets and a short length of chain to suspend a fob. Nugget jewelry became popular during the California Gold Rush in 1849 and again during the Alaska Gold Rush in 1896. Nuggets were difficult to find and a collection this large was a significant indicator of wealth. Tested and guaranteed for gold content.
  • Origin: America, 1850-1900
  • Condition: excellent
  • Dimensions: 15-1/2” long (could be extended by adding additional plain links at the clasp)
  • Weight: 55.3 grams
    All Items : Estate Jewelry : Gold : Victorian : Pre 1900 item #1476635
    Kensington House Antiques
    $1,895.00
    A lovely mid-19th century locket worked in 18K yellow gold set with rubies and natural seed pearls. The setting is enhanced with geometric appliques, engine-turned engraving, rope twists, and a beautifully fashioned bow concealing the bail. The rubies have very good color and are unheated. The locket retains its original reeded jump ring, as well. The back is decorated with engine-turned engraving. The interior retains the original gold frame and glass cover. Faintly marked with French 18K gold marks and a maker’s mark.
    • Origin: France, ca. 1860
    • Condition: excellent, all original
    • Dimensions: 1” x 2-1/16” (including jump ring)
    • Approximate Total Ruby Weight: .21 carat
    • Weight: 14.6 grams
    All Items : Estate Jewelry : Gold : Victorian : Pre 1900 item #1476632
    Kensington House Antiques
    $1,850.00
    A beautiful enameled oval locket in 18K gold, the cover decorated with a wreath of blue enameled forget-me-nots, each centered with a small rose cut diamond, against a black background. The design is encircled with additional black taille d’epargne enameling. The back is also decorated with blue forget-me-nots surrounded with taille d’epargne enameling and has a shield-shaped reserve that was never monogrammed. In Victorian floriography (the "language of flowers") forget-me-nots represented faithfulness, true love, and remembrance. The exposed gold surfaces on both the front and back are enhanced with engraved and stippled decoration. The interior retains the original glass covers and photos of two 19th century gentlemen. The bail is stamped with French 18K gold marks.Origin: France, ca. 1855
  • Condition: excellent, less than 5% loss to taille d’epargne enamel, mostly on the back
  • Dimensions: 15/16” x 1-3/8” (excluding bail and jump ring)
  • Weight: 13.2 grams
  • Approximate Total Diamond Weight: .08 carat
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