- Origin: France, ca 1895
- Condition: excellent
- Dimensions: necklace length, 16-3/4"; central plaque, 1-7/8" wide, 1-1/4" high
- Weight: 21.9 grams
$6,250.00
- Origin: Scotland, ca. 1900
- Condition: mint
- Dimensions: 7/16” wide at front; 6-1/8” circumference
- Weight: 17.3 grams
- Approximate Total Gemstone Weight: opal, 7.36 carats; diamond, .37 carat
$525.00
In 1705, Edmond Halley correctly predicted the comet’s return in 1758. When it returned again in 1835 (and in 1910), jewelers were ready with fashionable pins to celebrate the comet’s passage.
- Origin: England, ca 1835
- Condition: excellent
- Dimensions: 1-3/8” long
- Weight: 2.9 grams
Burle Marx worked in Brazil, and his only international boutique was at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, DC. The Brazilian government commissioned him to make state gifts for Queen Elizabeth, Japan’s Empress Nagako, Iran’s Empress Farah Diba, Denmark’s Queen Margarethe, India’s Indira Gandhi, and many others. Among Hollywood royalty, he was a favorite of Merle Oberon and Natalie Wood.
- Origin: Brazil, ca. 1970
- Condition: excellent
- Dimensions: 15/16” x 3/4”
- Weight: 16.8 grams,
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- Origin: Brazil, ca. 1990
- Condition: excellent
- Dimensions: 1” long including bail
- Weight: 1.6 grams
- Approximate Total Gemstone Weight: 1.0 carat
$550.00
- Origin: England, ca 1830
- Condition: very good
- Dimensions: 5/8" x 1-1/8" Weight: 7.5 grams
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- Origin: America, ca 1895
- Condition: excellent
- Dimensions: 7-1/2” long
- Weight: 19.4 grams
- Approximate Total Amethyst Weight: 5.22 carats
$1,450.00
- Origin: Italy, ca 1955
- Condition: excellent
- Dimensions: 1-1/2” high; 3/4” wide
- Weight: 15.2 grams
- Approximate Total Gemstone Weight: citrine, 1.5 carats; carnelian, 7.4 carats
$1,695.00
- Origin: Italy, ca. 1955
- Condition: excellent
- Dimensions: 1-1/2” high (excluding jump ring); 1-1/4” wide
- Weight: 19.9 grams
$1,695.00
- Origin: Italy, ca 1955
- Condition: excellent
- Dimensions: 1-1/4 wide x 1-1/2 high (excluding jump ring)>/li>
- Weight: 14.6 grams
$2,995.00
- Origin: Brazil, ca 1955
- Condition: excellent
- 15/16" diameter
- Approximate Total Gemstone Weight: 11.02 carats
- Weight: 9.3 grams.
$225.00
- Origin: Switzerland, ca 1900
- Condition: excellent, niello intact
- Length: 17-1/2”
- Weight: 21.0 grams
$225.00
- Origin: Switzerland, ca 1900
- Condition: excellent, niello intact
- Length: 16-1/4”
- Weight: 15.2 grams
$3,995.00
- Origin: Switzerland, ca. 1945
- Condition: excellent, no enamel damage
- Dimensions: 1-5/8” x 1-7/16”
- Weight: 26.6 grams
- Approximate Total Gemstone Weight: ruby, .8 carat; emerald, .47 carat
$1,675.00
- IrugubL America, ca 1955
- Condition: excellent
- Dimensions: 1-5/8" diameter
- Weight: 16.8 grams
- Total Gemstone Weight: ruby, .75 ct; sapphire, .05 ct; emerald, .05 ct.
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The front of the locket is beautifully worked with a black enameled cypher surmounted by an Earl’s coronet against a bloomed gold finish. The back is similarly decorated with an engraved cypher and coronet. The interior features an area for a portrait on one side, and a glass compartment enclosing a twisted lock of Francis Mary’s hair on the other. The frame surrounding the hair is engraved “Francis Mary Viscountess Forbes/Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth/b. 21st Oct. 1811/d. Christmas day 1877.”
- Origin: England, 1877
- Condition: excellent, no enamel damage, dings, etc.
- Dimensions: 1-3/8” x 1-5/8” (2-1/4” with bail)
- Weight: 26.2 grams.
$1,895.00
- Origin: France, ca. 1880
- Condition: excellent; a small ding on the back cover (more visible from the inside of the locket than the outside
- Dimensions: 1-1/16” x 2” (2-3/8” including the bail)
- Weight: 15.2 grams
$2,895.00
- Origin: France, ca. 1850
- Condition: excellent, a few small dings to the back cover
- Dimensions: 1-1/4” x 1-15/16” (2-5/16” including bail)
- Weight: 20.6 grams
- Approximate Total Diamond Weight: .05 carat
$795.00
- Origin: America, ca. 1900
- Condition: excellent, very light wear to decorative elements at the shoulders
- Dimensions: face, 5/8” x 1/2"
- Finger Size: 8-1/2
- Weight: 9.3 grams
$1,650.00
- Origin: America, ca. 1840
- Dimensions: 1” x 7/8” x 1-1/2” (excluding ring)
- Weight: 19.5 grams
$2,195.00
- Origin: America, ca. 1940
- Condition: excellent
- Dimensions: 3-3/16” x 1-7/8”
- Approximate Total Ruby Weight: 4.2 carats
- Weight: 28.0 grams
$1,095.00
- Origin: America, ca 1905
- Condition: very good, a small ding on the back side
- Dimensions: width 1/4" tapering to 6/32” at the back; circumference, 7.87”
- Approximate Total Gemstone Weight: sapphire, .51 carat
- Weight: 8.0 grams
$1,850.00
- 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
$1,895.00
- 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
$1,995.00
- Origin: America, 1975
- Condition: excellent, no enamel loss or dings
- Dimensions: 1-3/8” diameter (excluding bail).
- Weight: 18.4 grams
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- Origin: France, ca. 1900
- Condition: excellent
- Dimensions: 7-7/8” long; 1/2" wide
- Weight: 16.4 grams
- Origin: France, ca. 1890
- Condition: excellent, sharp detail
- Dimensions: 1-1/4” x 1-1/8”
- Approximate Total Diamond Weight: .10 carat
- Weight: 12.7 grams
$6,500.00
- 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
$3,750.00
- Origin: France or England, ca. 1795
- Condition: excellent
- Dimensions: 1-1/2” diameter
- Approximate Total Gemstone Weight: diamond, 5.6 carats; sapphire, 1.65 carats
- Weight: 18.3 grams /ul>
$2,250.00
- Origin: America, ca 1980
- Condition: excellent
- Dimensions: length, 23"; gold beads, 10.9 mm diameter
- Gold Weight: 28.0 grams
$265.00
- Origin: Birmingham, England, 1849
- Condition: excellent
- Dimensions: 13/16” x 11/16” (excluding bail)
- Approximate Total Diamond Weight: .15 carat
- Weight: 1.9 gram
$775.00
- Dimensions: 1-7/16” long
- Approximate Total Gemstone Weight: aquamarine, 8.52 carats; sapphire, 1.06 carats
- Weight: 5.0 grams
$3,750.00
- Origin: England, ca. 1790
- Condition: very good, evidence of 19th century repairs that do not detract from the beauty
- Dimensions: 1-1/2” x 2-1/16” (excluding jump ring)
- Weight: 29.6 grams
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- Origin: America, ca. 1910
- Condition: excellent
- Finger Size: 7
- Crown Dimensions: 15/16” x 5/16”
- Approximate Total Gemstone Weight: sapphire, .70 carat; diamond, .20 carat
- Weight: 3.5 grams
$395.00
- Origin: America, ca. 1960
- Condition: excellent, all original
- Dimensions: 1-7/8” x –1-1/8”
- Approximate Total Gemstone Weight: .15 carat
- Weight: 6.0 grams
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- Origin: France, ca. 1950s or early 60s
- Condition: excellent
- Dimensions: 3/4” x 5/8”
- Weight: 2.2 grams.
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- Origin: France, ca. 1930
- Condition: excellent, sharp detail
- Dimensions: 11/16” diameter (excluding bail and jump ring)
- Weight: 3.5 grams
- Origin: France, ca. 1965
- Condition: very good
- Dimensions: 7/8” x 7/8” (excluding bail and jump ring)
- Weight: 4.7 grams
$1,975.00
- Origin: France, ca. 1900
- Condition: excellent, sharp detail
- Dimensions: 15/16” x 1-1/16” (excluding jump ring)
- Weight: 14.4 grams
- Approximate Gemstone Weight: .05 carat.
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- Origin: France, ca. 1910
- Condition: excellent, all original
- Dimensions: 13/16” x 13/16” (excluding bail and jump ring)
- Weight: 7.1 grams
- Approximate Gemstone Weight: .14 carat.
$3,250.00
- Origin: America, ca. 1940
- Condition: excellent, all original
- Dimensions: crown, 7/8” x 5/8”; shank tapers to 7/32” at the back
- Weight: 11.3 grams
- Approximate Total Gemstone Weight: diamond, 1.5 carats; sapphire, .44 carat.
$2,350.00
- Origin: Italy, ca. 1955
- Condition: excellent
- Dimensions: 1-1/8” diameter, 1-1/2” height (excluding jump ring)
- Approximate Total Topaz Weight: 32.8 carats
- Weight: 24.3 grams
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Jean ascended to the throne in 1350 at a time when France was suffering from the Black Death and was thirteen years into the Hundred Years’ War with England. He was captured by the Black Prince at the Battle of Poitiers in 1356 and taken to the Tower of London. A treaty with King Edward III promised Jean his freedom if he could pay a ransom equal to three times France’s entire annual revenue. He was granted freedom in exchange for offering his son as a captive while he returned to France to raise the ransom. On December 5, 1360, he issued an order to create an entirely new gold coin to be used for the ransom. The word “franc” meant “freedom,” and thereafter French currency has always been known as the franc. Jean’s son escaped captivity in England in 1363, but in chivalric gesture, the King volunteered to take his place, saying “If good faith were banned from the Earth, it ought to find asylum in the hearts of kings.” He returned to England, where he died the following year.
- Origin: France, 1350-54
- Condition: excellent, sharp detail
- Dimensions: 1-1/4” diameter (excluding bail and jump ring)
- Weight: 8.2 grams
$16,000.00
Henri III (r 1575-1589) was the last king from the House of Valois. He was bullied by his mother, Catherine de Médicis, tried to marry Queen Elizabeth I despite being openly gay, and was eventually assassinated by a Catholic zealot.
Charles IX (r 1562-1589) was Henri III’s older brother and was also bullied by their mother Catherine with whom he orchestrated the Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre that killed 70,000 French Protestants.
François I (r 1515-1547) was France’s Renaissance king, known for building projects such as the Châteaux at Fontainebleau, Amboise, and Chambord, and for bringing Leonardo da Vinci (and the Mona Lisa) to France in the artist’s later years.
Charles VII “le Victorieux” or "le Bien Servi (“the Victorious” or “the Well-Served”) (r 1422-1461) was put on the throne through the efforts of Jeanne d’Arc who helped him win the Hundred Years’ War. The coin was minted right around the same year Jeanne was burned at the stake for witchcraft.
Henri IV “le Grand,” “le Bon Roi,” or “le Vert Galant” (“the Great,” “the Good King,” or “the Green Gallant”) (r 1590-1610) was the first king from the House of Bourbon. Though he was originally a Protestant, he converted to Catholicism to claim the throne, famously remarking “Paris is worth a Mass.” He pardoned all Protestants with the Edict of Nantes and was promptly assassinated by yet another Catholic zealot. He was called “le Vert Galant” because of his prowess with numerous simultaneous mistresses even at what was considered the very advanced age of 56.
Henri II (r 1547-1559) was responsible for bringing the previously mentioned notorious Catherine de Médicis to France as his bride. He created the world’s first patent system for new inventions but spent much of the rest of his time cutting out the tongues of Protestant ministers or burning them at the stake. All three of his sons became Kings of France, including one that Henri married off to Mary, Queen of Scots. He was struck in the eye with a lance during a jousting tournament and died of sepsis and brain damage.
- Origin: France, 1429-1610
- Condition: excellent; sharp detail on coins
- Dimensions: 8” long, 1-3/16” maximum width
- Weight: 37.8 grams.
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- Origin: France, ca. 1880
- Condition: excellent
- Dimensions: 1-1/2” x 3/4”
- Approximate Diamond Weight: .12 carat
- Weight: 4.7 grams
$12,500.00
- Circa 1940
- Condition: excellent, all original
- Dimensions 7” circumference; strap, 1” wide; buckle, 1-1/2” wide
- Weight: 90.7 grams
- Approximate Total Gemstone Weight: ruby, 4.5 carats; diamond, 1.0 carat
$435.00
- Origin: England, ca. 1900
- Condition: excellent, all original
- Dimensions: 1-1/8” x 1-1/8” on the diagonal; 7/8" x 7/8" on the square
- Weight: 4.7 grams
- Approximate Amethyst Weight: .68 carat.
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- Origin: America, ca 1955
- Condition: excellent, music box in working condition
- Dimensions: 1” x 27/32” x 1/2"
- Weight: 22.1 grams
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- Origin: America, ca. 1925
- Condition: excellent
- Dimensions: 25-5/8” long
- Weight: 3.6 grams
$1,250.00
- 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
- 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
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
$2,450.00
- 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
$2,950.00
- 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
$1,450.00
- 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
$1,995.00
- 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
$4,500.00
- 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
$1,495.00
- 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.
$1,725.00
- Origin: France, ca. 1890
- Condition: excellent
- Dimensions: 1-1/16 x 1-1/8”
- Approximate Total Diamond Weight: .75 carat
- Weight: 8.9 grams
$595.00
- Origin: England, ca. 1860
- Condition: excellent
- Dimensions: 3/4” x 9/16” x 1-1/4 (excluding jump rings)
- Weight: 5.0 grams.