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All Items : Estate Jewelry : Gold : Pre Victorian : Pre 1800 item #1476643
Kensington House Antiques
$3,750.00
A stunning Georgian floral pendant worked in silver-topped 18K gold. The radiating petals are studded with diamonds in the newly fashionable “a jour” or open settings that came into vogue around 1800. The selection of diamonds is a virtual history of early diamond cutting and includes rose cuts, Mazarin cuts, table cuts, and Peruzzi cuts. The flower is centered with an unheated cornflower blue sapphire, likely of Ceylon origin. The back of the setting is ornately engraved in a sort of starburst pattern. There’s a small hole in the back of the setting that would have held a long pin attachment so the piece could be worn as a hair ornament. The flower has been converted for wear as pendant with the discreet additional of a hidden bail. Tested and guaranteed 18K gold.
  • 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
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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 : Art Nouveau : Pre 1900 item #1476641
    Kensington House Antiques
    SOLD
    A very good French Art Nouveau 18K gold watch pin in the form of a mythological creature that appears to be a dragon with outspread feathered wings. The details are beautifully worked. The reverse is engraved to match the front. The creature grasps an antique cushion cut diamond in its jaws. The pin retains its original watch hook on the back. This piece could easily and inexpensively be transformed into a pendant with the additional of two pendant hooks at the wingtips. The back is marked with French 18K gold hallmarks, an illegible master goldsmith’s mark, and a design number indicating that the piece was made by a renowned maker of the period.
    • 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
    All Items : Estate Jewelry : Gold : Art Nouveau : Pre 1900 item #1476640
    Kensington House Antiques
    SOLD, PLEASE VISIT US AGAIN!
    An elegant Art Nouveau bracelet worked in 18K gold, each link is the form of a pansy enclosed in a scrolling border. The Victorian floriography (the “language of flowers”), the pansy represented the sentiment “think of me.” Jewels with pansies were often given as a romantic gesture or by the parents of a young woman upon her marriage. The bracelet is stamped with 18K fineness marks and an unidentified goldsmith’s mark.
    • Origin: France, ca. 1900
    • Condition: excellent
    • Dimensions: 7-7/8” long; 1/2" wide
    • Weight: 16.4 grams
    All Items : Estate Jewelry : Gold : Pre 1980 item #1476639
    Kensington House Antiques
    $1,995.00
    A wonderful and very rare vintage 14K gold charm depicting a golf course under a glass cover. The clubhouse is at the top and the 18th hole is at the bottom. In between, there’s a sand trap and water hazard. There’s also a small ball bearing and just like the old-fashioned kids’ game, the idea is to gently manipulate the charm to get the ball to drop into the 18th hole cup while avoiding the sand trap and water hazard. The details are highlighted with colored enamels. But most charming of all is the engraved inscription on the reverse: “April 15, 1950 to April 15, 1975 25 years of playing a ‘round’ with you. Love Joe” The rim is marked with Dankner’s hallmark.
    • Origin: America, 1975
    • Condition: excellent, no enamel loss or dings
    • Dimensions: 1-3/8” diameter (excluding bail).
    • Weight: 18.4 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
  • All Items : Estate Jewelry : Gold : Edwardian : Pre 1910 item #1476630
    Kensington House Antiques
    $1,095.00
    An elegant round bangle bracelet in 14K gold, the front set with three sapphires separated by natural baroque pearls. The gold is delicately pierced in a lattice pattern at the back and sides and in a floral pattern at the front. The sapphires have a very attractive violetish-blue color. Stamped with Alling’s hallmark.
    • 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
    All Items : Estate Jewelry : Gold : Retro : Pre 1950 item #1476627
    Kensington House Antiques
    $2,195.00
    A 14K gold and natural ruby Retro figural brooch worked in fashioned as a stem of cherries. The fruit are fully three-dimensional and set with round unheated natural rubies. The design is finished with a gnarly branch and a pair of gold leaves. The rubies have fine clarity and intense color, without the pinkish cast frequently seen in rubies in Retro pieces. The back retains the original pinstem and clasp marked “14K”.
    • 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
    All Items : Estate Jewelry : Gold : Victorian : Pre 1900 item #1472512
    Kensington House Antiques
    $1,650.00
    A classic Victorian 14K yellow gold fob seal, the surfaces ornately decorated in a repousse pattern of flowers and foliage. Fobs in this design are more typically English than American. It is very generously sized to make an impression when being worn. The citrine plaque is engraved with the monogram “WKV”, so we’ll just assume that was for William K Vanderbilt (LOL!) The ring is marked “14K.”
    • Origin: America, ca. 1840
    • Dimensions: 1” x 7/8” x 1-1/2” (excluding ring)
    • Weight: 19.5 grams
    All Items : Estate Jewelry : Gold : Art Nouveau : Pre 1910 item #1472511
    Kensington House Antiques
    $795.00
    A nice Art Nouveau 14K yellow gold signet ring that appears never to have been engraved. The shoulders are enhanced with scrolling foliage leading up to the oval face. It’s very unusual to find a signet ring that was never engraved. Tested and guaranteed 14K.
    • 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
    All Items : Estate Jewelry : Gold : Victorian : Pre 1900 item #1472510
    Kensington House Antiques
    $2,895.00
    A very fine 19th century French 18K gold locket, the cover in a very three-dimensional design of overlapping geometric shaped enhanced with calibre-cut Persian turquoise, seed pearls and rose cut diamonds. The turquoise are all original, and a few are have taken on the darker greenish cast often found in Victorian-era turquoise. Additional scrollwork, beading and engraving completes the design. The original bail is set with pearls. The back cover opens to reveal a glass-enclosed compartment. The locket is stamped with French 18K marks and an unidentified goldsmith’s mark.
    • 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
    All Items : Estate Jewelry : Gold : Victorian : Pre 1900 item #1472508
    Kensington House Antiques
    $1,895.00
    A lovely late Victorian 18K gold locket enhanced with ornate pierced arabesques and pearl-studded laurel wreaths. The pearls have particularly nice color and luster. The cover opens to reveal a glass-enclosed compartment for a portrait or other keepsake. A small piece of cloth soaked in perfume could have been added behind the pierced cover to provide a bit of relief from the smelly Parisian streets of the 1800s. The original bail is also set with seed pearls. Stamped with French 18K gold marks.
    • 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
    All Items : Estate Jewelry : Gold : Victorian : Pre 1900 item #1472507
    Kensington House Antiques
    SOLD, PLEASE VISIT US AGAIN
    A very fine and moving 18K gold and enamel locket in loving memory of Francis Mary, Viscountess Forbes who died on Christmas Day, 1877. She married the Viscount Forbes, 26 years her senior when she was just 21 years old. She was predeceased by her husband, and though she never became a Countess, their son inherited the title Earl of Granard. The locket was likely made for her granddaughter-in-law, Beatrice Mills Forbes, an American heiress who was Viscountess Forbes at the time of Francis Mary’s death. Lady Forbes led a rather fascinating life, as Queen Victoria’s confidante and one of her longest-serving Women of the Bedchamber (1837-1874). Even in her later years, she remained an Extra Woman and was called to Court for special occasions.

    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.
    All Items : Estate Jewelry : Gold : Retro : Pre 1960 item #1472137
    Kensington House Antiques
    $1,675.00
    A wonderful vintage 14K yellow gold charm featuring a gem-set heart and key. The symbols are an acrostic puzzle for "Key to my heart." The heart is bordered with rubies and centered with seed pearls. The head of the key is set with a ruby, a sapphire, and an emerald. The background is enhanced with a satin finish and the disc's edges have a rope border. The back is marked for 14K gold.
    • 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.
    All Items : Estate Jewelry : Gold : Designer Signed : Pre 1950 item #1472136
    Kensington House Antiques
    $3,995.00
    An outstanding 18K gold pendant set with an amazing enameled alpine scene by Carlo Poluzzi (1899-1978), the greatest Swiss enamellist of the the 20th century. Poluzzi sometimes used the very difficult technique of applying translucent enamel over an engraved gold plate to produce brilliant sunrise or set effects as seen in the left side of the sky in this example. This required multiple coats of different colored enamels which increased the likelihood of unwanted cracks during the multiple firings. Poluzzi was perhaps the only enamellist capable of this technique in the 20th century, and indeed, the scene is signed at the lower left. Of course, this example is also signed at the lower left. In the 1920s, Poluzzi (still in his low 20s) became the master of Emaux de Genève, the provider of the highest quality enameled dials and cases for luxury horlogers such as Vacheron & Constantin, Patek Philippe, Rolex and Gubelin. This plaque is set as a pendant by the Gubelin. The Holbein-style setting features square cut rubies and emeralds amid swirling gold foliage. The gemstones are of very fine quality with intense, saturated coloring and excellent clarity. The reverse is stamped with Gubelin’s hallmark and the Swiss gold mark for 18K.
    • 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
    All Items : Estate Jewelry : Gold : Victorian : Pre 1900 item #1472135
    Kensington House Antiques
    $225.00
    Swiss Silver Niello & Gilt Silver Watch Chain An excellent late Victorian silver watch chain with striped niello decoration on the double bar links, alternating with silver gilt curb links. The chain is finished at one end with a dog clip and at the other with a large niello bolt. The chain is stamped with the Swiss mark for 800 silver used 1882-1934.
    • Origin: Switzerland, ca 1900
    • Condition: excellent, niello intact
    • Length: 16-1/4”
    • Weight: 15.2 grams
    All Items : Estate Jewelry : Gold : Victorian : Pre 1900 item #1472134
    Kensington House Antiques
    $225.00
    A nice late Victorian silver watch chain with striped niello decoration on alternating links. The chain is finished at one end with a dog clip and at the other with a bamboo-shaped t-bar. The chain is stamped with the Swiss mark for 875 silver used 1882-1934.
    • Origin: Switzerland, ca 1900
    • Condition: excellent, niello intact
    • Length: 17-1/2”
    • Weight: 21.0 grams