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All Items : Estate Jewelry : Silver : Period : Pre 1950 item #769696
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Beautiful silver filigree bracelet with 8 panels each featuring a different figure in carved and painted bone. Marked CHINA, circa 1930. With a slide clasp. It tests positive for at least 900 silver. Substantial at 49 grams and with excellent detail. Great size -- 1 1/4 inches wide and 7 1/8 inches long clasped. Excellent condition. Photos enlarged to show detail.
All Items : Popular Collectibles : Nostalgia : Jewelry : Pre 2000 item #741521
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Sumptuous six strand beaded necklace with graduated dark gray labradorite beads with iridescent flashes of blue and green, hammered silver beads, and a carved horn clasp with hammered and worked silver overlay decoration. Probably Scandinavian, with the look of a Monies piece. With a complex asymmetrical design, and can be worn several different ways. The silver tests positive for sterling using jeweler's acid. A very wearable and neutral statement piece. Wearable length is 19 in...
All Items : Estate Jewelry : Silver : Deco : Pre 1940 item #705642
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A beautiful vintage sterling necklace with brilliant rhinestones in channel settings, in flexible links with detailed engraved decoration. Circa 1930. With a slide clasp and safety chain with a spring ring catch. Marked STERLING. Substantial at 53 grams and drapes beautifully. The links are connected at the inner edge and fan open at the outer edge.

14 1/2 inches long clasped and 1/2 inch wide. Overall excellent condition. All the stones are bright with the exception of three in one lin...

All Items : Estate Jewelry : Silver : Arts and Crafts : Pre 1920 item #704934
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Beautiful long necklace in silver with 60 graduated genuine moonstone oval cabochons in open settings. 1900 - 1910. Not marked but tests positive for sterling silver. Classic Arts & Crafts form and materials. It is a continuous strand but can be worn doubled as shown on the necklace form, by using a necklace shortener clasp or an extender chain clasped. I can provide a shortener or extender if you like. The stones have fabulous luminous opaline color which is not completely captured in the ...
All Items : Estate Jewelry : Silver : Deco : Pre 1930 item #704927
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A fabulous and dramatic silver necklace with webbed strands which fall asymmetrically in both the front and the back, longer in the back. Circa 1920. Period illustrations frequently show necklaces designed to highlight a low neckline in both front and back. With brilliant lead crystal unfoiled stones in openback settings. The metal tests positive for sterling silver. With a spring ring clasp without a thumb tab, a common early 20th century clasp. A stunning look.

Wearable length is 14 in...

All Items : Estate Jewelry : Silver : Deco : Pre 1940 item #697979
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A fabulous fringed necklace, wearable for day or night, in sterling silver with very big glittering purple openback and unfoiled glass stones in prong settings. Circa 1935. The clasp is marked STERLING and the other elements test positive for sterling. The color is much more intense and slightly warmer than the photos depict. Huge stones, statement necklaces, and the color purple are all very significant current fashion trends. Also perfectly of the moment because it is a classic Art Deco p...
All Items : Estate Jewelry : Silver : Deco : Pre 1940 item #697976
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Beautiful sterling articulated necklace with many glittering crystal round and baguette stones and a pendant with a huge brilliant peridot green glass openback and unfoiled stone. Marked OTIS STERLING. Circa 1940. Substantial at 49 grams. The green color is much more intense than the photos depict.

A classic collectible Art Deco piece, and currently perfectly of the moment as well. The fashion world is in the midst of a major Art Deco revival, with top houses such as Marc Jacobs, Lanvin...

All Items : Estate Jewelry : Silver : Arts and Crafts : Pre 1910 item #697967
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Adorable and sweet silver pin in the form of a turtle with beautifully variegated turquoise stones on its back, and red cabochon stones as eyes. Classic Arts & Crafts materials and form, circa 1900 or earlier. The pin back is gold, and may have been added or replaced more recently. A very charming little piece.

1 inch long by 5/8 inch wide. Excellent condition. Photos enlarged to show detail.

All Items : Estate Jewelry : Silver : Deco : Pre 1910 item #697957
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A beautiful and early sterling pin in the form of a salamander or lizard, with green and colorless paste stones. Marked STERLING and with an illegible additional mark. Circa 1900 or 1910, with an early C catch and safety closure. Possibly French.

A classic collectible Art Deco piece, and currently perfectly of the moment as well. The fashion world is in the midst of a major Art Deco revival, with top houses such as Marc Jacobs, Lanvin, and Gucci showing jewelry and accessories with a glamor...

All Items : Estate Jewelry : Silver : Deco : Pre 1930 item #697951
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Exceptional and large bracelet in sterling silver with thick carved onyx rectangles and "Peking glass" cabochons simulating jade. Circa 1930. With filigree connecting links and sterling backs. The metal backs of the green stones are marked STERLING. With a spring ring clasp. Possibly French or German.

A classic collectible Art Deco piece, and currently perfectly of the moment as well. The fashion world is in the midst of a major Art Deco revival, with top houses such as Marc Jacobs, Lan...

All Items : Estate Jewelry : Silver : Deco : Pre 1920 item #697948
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Fabulous early silver necklace with round and baguette paste stones, and a huge cut glass center pendant framed by paste stones. 1900 - 1920. Possibly French. Not marked but tests positive for sterling silver. With a dainty slide clasp also set with stones. The square link side chain is made to fall slightly to the sides so the stones on the chain are visible from either side. From a Philadelphia estate.

A classic collectible Art Deco piece, and currently perfectly of the moment as well...

All Items : Estate Jewelry : Silver : Deco : Pre 1930 item #697946
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A classic Deco set, circa 1925, with 17 brilliant clear spheres of undrilled genuine rock crystal wrapped in thin silver wires, with tiny silver disks on either side of each sphere, connecting to jump rings. The carved crystal stones are each 13 millimeters in diameter. The screwback earrings have prong set faceted rock crystal stones at the top posts. The metal is not marked but tests positive for at least 800 silver. The crystal spheres glow and refract and reflect in the most fabulous ...
All Items : Estate Jewelry : Silver : Victorian : Pre 1910 item #697937
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Stunning heavy and substantial early silver wide curved link bracelet. Marked 835. Austrian or German. Circa 1900 or earlier. Substantial at 53 grams. With an ornate Etruscan revival design comprised of many large and small applied silver beads. With a slide clasp and safety catch. The backgrounds of the curved links have a fabulous oxidized gunmetal finish.

7 3/8 inches long and 1 1/4 inches wide. Excellent condition. Photos enlarged to show detail.

All Items : Estate Jewelry : Silver : Deco : Pre 1930 item #697139
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A beautiful and early vintage sterling brooch in the form of a turtle, with a huge cut glass center stone, clear paste stones, and red glass stones as eyes. Circa 1920. Not marked but tests positive for sterling silver. Possibly French.

A classic collectible Art Deco piece, and currently perfectly of the moment as well. The fashion world is in the midst of a major Art Deco revival, with top houses such as Marc Jacobs, Lanvin, and Gucci showing jewelry and accessories with a glamorous graphi...

All Items : Estate Jewelry : Silver : Deco : Pre 1930 item #697137
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A fabulous and early vintage sterling necklace with square cut crystal stones and a huge pear shaped cut crystal drop. The clasp is marked STERLING and the other elements test positive for sterling. Circa 1920. Beautifully made and detailed. The edges of the square stone settings are engraved with delicate patterns. The stones are brilliant and glittering.

A classic collectible Art Deco piece, and currently perfectly of the moment as well. The fashion world is in the midst of a major Ar...

All Items : Estate Jewelry : Silver : Deco : Pre 1920 item #697133
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A beautiful demi-parure consisting of a matching necklace and bracelet in gold washed silver with very big faceted opaline glass stones, prong set, and bezel set in the center of the necklace. Marked SILVER. Circa 1900 - 1920. Possibly French. A very unusual design, and I have never had opaline stones this big before. They have fabulous pink and blue tones which are not completely captured in the photos.

The necklace is 16 1/2 inches long and 3/4 inch wide. The bracelet is 6 1/2 inches lo...

All Items : Estate Jewelry : Silver : Victorian : Pre 1900 item #697102
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Beautiful antique Renaissance revival necklace in gold washed silver with garnets, wired genuine seed pearls, and glass cabochons simulating Persian turquoise. Austro Hungarian, very late 19th century. Marked with crown symbols in a cartouche and also marked S in a cartouche.

Substantial at 50 grams and drapes beautifully. Fabulously ornate in design; even the jump rings connecting the links are decorated with a tiny silver beaded rosette. With a slide clasp and safety catch. A stunning a...

All Items : Estate Jewelry : Silver : Edwardian : Pre 1910 item #697096
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Lovely sterling bracelet with very large apple jade stones. Circa 1900. Marked S, for sterling silver. With a light gold wash. Decorated with finely detailed repousse designs depicting stylized flower forms. With a slide clasp and safety catch. An excellent piece to wear alone or to layer with other jade bracelets.

7 inches wearable length by 1/2 inch wide by 3/8 inch deep. Excellent condition. Photos enlarged to show detail.