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Antiques & Uncommon Treasure
Best of the BEST! 17th to 19th c. French sterling silver, Georgian jewelry, sewing etc
$1,491 USD SaleSALE Antique French 18K Gold Sapphire Etui, 4" Pendant 23.9 Gr
Antique & Vintage Jewelry:Antique
NOTE: April 19, 2011 gold value is up to $1500.00 per oz. August 9th, gold value is $1801.00 per oz. No doubt this once held a cigarette holder - something elegant and long and VERY stylish. The etui you see here is nearly 4" in length, heavy French made and with all guarantee marks for 18K yellow gold. This seems very roaring '20s to me, but is likely earlier, turn of the century, when Art Deco made its Paris debut. The French never skimpted on style OR on gold (or silver) guage, hence this one ...
$421 USD SaleSALE Unique Antique Victorian Shell Cameo Pendant, French 18k Gold
Antique & Vintage Jewelry:Antique
I've never seen a carved shell cameo presented in this fashion, and kind of wonder if she isn't someone's favorite cameo (for obvious reasons - she's beautifully carved), and perhaps she's been remade to remove the usual pinkish shell background which may have been damaged - or perhaps she was just, well, made this way. The form-fitting mount is entirely in 18k gold, with a diamond-shaped losenge mark that looks very French, but it says "750" rather than being an eagles head or one of the other ...
$506 USD SaleSALE Vintage Pearl & 14k Gold Earrings Pair, Leaf & Seed
Antique & Vintage Jewelry:Vintage
Like seeds resting on a leaf, these beautiful large earrings are sure to delight. With a decidedly tropical paradise feel to these, I'll be wearing them in Hawaii next week, taking all compliments. These are fabulous! Made for pierced ears, and nearly 1.5" total length and with pearls that are 6mm in diameter, nicely matched and of high lustre - certainly comparable to Mikimoto sets we've had. The earrings are not Mikimoto, however; simply making comparison in pearl quality (I've worn these with ...
$124 USD SaleSALE Vintage 14k Gold and Red Coral Cameo Ring, Size 2 3/4
Antique & Vintage Jewelry:Vintage
Red coral is all the rage this summer, and summer's not over yet no matter what your calendar is telling you. Where I live, summer is endless! The lovely little Italian souvenir cameo ring from someone's Grand Tour can be your own souvenir now. It's tested and guaranteed 14k gold, and the carved cameo's profile, small as it is, is lovely. Very good to excellent condition, there are no chips or flaws in the carved cameo. A lovely cut-away design to the mount and it's just a lovely vintage ring ...
$149 USD SaleSALE Vintage 18k Gold and Red Coral Cameo Ring, Size 6 1/2
Antique & Vintage Jewelry:Vintage
Red coral is all the bomb this summer, and summer's not over yet no matter what your calendar is telling you. Where I live, summer is endless! The lovely little Italian souvenir cameo ring from someone's Grand Tour can be your own souvenir now. It's tested and guaranteed 18k gold, and the carved cameo's profile, small as it is, is lovely. Very good to excellent condition, there are no chips or flaws in the carved cameo. A slight rope-twist to the framing mount and it's just a lovely vintage ring ...
$421 USD SaleSALE Vintage 1920s 14K White Gold & Diamond Ring, Mine Cut
Antique & Vintage Jewelry:Vintage
In the raised & reticulated lacy 14K white gold setting, this c. 1920s engagement ring must have thrilled the woman to whom it was first given, don't you agree? A small but beautiful .25 - .33 carat mine cut diamond looks much larger than it truly is in this mount. Ring is size 6.5, can be easily sized up or down. Beautiful on the hand! Very good to excellent condition. I don't know the rating of the old mine cut diamond but it faces up bright and firey. The box is vintage, not original to this ...
$124 USD SaleSALE Vintage 14k Gold, Blue/White Sapphire Ring, Antique Box
Antique & Vintage Jewelry:Vintage
A pretty little sapphire ring. Perfect for a pinky or perhaps as a child's first 'fancy' ring. The gems are cobalt blue and also white sapphires and are bright and festive. All well set and prongs are strong & sure. We've put it into a lovely early 1880s velvet covered ring box, though it's not original to the ring, and so if you don't need the box, plan on us buying it back from you for $10, and we'll send ring out without it. It's a fine gift idea, and what could be more appealing than an ...
$166 USD SaleSALE Victorian Mourning Brooch, Bullseye Agate Cabochon, Enamel
Antique & Vintage Jewelry:Antique
Big, bold, and perfect to wear with your stunning black/white evening attire, or dress it down against your white Tahari shirt as a top button at the neckline - wow, this one just kicks! It's not gold, so very afforable, and no one will know that the famous Victorian gold mimic, pinchbeck, is what you're wearing. A wonderful big bullseye agate cabochon set into the center of this target brooch makes it draw every eye, believe me - quite unique. Yes, that is a natural stone you see - not enameled ...
$421 USD SaleSALE Valentine! Vintage 18k & Diamond Heart Pendant, Chain, Box
Antique & Vintage Jewelry:Vintage
It's that time again, already! And we're here to help you thrill your own Valentine with this superbly beautiful vintage heart pendant (c. 1900-1950), 18k gold and set with a shawl of diamonds that are an echo in the oversized bale, too. A fine gold chain and the old original heart-shaped presentation box, case, also attend it. Something old, something new - maybe this one is for a bride-to-be? A lovely old treasure, very well kept and in fine form. The box is navy blue velvet outer, and hails ...
$336 USD SaleSALE Victorian 10K Mourning Brooch, Antique, Black Enamel & Hair Art
Antique & Vintage Jewelry:Antique
"IN MEMORY OF" - And yet another of our amazing collection of antique mourning jewelry (slowly working through crates of antique jewelry so please keep coming back to see more as we list). This is an early Victorian all original mourning brooch, one made with the usual addition of a locket with hair art, and an elegant piece of jewelry if you're not the least squeemish over such things. Alas, most of these bits of the past are now no more than poignent collections with a little glimpse at ...
$676 USD SaleSALE Vintage Estate 10K Gold & Diamond Cocktail Ring, 1.5 carat t.w.
Antique & Vintage Jewelry:Vintage
In the bold statement of this10K heavy yellow gold setting, this c. 1960s-90s diamond cluster cocktail ring looks new - gold is stunning and ring is heavy, solid. A nice cluster of small but beautiful diamonds all channel-set, with a result of looking like a waterfall of sparkling diamond droplets - very pretty! Total weight of the diamonds exceeds 1.5 carats. Ring is large and heavy gold, (6.9 grams) can be easily sized up or down. Beautiful on the hand and a fabulous gift idea! Excellent ...
$421 USD SaleSALE Victorian 12K Mourning Brooch, Antique, Black Enamel & Blond Hair Art
Antique & Vintage Jewelry:Antique
Brilliantly arranged blond locks, often a child's light coloration in these old ones, and the style is quite French, as well. Yes, yet another of our amazing collection of antique mourning jewelry (slowly working through crates of antique jewelry so please keep coming back to see more as we list). This is an early Victorian all original mourning brooch, one made with the usual addition of a locket with hair art, and an elegant piece of jewelry if you're not the least squeemish over such things. ...
$336 USD SaleSALE Vintage 9k Gold and Red Coral Necklace, Chain, Pendant - Etruscan styling, 14" delicate chain w/coral
Antique & Vintage Jewelry:Vintage
A wonderful antique to vintage red coral necklace chain and pendant with a decidedly 'Etruscan' feel to it, this chain is made for the pendant and repeats the coral all along the chain in 2mm carved beads of natural coral - stunning! the larger pendant 'drop' has recesses for carved coral balls of 4mm to 6mm, and are confirmed, guaranteed to be of natural red coral. Worn along with some of our other red coral offerings (see our bracelet, rings, earrings all listed separately), you're going to ...
$336 USD SaleSALE Victorian 16K Gold & Seed Pearl Mourning Brooch, Hair Art - Blond and with dedication engraved on back
Antique & Vintage Jewelry:Antique
Dated on back 1860, this one is squarely in the Victorian era and would have been high fashion in mourning and memento circles. At 16K yellow gold and with tiny well-matched and high lustre natural seed pearls, it would have been a very special bit of jewelry even then. The woven blond hair you see showing in the beveled glass aperture might well represent lost children, or perhaps, since we see no black in the mourning or memento piece, it might be simply the intertwined locks of a young bride ...
$1,101 USD SaleSALE Victorian Mourning Locket, Tortoise Shell Double, RARE Big & Long Tortoiseshell Chain with 18K Gold Wire
Antique & Vintage Jewelry:Antique
An amazing find! This is an early Victorian era locket, still with the cover glass on the one side and open area on the other just as original (the one side of locket recessed a bit into the open side so I'm sure it is open in the same way it was originally made and that there was not another glass-covered aperture on the right). And as if the tortoise shell locket itself were not thrilling enough, this one has a complete long and big chain also of Victorian tortoise shell that is further ...
$251 USD SaleSALE Vintage Channel Set Diamond Eternity Ring, 9K Hallmark - English made, 12 diamonds for over 1/2 ct. total
Antique & Vintage Jewelry:Vintage
A lovely ring to wear alone or clustered with other rings, this channel-set diamond 'eternity' ring will thrill you at least that long. The diamonds are bright, brilliant, and while I have not had them graded, the vintage ring's fire and light certainly is a testament to the nice quality they possess. All 12 diamonds are well set, facing up with nicely facet-cut crowns of light. The ring is a size 6 3/4US, and can easily be sized up or down to fit. A lovely vintage one to mark any occasion. Very ...
$251 USD SaleSALE Lovely Estate Diamond & Ruby Channel Set Ring, 9K
Antique & Vintage Jewelry:Vintage
A lovely vintage or estate quality ring that's far more glamorous than price would indicate. The ring is marked and tested at 9k yellow gold, and is set with rubies and tipped with diamonds in an Art Deco-look with crossover style and channel set stones. Heavy gold band, and beautiful from any angle. The ring is a size 8 1/4 - 8 1/2 USA size, suitable as a right hand ring or larger finger ring for any occasion. Very good to excellent condition. The prongs are all strong, the stones nicely ...
$209 USD SaleSALE Lovely Vintage English 9k Gold, Sapphire & Diamond Ring
Antique & Vintage Jewelry:Vintage
We have several lovely little rings to sell, vintage English ones that came to us in a jewelry lot purchased specifically for 2 little rings in the mix that I thought my little granddaughter would love. Turns out she loves all of them, so we're just selling a few. This one is a vintage lovely, diamonds and sapphires in a beautiful design and setting. Marked within, though we can't get a clear view of it. The ring tests 9k gold and is yellow in color. Stones are pretty - a lovely little treasure! ...
$251 USD SaleSALE Large Antique Georgian Mourning Brooch 10k, Seed Pearl & Jet
Antique & Vintage Jewelry:Antique
Usually when we see blond locks within a mourning jewellery item, we realise the mourned loved one is a small child. And it's often true for most of us that, while we might have been blond as a toddler, our hair color changes to darker blond or to brown as we grow to adulthood. The presence of blond hair in this beautiful old Georgian to very earliest Victorian era (c. 1810-40) mourning brooch can't be confirmed to have been that of a child, since we have no engraving to confirm it, and no ...
$166 USD SaleSALE Lrg Victorian Foil Paste Carbuncle Stick Pin, Domed Box, Etui
Antique & Vintage Jewelry:Antique
In the original domed and gold-embossed leather presentation case, this extra large and impressive carbuncle or cabochon of foil-backed paste is a dead-ringer for a large garnet, and looks far far more opulent than its separate parts (or price) add up to. The mount is pinchbeck, that grand Victorian mimic of real gold, and with the addition of the pristine old Victorian presentation case, it's wonderful for gifting or for display. In this size, a cravat or scarf pin, or hat pin as well as lapel ...
$158 USD SaleSALE Antique Victorian Double Strand Red Coral Necklace
Antique & Vintage Jewelry:Antique
What could be more popular in our day than this wonderful and informally charming double strand of Victorian raw-cut and drilled coral branches made up into a 2-strand necklace. Casually elegant, the perfect color and form to wear dressing up or down. The necklace is mid-late 1800s, survives beautifully and is immediately wearable as it is. The claw-tube clasp holds tight when latched, and is made of brass rather than karat gold. Beautifully matched for color and quality, the beads of natural ...
$336 USD SaleSALE Antique 14K Gold, Onyx, Seed Pearl Pendant & Chain
Antique & Vintage Jewelry:Antique
A beautiful mourning pendant from the late Victorian to Edwardian era, set with a highly polished Jet or Onyx oval that is further adorned with the seed pearl 'tears' of the original owner who mourned someone they'd lost all those years ago. Now it's a lovely pendant to wear on any occasion, stylish and elegant at the same time. We've added a 14k chain, which is not antique, but it will come along with this particular pendant or lavalier jewelry item. A nice large bale up top will allow you to ...
$209 USD SaleSALE Antique 10k Gold Ring, Seed Pearl & Turquoise, Box
Antique & Vintage Jewelry:Antique
I've got such a backlog of beautiful little Georgian to Victorian era mourning rings piling up here around me, and I'm going to simply list them with barest information. Mourning jewelry of the 1700s to 1800s are highly collectable, rich with symbolic devotionals. Seed pearls represented the tears of the lost loved one's survivor who wore the ring in memory. Some are fitted with other gems as well. Will note the variations and details for each ring: A little Edwardian, 9k gold set with seed ...
$251 USD SaleSALE Antique Victorian 12k Gold Mourning Brooch, Pendant
Antique & Vintage Jewelry:Antique
Sentimental jewelry, 'mourning' jewelry (jewellery), of the Georgian to Victorian era can seem a bit strange and even macabre to the new collectors, but consider that even today jewelry items are made to commemorate the loss of a loved one, or even a pet. Yes, it's true! A whole industry exists now to make diamonds from cremains (cremation remains). You can even pick whether the diamond will be fancy (colored) or not. Prices are out of sight, of course - mourners are known for not watching price ...
$141 USD SaleSALE Antique Victorian Brooch with Large Red Coral Beads
Antique & Vintage Jewelry:Antique
A charming antique Victorian brooch in well crafted flattened pillow-like round beads of natural red to salmon coral, set into a one of a kind lost-wax cast brass mount that is of an allow that mimics the brightness of gold, but isn't gold. The mount has been tested, is not gold despite the look of it being. Large and impressive brooch. NOTE: The red coral is a talisman for protection of the wearer from harm. Coral has long been thought of as a protective amulet. Going back to ancient times, it ...
$506 USD SaleSALE Antique 22K Gold Georgian Brooch, Persian Turquoise
Antique & Vintage Jewelry:Antique
A big and superb piece of antique jewelry is this deeply domed Georgian era brooch of beautifully designed and crafted 22K gold, culminating in a stylized berries cluster that is made up of Persian turquoise. The brooch is beautiful, big and brilliant as only the finest old pieces are. We've had some amazing antique jewelry lately and this one is certainly a stand-out, as well. Yes, we're expanding our inventory to include superb pieces of antique and vintage fine jewelry, so do keep watching. ...
$676 USD SaleSALE Antique Victorian Micro Mosaic Micromosaic Bracelet
Antique & Vintage Jewelry:Antique:Micromosaic
Set in a wonderful bright gold finish 'pinchbeck' or rolled gold mount, the micromosaic bracelet you see here is meant to be worn and enjoyed. Not a fragile dainty like some we have in inventory, (nor so expensive!!), it's a bit of 'investment' quality antique jewelry that will find itself on your wrist more often than in the vault, I'm certain. Bid plaques, bold and unique setting and links combine to make this one 'sized up' and perfect for today's fashions, as well. And no one will know your ...
$251 USD SaleSALE Antique Victorian Red Coral & 12K Gold 3" Bar Brooch
Antique & Vintage Jewelry:Antique
A charming bouquet of vines and bars present the single carved red coral rose beautifully in this 3" long and impressive bar brooch. The setting is tested, confirmed 12k yellow gold, and the antique box stays with it to protect it, though it is not original to this big beauty. All details in our images. The gift of a red coral amulet such as this is a gift of symbolism that provides protection from harm for its owner and wearer. Coral has long been thought of as a protective amulet. Going back ...
$591 USD SaleSALE Antique French Hair Art Brooch, 18K Gold in Dome Box
Antique & Vintage Jewelry:Antique
Blond strands are often those of children, lost to some childhood disease or other, and though we haven't a proof of it, we suspect this beautiful old mourning brooch might well be a memorial of such a loss. The piece is immaculately kept in a domed jewelry box as you see, though not original to it. But it's certainly been kept with honor in someone's family heirlooms. The mount tests at 18K gold, and the cover glass is intact and unblemished. The guard chain even remains on this one (or was ...
$1,016 USD SaleSALE Antique Georgian Mourning Locket, 3" 12K Gold Frame.
Antique & Vintage Jewelry:Antique
With that beautiful old mat of cobalt blue glass still fully intact, along with the original plaiting of hair on one side and ornately arranged 'sheaves of wheat' made of hair on the other side, this opulent large 12k gold framed mourning pendant or locket is a stunning example of the genre. While it is not completely free of flaws, it is remarkably well preserved for its age and type. The frame is substantial, as noted, and is tested and confirmed at 12k solid gold. There is not a bit of damage ...
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San Marcos, CA
Email only, please: susandean-aut@cox.net
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