Beautiful original Art Deco style emerald and diamond set ring set in the finest handmade platinum setting with a beautiful natural emerald-cut Colombian emerald as a centrepiece set in a milgrain setting.
On each side is a pair of emerald-cut diamonds graduated in size, and the top and bottom of the ring are set with small brilliant-cut diamonds.
It is a beautiful original ring, in superb condition.
Remember... A memory... Forget me not...
In the Italian, as suggested by the spelling of Dicembre 1897.
Beautiful piece of antique jewellery, a real Christmas piece
It is contained in a beautiful handmade leather box and when we open up the box it reveals the most beautiful locket and chain
It was made circa 1890.
It is a really heavy weight and large Locket, and it is made in fifteen carat yellow gold.
At the front of the locket we have two initials, V and C, beautifully executed in a floral design, and these are obviously the initials of the original owner of the Locket. The background behind the initials is further engraved in a very fine detailed floral pattern which highlights the initials to the front.
Then when we turn the Locket around to the back we have the word Ricordo (not the name Ricardo after closer inspection) written on the locket, making it a momento or keepsake, a forget-me-not as they are called in jewellery. And it's beautifully hand engraved again in a floral type design and is dated on the back the 25th of December 1897.
So imagine in 1897 for Christmas Day somebody receives this beautiful locket.
So let's have a look inside the locus.
So what's really rare about this locket is that it's a family locket, so you've got 6 portraits inside.
I feel that the top portrait on the left hand side is the mother of the family and the father of the family on the opposite, and then their four children.
The photographs are beautiful in their detail and they're so small, which would have been very rare and hard to do and expensive to do in 1897.
Then in between the locket and the photos we've got this beautiful floral design and engraved pattern all intertwining in between each of the beautiful portraits.
It was obviously known as a family locket and these are the one family and it is just a really, really unusual and rare piece.
Exquisite original Edwardian period diamond set drop earrings, made in England c1905. They are set in the finest Edwardian platinum and 18ct yellow gold setting with transitional cut diamonds in a loop style setting with a single large transitional cut diamond suspended in the centre
Wonderful original Art Deco period diamond and sapphire ring made in England c1920.
It is set in a fine platinum setting with a wonderful old brilliant-cut diamond in the centre set in a milgrain setting.
This is surrounded by a single row of square French-cut sapphire stones and an outer row of smaller old brilliant-cut diamonds, all in an hexagonal panel shaped setting.
Highly unusual and rare diamond set ring made in Ireland c1880 to 1900.
It is set in a fine eighteen-carat yellow gold and platinum setting and depicts an Irish shamrock.
It is set with three transitional-cut diamonds in the shamrock, set in a very fine clawed setting with small old round-cuts being set in the tail of the Shamrock and in the band of the ring.
The diamond weighs is one carat and twenty points.
Beautiful original Edwardian period diamond and pearl set pendant and chain made in England c1910. It is set in a fine platinum setting with numerous small old brilliant-cut diamonds in a bow style setting which has a single natural pearl and a single oval shaped diamond hanging from it. This is one of the most exquisitely made pendants I have seen in a long time.
One original late Victorian period muff or guard chain.
It was made in England C1880 and is nine carats yellow gold.
It measures sixty inches in length so is long enough to be worn twice or three times around the neck.
Really unusual vintage gold bracelet was made in America c1920-30, in the Art Deco period.
It is set in fine fourteen-carat yellow gold and rose gold, in an open oval link design.
It is a really unusual bracelet, and a nice weight.