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.
Exceptionally pretty original antique necklace made in France c1890 to 1900.
t is set in a fine eighteen-carat yellow gold and platinum setting, in an Empire style. It is beautifully set with a natural pearl on the base and a small diamond above.
Then there is this beautiful bouquet of flowers in the gold, and then the flowers are carried far on the original chain also.
Really beautiful original antique ruby and diamond set ring made in England c1920 and set in a fine eighteen-carat yellow gold and white gold setting. It is set in the centre with a rich ruby stone set within six claws. The round cut stone is complemented on each side with a single old brilliant cut diamond in a similar clawed setting.
The ruby weight is approximately sixty points and the diamond weight is approximately half-a-carat.
Really unusual pendant and chain from made in England c1890 to 1900
The pendant and chain are made in nine-carat rose gold.
The pendant itself has a beautiful portrait hand enamelled in the centre with a compartment at the back that can hold a picture or hair or ashes, so it may have been a mourning piece. The locket part is accessed by unscrewing the top of the pendant.
The chain, which is original to the piece, comes with a beautiful barrel clasp at the back.
This beautiful original antique neckchain is from Delphi Antiques un Dublin.
It was made in England C1890 and is made in nine carats yellow gold.
It measures sixty inches in length and is of a Belcher link design.
It also has its original swivel clasp so a locket or pendant can be worn on it if required.
Really unusual single-stone diamond set ring made in the Art Deco period in England c1920. Unusually for the period it is set in an eighteen-carat yellow gold shank with a platinum crown, set with a single old brilliant-cut diamond set in an eight-clawed setting.
The diamond weight here is eighty-five points, colour H, and clarity VS2.
Amazing original vintage ring was made c1950 to 1960. It is set in a fine nine-carat yellow gold setting and a set in the centre with a wonderful emerald cut citrine stone set within four claws.
The simplicity of the stone is absolutely exquisite but it is the way that the gold has been detailed I think that really makes this ring stand out from the crowd.
It has a very Art Deco feel to it in another way.
Really unusual and pretty ring made c1900 to 1910.
It is set in a very fine eighteen-carat yellow gold setting. It is Irish interest because it has two shamrocks on the top of the ring, set in a twist-ring style also known as a toi-et-moi in France.
Each of the shamrocks is set with three natural pearls in a very fine clawed setting.