Really special piece: a beautiful original Art Nouveau period pendant necklace designed by Archibald Knox for Liberty and company and this pendant is contained in its original Liberty and company box designs.
Archibald's style bridged the Art Nouveau period, and Arts and Crafts movement with a lot of his inspiration from the Celtic Revival movement.
This piece was made c1905 to 1910 and is set in eighteen-carat yellow gold and platinum, set in the centre with an incredible oval-shaped moonstone set in a rub-over setting. It is decorated with old round-cut diamonds in this beautiful artful and leaf design, incredibly contained in its original box over 100 years after it was made.
Unique and rare ring made in England c1770 to 1800, in the Georgian period.
It is set in a fine eighteen-carat yellow gold and silver setting, and is set in the centre with a single cushion cut diamond set within ten claws.
The weight of the diamond is three carats and fifteen points.
It is the way that the ring has been handmade with the mixture of the gold and the silver, and considering the age of the ring that makes this a one-of-a-kind, unique and special piece.
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.
Superb original Art Deco period one-of-a-kind ring.
It was made in England c1920 and is set in a fine platinum setting with a wonderful piece of coral stone in a panel shaped setting set within four claws.
The shoulders are decorated with black enamel on each side and are further set with small old round cut diamonds in an Art Deco geometric style pattern.
Really unusual ruby and yellow sapphire set ring made in France c1950.
It is set in a fine eighteen-carat yellow gold setting and is set in the centre with a beautiful rich oval cut ruby stone set within six claws.
Exceptional early 20th century sapphire and diamond set pendant necklace made in France c1905 to 1910, set in a fine platinum setting and coming with its original platinum neck chain.
It is set in the centre with an old round-cut rich blue sapphire stone surrounded by a single row of old round-cut diamonds.
It has a beautiful pierced broad border, an outer row of square French-cut sapphires, and four larger diamonds on the outside.
Even the bezel at the top, which holds the chain, is set with emerald-cut sapphires.
Exquisite and rare late Victorian 4 row natural choker pearl necklace, made c1880. It has a beautiful platinum and eighteen-carat gold oval shaped centre piece. It has a wonderful old cut oval shaped diamond set in a fine 6 claw setting in the centre which is surrounded by numerous old cut diamonds in a beautiful floral fretwork design. The centre panel which is also the clasp is light in weight and should sit perfectly on the neck. The natural pearls are not graduated in size and measure 3 mm and are of excellent colour, texture and quality.
Beautiful original Edwardian period pendant necklace. Made in England c1915. It is made in 18k yellow gold and set with oval and pear shaped citrine stones in a fringe style setting.