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really as much as that that's amazing I'll definitely take you out to dinner oh my word they were my mother-in-laws um and they were in the bank MH and it wasn't until after her death 12 years ago that we discovered this jewelry in the bank so I'm going to start from the most recently made piece and then I'm going to go backwards I'm going to start with this one here emerald and diamond brooch that very geometric rectangular look would date that to Art Deco is absolutely right for round about 1930 yes and during that time you know firms like Cartier and their contemporaries were making very very linear looking jewelry but the emerald in the middle of this piece is a lovely dark blue green color and it's just the kind of color that the market most looks for now the earrings here emerald and diamond earrings are a totally different thing they are in Victorian gold and silver settings where the stones themselves are individually mounted up in gold and they've got diamond frames where you've got these old Victorian cut diamonds probably around about the start of Victoria's reign 1840 1845 Now we move on look at that they are superb are they wonderful emeralds in Canal gold settings Canal is a word that use to describe this kind of very complex filigree scroll work now if I can turn it over and have a look at the back of it there's the cantil work and there at the bottom is a hook and suspended from that hook might originally have been something like a larger cluster the stones themselves are individually foiled and that's another thing to bear in mind they've got this uniformity of bright grass green color but we might find that if you were to remove one of those stones it has a tin foil behind to enhance the color the actual necklace itself we can date to round about the reign of William IV that sort of period so it's that early gosh I'm very taken with that so value now the art deco brooch is wearable top quality Platinum mounted at auction it would probably go up to round about 2 and 1 half to £3,000 the earrings emeralds and diamonds again I'm noting the old cut of the diamonds but they are exquisitely commercial one would be expecting them to make maybe four or 5,000 um moving on to the necklace I think that if it was offered at auction it would probably make about £8,000 really yeah so add those together something approaching 15 to 20,000 I'm thrilled you B them thanks very much thank you should I tell you what I think it is is I think it's a snowflake oh right I think it's a snowflake brooch pendant and the beauty of it is to have this contrast of all the different rainbow colors of gems look at the diamonds they form this nice Flash in between each of the gems themselves but all the gems are different mixtures of semi-precious and precious gems in a snowflake cluster surround now usually when they enclose the back of a gold broach of this sort of period you can see right the way through to the gems themselves this is fully closed in at the back which actually um is a little confusing because I think looking at the stones at the front that this is late Victorian usually when they enclose the whole back of the mount that is usually Georgian but I don't think this is a Georgian bro at all I think this was made in about 1895 so it's a full rain of colorful late Victorian gems in a frame of diamonds and the Middle Stone is a parido but it is individually numbered on the back there and that's good because it shows it's a quality piece made by quality manufacturer I think if it was being offered in a retail shop it would probably sell today for £6,000 to 6,500 that's my feeling about it it was left by an aunt of my husband's and with no idea what it is at sure all these pieces here little piece of opal it's a very good use of opal yes the outside is actually Rose diamonds Rose cut diamonds in fact there's one missing now ah uh and it's Set uh in a setting called middle grain that's all these tiny little beads all around the edges yes uh you've got little buer Pearl at the bottom and an Oriental Pearl you see higher up on the Chain but it's so beautifully made um the annoying thing about about it of course from my there's no Maker's Mark on it so that color is little slices slices off little slices of opal I mean the opal in itself the intrinsic value is very very small but it's such a nice piece yes so I have you got it insured at all not especially no I think you should yes not that you'd be able to replace it but it would certainly hurt me if I lost it so you know talking in terms of insurance values and so on I think you've got to be looking at some around about £3,000 Mark really what said oh yes it's a very unusual piece the balance of this for me is perfect I love the whole shape of it and I'm particularly fond of pendants but is it something that you particularly look at and think this is a very very pretty piece yes it's it's a beautiful piece uh the shape of it lovely and just the emerald drop is absolutely beautiful and remembering that you know it was my mother-in-laws it makes it very special yes I mean all the all the the right sort of ingredients are there you've mentioned what the principal stone is there um they're interesting you know because they're not always fantastic quality the best of them come from Colombia and they are characterized by this very intense blue green color then they get very wishy-washy sometimes and they get so pale that frankly they look like very very pale sort of marked glass but the very best ones come from Columbia and it's got that intense blue green color so looking at the diamonds we've got this what you might call a sort of stylized paret shaped top to it the diamonds themselves are set in individual little settings where you've almost got a cup that grips the diamonds in place the front of it incidentally is all mounted up as you might have thought in this very white finish in Platinum but then when we turn it over look at the back of it we see that it's actually backed in yellow gold I've never noticed that it's yeah it's it's unusual that you see that sort of yellow Mount now that means we can date this probably to round about 1905 after then the jewelry was more or less totally superseded by Platinum so it's quite an early piece for its period on the Platinum chain let me just have a look at that what an emerald I mean it really is a cracking Stone it's a really deep blue green color of an intensity and uniformity that is just what people look for so there's the ingredients the value for something like this is far higher than you would expect to break the stones out for with a lot of pieces of jewelry that are made maybe in the 1950s and 60s there are described as what we call breakup you look at the content of diamond and think well the mount's not particularly beautiful and all I would reckon it at is the breakup of the stones no weigh on something like that that is going to fetch a price based on its beauty and its wearability I think if this was being sold in auction it's going to make something in the region of three £35,000 it's lovely it's lovely it belongs to my daughter so she will be very pleased as you can see they're all little signal flags set with different color gemstones rubies diamonds and sapphires and there one or two other rubies there and these are prob turmalin and citrines very prettily made and each of these is a letter signal flag letter and they're engraved on the back and it smells remembrance doesn't it yes these were toally popular around 1900 and uh were often made by a pH called benzy and cows so this probably was a present from a rather wealthy yach owner to his wife or Lady Love but you should ensure this you'll probably be surprised to know for about uh 2 £2,500 much is that yes yes well an incredible collection of jewelry and when did you start collecting all of these oh about 35 years ago 35 and how many have you got all together 700 700 and they all brooches um most yeah 700 brooches I've got bracelets and where I mean do you wear any of them oh yes some of them which do you like to wear I like that one there that one right and that's a favorite of mine there yeah brilliant and what's the other one and what about these what what are those tell us about those those Mother's Day presents of my children oh mother they're big sort of scratchy aren't they do you know what they are yes aren't they rabbits claws no no they're grass's Claws and they're to do with the shoot the feet of the grass that have been shot were then taken to the Jewel and mounted up it's real oh definitely it's real very scratchy aren't they oo not scratchy as the no those are quite scratchy too aren't they boy oh boy and do you wear those all the time it's a bit like it's a bit like um it's like armor isn't it yeah it's yeah it's yeah wear them all the time and they're a bit sort of Chinese in a way aren't they they like those sort of fingernail guards of Chinese Emperors and things do they make you feel like an empress or not no they don't no I just feel different what's the most different one here come on um tell me about that one where'd you find that I got that off the internet I go through the auction rooms did you and I put a bid in for about two quid and I won it isn't it wonderful so that was a good buy and I like it cuz it's a glass of champagne with bubbles coming out of it which is you know part of being different again isn't it the good good party Jewel but it also makes a reference to jewelry that was going on at the time um this is a jewel that looks to me as if it might have been made in the 30s or 40s and um it's simulating baguette diamonds and Brilliant diamonds and it could the original could um have been made by well indeed it would have been by katier or bushon or something like that and had it been set with diamonds and being as imaginative as that instead of being £2 it might have been 20,000 my God I'll have to find a real one be very good well I think you will in the end cuz you're so determined aren you I've got so many and um that one my daughter bought me that one and I really like that one because you know I think the ones the kids buy were more touching aren't they more it's brilliant isn't it it's brilliant colors it's very it's like a sort of pomegranate isn't it Fab I nearly wore all s 00 on this all 700 you would been cling away like mad wouldn't you well as far as I know it belonged to my great grandmother but I don't know anything more about it she came from Yorkshire and I suppose ladies of her status would have worn Tiaras quite often and roaches like that a typical form for a mid 19th century piece of English Diamond work and the the technically it it it's interesting because on the back it's of gold and yet on the front it's set into silver and it was to be worn in candl light and so there wasn't much concern about the front tarnishing which it does a tiny bit um have you worn it does it got lots of memories for you I bet it has possibly at army dances but I don't go to those sort of things nowaday not as a br or in your hair oh no as a broch it's a wonderful spectacular display of of natural beauty isn't it and very flattering wonderful wonderful thing it's high Victorian it's um it's it's it's really couldn't be a more elegant form and um perhaps put it down on your insurance policy for 8,000 something like that more than you thought should I tell you how much it's on my insurance for do go on 400 400 well it's only 20 times the amount yes it's true do you remember brre Williams no shakespare an act oh right well his his sister left oh right right right that's interesting it is fascinating but I'm more fascinated by this because first of all you very seldom see an owl and people just love owls secondly it is a really beautiful Victorian Diamond owl really sparkly got little cat's eye eyes what are those stones in it eyes they're cat's eyes so um which is absolutely perfect but it's just it's beautifully made the back is gorgeous all lovely thing is it is it's an owl with humor as well whoever designed this has really given it a you know the tilt of the body has given it a certain Gena which they usually don't have plus it's a wonderful subject and uh well I love it do have it inur by any chance probably not yeah for a thousand I think a thousand well I would think that this really should be insured for something like 6,000 I'll definitely take you out to dinner my goodness what a wonderful wonderful colorful Jewel to see what do you know about it well I know that it was most probably acquired by my grandparents my grandfather was a well-known gold smith and silver smith in the early part of this Century um I think that's older he obviously simply acquired it I imagine because he fell in love with it well I can quite see why he would and well it's it's a stunning example of Victorian jewelry at its absolute best and it's a type of jewelry that's often called hbes there was a fashion throughout England in the 1860s to emulate the Elizabethan age and so this is a whole bines Jewel in every sense of the word even the use of the parido in the center is typical of Renaissance jewelry the reason that we call it a whole bindes is because it's Loosely based on hine's designs which are held in the British museum yes but in a more precise way it's based on a well-known Jewel which is kept at Southside house and there is a jewel called The grzly Jewel which must have been famous in the 19th century because parts of the decorative devices are repeated in homage to that Jewel these these stylized flowerheads are on the gz yes this this is enamel work is it noted yes sea L enamel it's again a Renaissance technique where the gold is engraved and then it's flooded with these VI very Vivid colors and it's something that one would expect to see on English Renaissance jewelry at Southside house the the grzly jewel contains miniatures by hilard and it opens from the side to reveal um portraits of of Queen Elizabeth um within in the 19th century homage to it we find on the back Tua roses yes I see is in Vivid red and green sha L namal and what a wonderful thing it is it's in pristine condition I think what's interesting to know about how and James is that it was very famous firm what data did you assumed it was well I had been told it was about 1870 and again the term whole byes was applied to it but any more than that we knew nothing else I don't know if it's even ever been worn that may explain its pristine and condition well I think in a way that's what would appeal certainly to to anybody these days and the value is quite dizzy I must say I think um if it came up a specialist auction one could expect to pay 8 ,000 for it somebody who's really greedy perhaps 10,000 for such a dazzling example thanks nice to know it's a pleasure thank you for looking at it I think when you first look at this um plaque you think it's a piece of costume jewelry because of its shape and style um is that something that you thought of or well I was 15 when I got it um it came in a rather untiy box just of bits and Bobs from my auntie I just liked it so I kept it safe and and occasionally wore it I think it's it's good that you kept it safe um because it does have a value and it's quite a a piece um that you could date quite precisely because of its design and style now first of all this material that looks a bit like a cloud formation or a snail shell um which you might think is just glass is actually rock crystal so it's a natural C Crystal form um the this this flash of color in the center is actually a line of fine Burmese rubies and then the wh stones on the borders of the rubies are of course lovely diamonds so you've got a complete mixture of pressure stones in a natural looking hearstone rock crystal border now it shape is a bit peculiar because it doesn't look very much like well would you wear it as a brooch would you wear it how would you wear it and then you you turn it round found and the explanation is there because it is a lapel clip you've probably seen that if you just there above that little space there is a word have you ever seen that word I've looked at it and it says show show exactly because show were a firm of Manufacturers making jewelry particularly very fine pieces in the 30s and they used to make jewelry that had a tremend ly pronounced style now the firm itself actually goes back way into about 200 years old something like that and they were patronized by Napoleon and they go back a long way and some of their jewelry makes a great deal of money um this clip although it's a fairly modest piece really it's not got a big flash of dime it's not what big chunky stones but because of its Singularity the fact that it signed show made in France and smothered all over the bottom of this clip are the little French control marks so it's got all the right things there we look for Platinum Platinum it's not white gold it would be platinum the Burmese rubies in the center and the quality of the Brilliance flanking the rubies themselves do make it quite valuable so I think if it was sold in an auction we're looking at something in the Realms of £22,000 for it beauti it was a peace offering from my husband after a very disastrous dinner party in which one of the guests he'd invited didn't eat anything I had served and I actually had to send out to the local pub for steak and kidney Pall well it's a very very pretty thing it's as you know Opals beautiful Opals um before about 1850 Opals came from Czechoslovakia and they were horrible dull little things and in 1850 they started opening up the opal mines in Australia and where Opals get this lovely color from this lovely play of color is they're made of Sil and water and it's the water which actually makes the opal because it's like an oil slick you've get this play uh defraction between the different layers of the silica with the water in between and that's sometimes why people think Opals are unlucky because they can dry out so you don't really want to keep them in a very very dry atmosphere and did you manage to find out what your husband paid for no I shouldn't think it was over the top because I don't think it was that big an apology really well I think it was a pretty handsome apology actually because uh for insurance purposes I would value this necklace at somewhere between £5 and £6,000 today what I'm going to have to apologize to him well I definitely think so oh good I just spotted that one actually oh this one oh that was a birthday present well that's a pretty fabulous one as well that I think was reasonably expensive yes that looks like a few thousand well really yeah well that's much more valuable actually because that's a black o for well I think my husband paid about £1,500 for it well he's obviously got a good eye for these things I think I should keep it I have to employ myself well thank you for bringing them anywhere really great I don't believe it my brother bought it from my mom from a uh jumble sale when he was young for 2p 2p yeah 2 old D so tappens yeah with the old old M my mom said she wanted something nice so brother bought that well clearly a flower brooch Austrian these flashy little white stones they're diamonds have enough and turning it over the back of the frame white gold rather beautifully set like a claw on each of these petals petals made out of frosted rock crystal the most stone is that's purple amethyst quartz so all real gems white gold tiny Diamonds In A Flash Austrian circa 1960 1965 go on value yeah if you were selling this in an auction today £500 no way every way possible very very pretty little brooo right thank you very thank you very much indeed it's actually made in England in 1840 this derives from a design conceived by Prince Albert he asked for 12 bridesmaid's broaches to be made out of these materials for the queen to hand out immediately after the wedding ceremony and it's absolutely loaded with um amate significance this is a hand on which a love bird has all lighted it's a love bird made of turquoise and in the language of the lapidary the turquoise stands for true love it's an echo of the color of the Forget Me Not flower and it means forget me not too but also you can see lurking here as a tiny little Ruby eye for the for the love bird and in again in the language of the lapidary this stands for passion so we've got passionate true love and also we want that forever dream on as they say but it's true um in that the fingernails of the hand are actually diamonds and diamonds are forever so this is forever passionate true love in a tiny Jewel like this what does it mean to you well I just love it um wear it and I do wear it yes have you got a clue about its its meaning its hidden meaning uh well I I no I hadn't really no no well in a way that's good fun because I think the point about jewelry is that it does act on us kind of subliminally there's something very deep-seated in us this understanding and we don't have to think about it very carefully and hard but I must say it's hugely animated I mean it really is very sculptural and that's quite rare in jewelry um usually it's very sort of two-dimensional and and um and it is the liveliest composition I've I've seen of this type of jewelry intrinsic value is nothing really absolutely nothing I mean really no more than sort of 80 to 100 pounds in the value of the stones but in the value of the composition 800 goodness I'll still wear it good that's what it's for thank you very much thank you the light here shows us how very white these diamonds are because this is a diamond paru of jewelry paru a set broch and matching drops for the ears the period of design for something like this is very much late 1940s start of the 1950s yes when London Jewelers used to make jewelry like this very white using brilliant cuts which are the round diamonds and in this case baguette cut diamonds and you know the way it is ladies would go to cocktail parties where they would wear their sets of jewelry um sometimes with these drops for the ears you could remove the diamonds and I see you can can't you you have you could wear them as simple cluster Clips on the lobe during the daytime and at night time you would put your baguette diamond drops on nighttime daytime earrings very very practical indeed you've got the additional facility on the brooch that you can remove it from the frame like that you pull back these clip fittings I'll show you there you just pull that like that that dismantles and then you can wear one on one side of your lapel and one on the other they very fashionable in the ' 50s to wear clips very much so and in the 30s too were they yeah and you could imagine how striking that would look yes now you've also brought in something that is utterly different from this I mean you couldn't get two pieces or three pieces that were so different in Design This is um a totally aesthetic piece of jewelry isn't it it's very very subtle it's very delicate whereas this is all Flash and show this is far more gentle do you know about this I mean I I'm I'm assuming that they didn't come from the same place or different times or what I don't know this belonged to my grandmother that I do know so I it won't have come from the same place as this jewelry and my grandmother gave me that when I was 21 the Jeweler who's made this has actually managed to get a range of different colored sapphires these are blue ones and here we've got some pink sapphires and these are almost like moonstones but they're actually like a liquid white colored Sapphire and they're from Salon I would think and that's where you get all these different multicolor sappers and then you've got the frame which is all enameled in bright green very vibrant so there is a sense of contrast between the stones and the frame yes now the key about this is you've got a little carto shaped Makers Mark at the top there yeah that maker Mark tells me that this is a piece of jewelry made by that very famous house who were working in the Victorian times called Giuliano and you had it is it is them it is them did you have a suspicion that it might have been I've never ever had anybody look at it before but um I I hope that it might well I'm delighted to confirm that it is it's not Carlo Giuliano the father it's it's actually the Suns and they've got a slightly different Mark there and we can date this piece to about 1890 it it's getting towards the end of the Victorian period you've also got just as an extra bonus a matching chain to go with it as well although I'm looking at that and that hasn't got a maker's mark on it but this is absolutely right and correct and proper for the period by this maker and it's colorful it's delicate it's wearable and it's deeply commercial oh thank you um right well let's talk about values the diamond clip bro each side here has got about six carats of diamonds that counts to about 12 carats of diamonds so at basic breakup price for this diamond brooch we would be looking at maybe 4 or 5,000 the earrings to go with it the fact it's a set adds a little boost to it as well so I think those earrings are something around the three to three and a half ,000 region and then we move to this now I would like to think uh that if this was being sold the interest would be comprehensive and I think it's probably going to be worth something in the region of £6,000 for this as well yes that's the key name yes terrific thank you very much indeed thank you too thank you well this is the most wonderful our Deco broo tell me who it was made for well I think it's my mothers I think it was a 21st birthday present for her in 1938 oh that's interesting I've got a funny feeling it was made of little earlier than that you know there's various aspects of the design that point to it being just just a tiny bit earlier than that maybe 10 or 15 years it seems to be a um you know positive distillation of the rco period doesn't it what what parts of it did you think looked rco particularly well the oblong mhm and the big diamond in the center right and funny enough it's the sun rays that appear left and right that sort of interested me as a sort of our Deco focus and these strange conventionalized Bunches of grapes this is sort of really a landscape isn't it in diamonds and it's an interesting one too because it's very spirited it's a really great our Deco Jewel but strangely it's English and actually we associate the very best our Deco Jewels with with France and so it's interesting for that too I mean I must say I do love it my goodness it's very enviable because it's exactly the right scale for everybody today I think there's lots of people who wouldn't mind wearing that on a black suit and and because it's so colorless too it's exactly what people want so all of those things do add up to you know something really very desirable indeed and with with desirability comes value doesn't it yes have you had any thoughts about it being what its value is obviously it's well I know it's probate value of 1997 and that's all it was ,00 then yes well it does seem to be very low to be frank I think that this is this is a little work of art it's the finest craftsmanship it's also very very beautiful diamonds so I'm going to go a bit mad I'm afraid are you ready yes I'm going to tell you that it's worth 85,000 P oh my word it's lovely crazy about it yes yes a pair of Ruby and Diamond cufflinks in the form of owl's heads tell me about them well I didn't know they were Ruby and Diamond to start with you didn't no I didn't well that's a very very good start isn't it it's yes and we all want to know who they belong to they belong to my husband and I I bought them for him as a birthday present well what a brilliant thing so gold and silver and rubies and diamonds and I guess they date from about 1910 something like that how much were they when you bought them it's I can't remember exactly but I'm a generous wife but not over the top um about £300 I think £300 well everybody would want these I think they look fantastic on a cuff um they're they're not too noisy and they're not insignificant and very desirable and I'm going to Value them at £1,250 I think I deserve brownie points for year yes you do now when you were given this did you think it was a bro yes I did I I only ever saw my grandmother wear it as a brooch so I didn't think it would be anything else and of course it's got the pin across the back yeah well also at the back there's a little clue to the fact that it was to be worn in another way and I didn't have you ever unscrewed this or not oh no and there it falls away and that's the key to to another function to this very very pretty Jewel it looks almost free without it yes and with in the fitted box in which this was originally sold there would be a long tortois shell comb yes and it could be screwed into the back there and in the same box too would be some enormously long white feathers called egrets feathers EGS yes so you be the bell of the ball before you were married you'd be wearing it in your hair like this oh really yeah and it would have huge white feathers jutting out of the top and you'd be the bell of the ball wearing your Egret the word eget is a a Corruption of the word Egret because the feathers came from the eget the white Egret very spiky very sort of Shaving Brushy looking feathers and very very elegant this was what a girl would wear before she was married in her hair before she was entitled to wear a tiara only only married women can wear Tiaras in their hair right and this would be part of etiquette in what date do you think come on I honestly have no idea was my grandmother mothers and I believe that she inherited it but other than that I wouldn't have an idea no well we're pushing it a little bit further back we're pushing it back to the 1890s probably 1870s to 1890s wow and it's hugely versatile I mean it has lost its feathers they perished long long ago in fact most of the eits perished they were a threatened species because they were hunted to nearly Extinction to get these these wonderful wonderful feathers that's gone The Velvet case is gone in which this would fit snugly the torto shell com has gone well it's a positive blaze of diamonds isn't it I is wonderful wonderful sparkly um you can see along the bottom here what we call a gallery yes which just raises the diamond work up when it's worn as a broach away from the material to let the light come through pierced by hand drawn out with a little Diamond work and then filed Away by an apprentice then the silver settings are let into this in tubes of silver and each Diamond set into a pushed round rubbed round and then cut down we call them cut down settings so it's hugely sentimental one for you really isn't it oh yes yes it's something that'll be passed on to my daughter and hopefully on to hers well that's wonderful but I think we got to just try and make a stab at Value I think um let's put it down at £3,000 for insurance Goodness Me that'll give my husband a shock well it's the right sort of shock isn't it all you got to do is look after it and all you got to do is wear it for him really yes look very Posh indeed lucky chap one story we haven't heard is the is the one about hargate and the Russian royal Family Jewels Princess Alex of Hess when she was engaged to the the zarovich of Russia came to Harriet for treatment for sciatica and while she was here staying in a boarding house the land lady gave birth to twins the Zarina The Future Zarina took this as an good luck Omen and insisted that she'd be godmother to those Twins and she gave a number of gifts at the christening the cufflinks and the nappy pin that she bought here in Harriet and then when she returned to Russia she sent gifts to the family subsequently up until the 21st birthday in 1915 when she sent this beautiful gold cross to the male twin shortly after that of course the the gifts stopped sadly yes the uh Russian family came to a very unpleasant end and that was the end of that story but the beginning of our story because the son of the male twin came to Harriet in 1993 he had no family and he wanted these items to be where they would be appreciated and where they had me and of course here in the Royal pump room Museum in Harriet they have tremendous meaning so they've really come home yes they have they've come home and they tell a very Harrogate story of plumber's son being christened butcher's son being his Godfather and the future zareno of Russia standing as godmother sums up the essence of harriette in its spa day as soon as I saw this box which was luring in the bottom of your handbag it said something very specific to me yes I realized it must have done I couldn't believe it's spotted it so quickly well the reason is that it's made of Hollywood and it's a type of wood much favored by a very famous Russian Jeweler have you any idea who made this charming little BR well when we first found it among my mother's effects uh my daughter was looking at it and she said that's Russian I'm sure it says Fab and I thought I can't believe that because I have no idea where it could have come from in our family no and she was absolutely bang on because in the lid satin and satin it is is a most luxurious object this I mean the case is just as beautiful in a strange way as the object in it this is pure silk at the top and it says K fa St Petersburg Moscow and Odessa and it's an absolute Bullseye it's it's in perfect condition the only thing that's a problem with it is that the pin has broken off and that can be restored quite easily and as you can see very plainly it's in the form of a tiny little heart surrounded by diamonds yes the stone in the middle have you thought about the stone tour not really it's one I don't recognize at all it's a faint green it is a faint green I think it's a ziron it's got a very high refractive index it's it's you know flashes rather rather wondrously and I think it's green zeron but the point about this Jewel really is not anything to do with intrinsic value because I have to say you know the material of it is fantastically modest it's a a green ziron really very low value indeed the diamonds surrounding it a very low value and the gold is of course completely negligible but it's heightened with a little flash of yellow andoun isn't it it's very artistic and if you look under the yellow enamel you'll see that you're seeing through the translucent enamel onto an engraved ground there s of Fleck ground there oh I see I hadn't really studed it that close not even when your daughter read Fab you had a closer look then I think I really belied it no you didn't believe it well we got to now I'm afraid cuz it Jolly well is I mean it's really an extraordinarily wonderful find really see that funny little Hall Mark there um stands quite simply for car Fab and then 56 which is the gold standard running down the back of it is a series of numbers which actually you could live with it a whole lifetime and never see this is engraved with a little steel point and it gives a sequence of numbers which refer to stockbooks I've actually had the time to look at the London stockbooks and check whether this Jewel was in there maddeningly it isn't um if it had been in there we would have known exactly how much was paid for it when was when it was bought and by whom it was bought I think is highly likely to have been sold in London I can date it between 193 and 1915 from the lid sattin it says Odessa here that Branch didn't open until 193 it's rather like an archaeological site there's lots of s pools on it tiny tiny Broach and you think well what's all the fuss about this is of course a heart on a bar and it probably meant love on some level or another it's it's a most lovely lovely find I I I find it very touching actually this is a souvenir of Russia that's long gone by when it was born bought it wouldn't have been a cheap object in any way having said that it's worth next to nothing intrinsically Fab was not a shop um where you expected to buy things inexpensively it was a shop for an an Edwardian Elite really with enormous spending power I mean luminous amounts of money which we can really have no contemplation of either and um and this was a little toy just taken off a shelf for a very specific meaning it would have cost perhaps something like 30 or 40s today I think it might be worth £8,000 kind a weak at than knes good gracious my wife had it for I don't know five six years it's probably come down through the family she was quite happily wearing it as a bit of costume jewelry bit of costume jewelry yeah and what did she wear it on denim jackets denim jacket anything that she thought nice sparkly thing and then we took it to a Julie's en Chanty Lane to get the class sort of repaired a little bit MH and he turned around and said you do realize it's the real thing the real thing and so she's not worn it since More's the pity diamonds and denim yes she really thought a bit about the design I did notice that the two ends unscrewed but that was well they unscrew because there's probably not only this brid but a Cascade of them running the front of a lady's fiercely corseted dress in about 1900 so you think your wife had problems think of um princess yusupova walking around with this not bad is it no not bad at all not bad now I say princess yova because I can tell that this is a Russian brooch by the safety clasp it's a strange little sort of twist like a question mark at the end which is a brilliant device because it stops the owner pricking her finger or more accurately her ladies made pricking her finger because You' never put this sort of thing on your on yourself in pre-revolutionary Russia what we call a stomacher because it runs along the front of the stomach of of such a lady at a at can't think how it could have been more beautiful why what what's the look and just underneath here there's a a break in in the design which I think is where the second and third and I don't know how many more brooches went down to meet it um a tiny little Groove here and also observe the beauty of this Gallery here the Pierce gallery and the fact that the back of the brooch is made of gold and yet the front is of platinum to give the whiteness of the effect I think it's probably quite a late Roo 20th century the Russians is curiously sort of feudal um life they were living there and in the early 20th century things couldn't be more Sumptuous and more Beed and more exotic really so this is a fantastic context really isn't it I'm just going to look a little bit for Hallmarks Russian Hallmarks almost always appear um on on the clasp of um of the Jewel and along the pin which is strange and yet there are more here and it's jolly good that I did check that actually because there are the initials of the maker there Theodore Lauer who is a very well-known aruo Jeweler making things in the manner of laik um serpents and butterflies and that sort of thing so this is a slightly conventional one for him but a very beautiful one now what did the Jewelers um have to say about it they must have admired it very much I think didn't they well they did yes they said it was a lovely pie and yeah and uh even turned around and said I'll give you 5,000 scrap for it I said no 5,000 scrap I said no I don't think so no no I think scrapping it it's not the right word I think we really we've gone beyond scrap too beautiful for someone to break down fabulous context well you know if he's going to offer you £5,000 scrap for it double it up for insurance well they were given to my great-grandfather who was Chef to Edward iith and Queen Victoria at the end of her Reign um by the crown heads of Europe and some of these are the Russian pieces amazing now do you think they were they they were objects given um almost as a sort of thank you to to this that's right yes and is this all the things that you have are there any more have some other pieces come from Emanuel of Portugal um Kaiser Bill all the visitors to Sandra all the visitors bking Palace all the cousins of the British royal family that descended from Queen Victoria in a sense she's Fountain Head of of this sort of societ European Royal Society let's let's have a look at those these These are are Russian ones and uh a pair of gold cufflinks with um rubies and diamonds alternating rubies and diamonds uh and a sort of nugget effect nugget that's that's what I've always been told yes gold nuggets and there's the most marvelous word in Russia used to describe this which is called samuro which means a nugget and uh and it's a very very Russian technique uh much favored by Fab and in fact these are not by Fab and the lid satin rather conveniently tells us that they're made by by somebody called Ivanov um working in St Petersburg and it's certain that they are a gift from the member of the Imperial family because the Imperial family Cipher appears above and do you know exactly who gave those I think it was AR Nicholas he certainly came to London and he certainly went to sandream and there were many opportunities in which he could have offered those tell me about the what you know about him as a chef why was he so favored do you think well he was a Frenchman to start with and I understand he hadd been Chef to people like the Rothchilds and had been sutrum in Devon and um Edward I 7th heard of him and wanted him to be his chef and I think he may have poached him what did he look like do we know what he looked like yes I have a picture here isn't it marvelous and with his family his family with um with mother with his wife and the two daughters my grandmother and my aunt oh it's very touching isn't it my goodness he looks quite sort of well it doesn't here he's brilliant chap I must say and so these were his things well let's just run through them a little bit further have you thought about these ones here well I I have been told that they were cufflinks but they have little rings on as you can see just there and um I really don't know I imagine because they were given to my great-grandfather they must have been cufflinks I feel and because he only had daughters um possibly the daughters had them um made into brooches or pendants I think what has happened and rather sadly is that when these adaptations have been made to turn them into brooches that the marks had been lost but these are very characteristic of Fab's work we call this guos enamel and it's an engine turned gold Mount that's flooded with translucent pink enamel and then the the Imperial Eagle is applied as Cipher over and above that in every way they positively R of Fab but in stamp collecting terms I can't be absolutely certain but I can be certain about this one and does the family history say that that was an imperial gift they do they do say the family told me that that was definitely given by Z Nicholas well I don't think there's any any doubt about that at all and there's absolutely no doubt at all that this is a a full-blown Fab BR it is it's it's signed because I wondered and I you know I sort of half hoped it would be and um that's marvelous well it's it's a most distinguished thing again the use of the G enamel yellow enamel in this case and two colors of gold little Laurel wreaths and um tied with a diamond bow emblematic of peace and and the Roman of crown set with diamonds and circled with pearls and we know it's Fab because on the back here there's the work Master's initials um for August holming who was um not necessarily a specialist Jeweler but but a worker in all all manner of enamel work so goodness me and there's more at home there's more souven yes well a few more yes a few more now as for Value um the cinks are are impressive they're very Russian very Russian technique in the manner of Fab But A Rose by Any Other Name smells as sweet but it certainly isn't as valuable um and I think with an imperial Provence nonetheless they are they are very desirable very wearable um and a very precise provenance so I suppose something like 7 or 8,000 for the cuffing really my goodness gracious me nothing to do with intrinsic value nothing at all these um I believe them to be Fab from a technical basis really and uh has Souvenirs of Nicholas II which is absolutely certain um I think we can go a bit mad again 8 to 10,000 for those you feel calm it's very very good is it making me things that I don't really want sell you see I want to keep and yes cuz they're family pieces well I think in a way they should be kept together as a collection should they that's I cont everything here in Provence actually and what about this one any ideas for that one well if these are that price that must be £10,000 well it is £10,000 and it's more than £10,000 is it y it's £15,000 my dead chat it's wonderful that's amazing I never realize it would be as much of that I must confess

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Length: 48min 17sec (2897 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 01 2024