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oh my word that's amazing well this is the most wonderful our Deco broo tell me who it was made for well I think it's my mother's 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 a 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 r Deco period doesn't it what what parts of it did you think Deco 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 a 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 are 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 a lot 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 is 1200 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 oh my word it's lovely crazy about it yes yes 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 stators would have worn Tiaras quite often and broaches like that a typical form for 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 don't go to those sort of things nowadays as a brooch or in your hair oh no as a brooch 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 shall I tell you how much it's on my insurance for do go on 400 400 well it's only 20 times the amount this is true talk about the right piece in the right box I doesn't it look lovely against that blue velvet beautiful it does it does my mother remembers uh her great aunt wearing it and she had a very ample bosom and used to often wear black velvet gowns shimmered spectacular yes yes well the I mean the big feature about this AP from patter is a lovely flower spray broch is that the center flower cluster is Mount on this coiled spring it literally scintillates when you wear it so it sets off this fantastic Shimmer one of the features about all Victorian jewelry is how immensely practical they were and if you take out the blocking I never realized that was there well it's it's a nice little touch that the victorians were excellent at doing what it meant was that you could remove the center at the back and you could sometimes convert it to be worn in this case as a spray for the back of the hair so it's just an extra little feature and they were supremely practical people you could do all sorts of different things but as I say it's a late Victorian piece it's mounted up in silver and gold lots of diamonds set all over it total carot weight probably about 7 carats now I think if it was offered in auction because it's got the all the fittings and the case it would probably achieve in the region say 25,000 to £3,000 now bear in mind that's auction and I think if you expected to buy it in a retail shop with the mark up on top of it you'd probably be looking at perhaps around about £6,000 for it 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 emerald and diamond brooch that very geometric rectangular look would date that to AR deos he's absolutely right for round 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 the art deco brooch is wearable top quality Platinum mounted at auction it would probably go up to around about 2 and 1 half to £3,000 the light here shows us how very white these diamonds are because this is a diamond par of jewelry par 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 bag get 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 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 very fashionable in the 50s to wear clips very much so and in the 30s too were they and you could imagine how striking that would look 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 35,000 region terrific thank you very much indeed thank you too thank you 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 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 no I have some other pieces come from Emanuel of Portugal um Kaiser Bill all the visitors to sandre all the visitors to Bing 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 Roy Society let's have a look at these are Russian ones and a pair of cufflinks with rubbies 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 a 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 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 yes and you know exactly who gave those I think it was our 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 had 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 wasn'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 that's very touching isn't it my goodness he looks quite sort well it doesn't he 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 broaches or pends I think what has happened and rather sadly is that when these adaptations have been made to turn them into Roes that the marks had been lost but these are very characteristic of fa's work we call this guos enamel and it's an engine turn gold Mount that's flooded with translucent pink enamel and then the the Imperial Eagle is applied as a gold Cipher of an above that in every way they're positively R 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 bro 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 a most distinguished thing again the use of the GE enamel yellow enamel in this case and two colors of gold little Laurel wreaths and um tied with the 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 Masters initials um for AUST 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 cufflinks 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 Provence 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 Absol 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 N Things that I don't really want to sell you see I want to keep and they yes cuz they're family pieces well I think in a way they should be kept together as a collection should they that's context everything here in Provence actually what about this one any ideas for that one well if these are that price that must be ,000 well it is £10,000 and it's more than £10,000 is it y it's £5,000 my dead chat it's wonderful that's amazing I never realized it would be much of that I must confess 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 Jack anything that she thought nice sparkly thing and then we took it to a Julie's en Chantry Lane to get the class sort of repaired a little bit mhm 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 was probably not only this bridge 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 yupa 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 there a strange little sort of twist like a question mark at the end which is 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 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 I 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 broaches 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 roach it's 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 and just going to look a little bit for Hallmarks Russian Hallmarks almost always appear um on on the clasp of the um of the Jewel and along the pin which is strange and yet there are more here and it's totally good that I did check that actually because there are the initials of the maker there Theodor Laurier 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 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 piece and yeah and uh he 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 scrapping it's 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 £10,000 for insurance yeah dear me 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 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 had you got a clue about its its meaning hidden meaning uh well I I no I hadn't really no 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 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 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 well an incredible collection of jewelry and when did you start collecting all of these oh about 35 years ago 55 and how many have you got all together 700 700 and they all br um most there 700 broches 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 and what about these what what are those tell us about those oh those are Are Mother's Day presents of my children mother they're bit sort of scratchy aren't they do you know what they are yes aren't rabbit's claws no no they're grass's Claws and do 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 o scratchy as these no those are quite scratchy too aren't they boy oh boy and 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 emperor and things do they make you feel like an empress or not no they don't no I just feel what's the most different one here come on um tell me about that one where did 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 bagg get diamonds and Brilliant diamonds and it could the original could um have been made by well indeed it would have been by katier or Buon or something like that and had it been set with diamonds and being as imaginative as that instead of being2 it might have been 20,000 my God I'll have to find a real one good that be very good well I think you will in the end cuz you're so determined aren't 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 brilliant isn't it it's brilliant colors it's very it's like a s pomegranate isn't it Fab I nearly wore all 700 on this all 700 you would have been clunking away like mad wouldn't you you remember Brans re Williams no The Shakespearean actor oh right well his his sister left 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 ey eyes what are those stones in it eyes the cat's eyes so um which is absolutely perfect but it's just it's beautifully made the back is gorgeous all lovely but the thing is it is it's an owl with humor as well well whoever designed this has really given it a you know the tilt of the body has given it a certain gen qua which they usually don't have plus it's a wonderful subject and uh well I love it do have it insured 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 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 doesn't it yes 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 egrets 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' be the bell of the ball wearing your Egret the word Egret is um a Corruption of the word Egret because the feathers came from the Egret 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 it was my grandmother's 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 Snuggly the torto shell comb is gone well it's a positive blaze of diamonds isn't it I is wonderful wonderful um you can see along the bottom here what we call a gallery yes which just raises the diamond work up when it warn as approach 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 oh then the silver settings are let into this and tubes of silver and each Diamond set into it 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 TOS 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 a 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 portioned luy chap my grandfather bought them for for my grandmother over the years and I think he must have bought them in London um it's very tricky with Jade issues with Jade you have to bear in mind are color uniformity of color through the stone shape of the stone size of course patina if you get a piece of Jade that's very scratched and you get one that's very smooth and perfect it's considerably more valuable for being a perfect Stone than one that might have a few abrasions on it but you know when we when we look at these two that's a piece of Jade it's fabulous isn't it yeah this one here have you noticed it's got a slightly slightly wedge wedge shape it's almost as if it's been polished slightly off and that does affect the interest a little yeah then you've got this Splendid Deco Jade brooch where I think they must have taken a couple of pieces of Chinese jade that have been carved set them in little settings of diamonds this flash it's almost like a geometric bow and then you've got these calibra black little he stones in between and this color combination the black the white the green was very Deco yeah now let me just have a look at these J pieces cuz these are a fantastic color aren't they these are wonderful ah now one small anxiety I've got and I I'm sure well I'm sure you have noticed it that's got a crack running all the way through it in fact the mount's been made to uh hold it because it's got more claws on that side and they're very thin slices aren't they these are the sort of things that would have been done in China and you know you can wear them as clips for but these made into a moving on to the question of values it's not easy if that wasn't damaged it would be enormously commercial but the damage does affect the price obv I I think that in that condition with the crack across it my instinct is that this is probably worth something around £4,000 um yes this one here um with the wedge yeah you know I love the Polish it's on a 1925 bar with the diamonds on the shoulders that one there I think it has to be worth the same sort of money I'm absolutely thrilled many thanks thank you thank you should I tell you what I think it is I think it's a snowflake oh right I think it's a snowflake bro 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 G 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 Lake 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 range 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 retail shop it would probably sell today for £ 6,000 to 6,500 that's my feeling about 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 tappers yeah with the old old money my mom said she want me something nice so brother bought that well clearly a flower brooch Austrian these flashy little white stones they're diamonds I know 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 M stone is that's purple amethyst quarts so all real gems white gold tiny Diamonds In A Flash Austrian circa 1960 1965 go on value yeah if you were setting this in an auction today £500 no way every way possible very very pretty little Gro right thank you very much thank you very much indeed now tell me exactly why you brought this BR the Antiques Road Show well I was told it was valuable but I wasn't just sure and I came to get the truth the truth the truth well the truth as you know has to be used with great economy in life and I'm going to tell it to you just as it is what were you told about this stes in this bro well I was told it was a brown Diamond mhm well they were absolutely right it's a brown diamond and white diamonds at either end and in a way it's rather remarkable for that we don't see colored diamonds very often in life to be perfectly honest we don't see rather large diamonds in life very often do we uhhuh tell me whose was it it was an aunt of mine mhm and she was the same name as myself so I ear it well that's wonderful isn't it I'm just lucky you did have the same name actually you might have bypassed you and it's not something one would want to bypass in life because it's very very glamorous object indeed I think it's worth saying about diamonds is that the white diamonds is what people really want blue white diamonds even better uhhuh then when they look inside they want to see it absolutely Flawless in the inner depths of the stone and they'll use a Diamond Glass to determine that using quite a a high magnification to look into the inner recesses of the stone uhhuh then of course they look for sheer size and in diamonds and this is a very respectable size it's probably about two carats something of that sort and it's a curiosity have you ever seen a brown Diamond before no and my aunt wore it and she said it wasn't a diamond well I'm she said that's not a diamond well I'm absolutely confident that it is and um and and it's a very exciting thing for me to see actually it is of course the hardest material known to man it scratches every other material in the planet and there's a guide to Heart called Mo's guide of hardness where every stone is used to scratch another Stone The Diamond is at the top of that resplendant at the top whatever you do to it you cannot scratch it and then second on Mo scale is the sapphire and the diamond is seven times harder than the second layer down but what we can say is that this is a remarkable thing to find today and to tell you also that the cutting of the diamond is a a 19th century late 19th perhaps early 20th century cut and it's been put into a brooch rather later on so it lived in another Jewel before as indeed its little partners at the end did and it's a Shaw pin for for a very elegant lady in about 1900 so a remarkable object in every sense of the word so we've got to get down to the nitty-gritty the Nitty Gritty hardness of diamonds and get down to hard facts about Finance go home bring up the insurance company and say you want to cover it for £ 2,500 uhuh right that's surprise that's good I went to a church um antiques for and I saw it in the cabinet and I think it must have been my husband's birthday goodness and so I thought oh I'll buy that that'll do nicely now his name isn't Nelson is it no no but we got a good idea who who it is haven't we did you did you know what it was when you bought it well I just thought it was a tie pin just that yes and well it is of course a type in and it's a very exciting type in with the most amazing context I mean can you guess that it's context you must have thought about it oh yes the gentleman who did sell me it said it was connected with Nelson but he he didn't uh elaborate too much and I can't really remember what he did say no well the great thing is that you really did get it and it's terribly terribly exciting I think that what's important to look at first of all is the way in which the word Nelson is laid out in Black en the the it's sha L enamel that means the gold lettering is raised up and then it's flooded with black enamel and it's in a way in which morning Rings were phrased in the early 19th century and that's a clue to the fact that this is a very personal relic of Lord Nelson um he died on the 21st of October 185 at the Battle of trafala and we know this only too well really and his big mistake was going on board wearing his medals because he was a sure um Target for enemy fire and of course he he did receive enemy fire and he was shot and fell and um nonetheless the battle was was one and I think it's perfectly possible that this may have been from a very close relative of his um so it's rather heart stopping isn't it it is really yes considering it was one of the last things we we thought about bring is that right well I'm very glad that you did really um because it's positively luminous I mean I I think um jul is a very funny thing you can say that the most magnificent piece of diamond set jewelry is jewelry and you can say that something very intimate and and and exciting and relatively worthless is jewelry too this has no intrinsic value whatsoever I mean if it was melted down it wouldn't be worth £15 can you remember what you paid for it on that day I was trying desperately to remember and I didn't know whether it was £8 or perhaps a little more than that well whatever it is you over did it obviously it certainly wouldn't have been very much no well Heaven alone knows what it's really worth I mean there are great collectors of Nelson memorabilia they're great colle collectors of Napoleon memorabilia and I think that if this turned up at auction caused quite a stir and um I don't really know what to say to you I can just tell you that this is a very small almost radioactive piece of British history one that's terribly terribly exciting for me to find and I'm going to venture 4 to 5,000 on it oh my goodness well I'm just amazed I'm thrilled I'm completely thrilled I love it as soon as I saw this box which was lurking in the bottom of your handbag it said something very specific to me yes I realized it must have done I couldn't believe you 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 charm little Bridge 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 Fabish here 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 at all not really it's one I don't recognize at all it's a faint green so 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 green Zer on but the point about this stel really is not anything to do with intrinsic value CU 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 at very low value and the gold is course completely negligible but it's heightened with a little flash of yellow enamel 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 Fleck ground there oh I see I haven't really studed it that closely not even when your daughter read fa you had a closer look then I think I really believed it no you didn't believe it well we got to now I'm afraid cuz it Jolly will is I mean it's really an extraordinar wonderful find really see that funny little Hall Mark there um stands quite simply for Carl 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 it's highly likely to have been sold in London I can date it between 193 and 1915 from the lid satin it says Odessa here that Branch didn't open until 19 3 it's rather like an archaeological site there's lots of s of pools on it tiny tiny brooch 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 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 40 today I think it might be worth £8,000 kind a weak at the knees good gracious

Channel: BBC Antiques Roadshow

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Id: VFoUIVIaie4

Length: 39min 14sec (2354 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 20 2024