8 Greatest Jewellery Finds From '90s Antiques Roadshow | Antiques Roadshow

surprised yes that's a lot of money um it started with my mother wearing flowers and father getting tired of the cleaning bills and bought her one and she saw him off on embarcation leave and lost it uh he never returned and basically ever since we've been trying to find the original so this has been going on for about 40 years Well you certainly brought along some extraordinary examp I suppose these are the crem CR of the collection they are of course Victorian posy holders so that the Victorian young lady could carry her flowers without soiling her shammy leather gloves this I think is a a most remarkable one it's gold the most beautiful filigree work and it's I would imagine Chinese because the box is Chinese and it does appear to be the original box and this one I would think well really I suppose the period of all of them is around the 1860s to the 1880s but the workmanship on that is really quite Exquisite they all have this pin through to hold the bouquet firmly in place this is another gold one set with semi-precious stones the handle is a Blood Stone an amethyst at the base beautiful Victorian original case and on the cover the monogram of Queen Victoria vagina at imp treat CH Royal crown made by gard's Crown Jewelers that's a really beautiful one yes this is another interesting thing I think that uh that's my favorite is it really that's uh and it's got some little Hall marks on it here which it's Russian yes 56 standard which I think roughly equates to 14 karat gold and you never seen a Russian one before it's anyone I've ever seen and that's uh a lot of fun isn't it again in its original case which is always very nice to see and then this quite remarkable thing I I'm certain that this must be Indian because his filigree work is very typical and one can imagine some Indian bride smothered in this silver jewelry and carrying this bridal bouquet in Imitation of the English Style and uh does this do something interesting yes you run screw that and there you have a holder so you can put it down and shake hands with your guests at the wedding reception uh it's very difficult to place a value on these because one doesn't see them very often I would estimate that the gold ones are probably worth around 2,000 each and the silver ones and mother and the other ones that we have here probably between 500 and ,000 each I can't even guess at this one but it's certainly a remarkable collection and uh have to find somebody with small enough risks yes are you going to keep adding to it hopefully is now tell me exactly what 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 the stones in this BR 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 color diamonds very often in life to be perfectly honest we don't see rather large diamonds in life very often do we tell me whose was it it was an an of mine M and she was the same name as myself so I eared it well that's wonderful isn't it I'm 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 uhuh then of course they look for sheer size in in in diamonds and this is a very respectable size it's probably about two carats something of that sort and it's a curiosity uh 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 AB 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 hardness 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 m 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 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 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 £22,500 uhuh right that's surprise that's super good it's beautiful isn't it look at it gleaming in The Gleam of gold there this is actually approach but it broke so I use it as a necklace but I will have it repaired one day it's worth it I think they're rather fascinating aren't they were they your great grandmothers they were my great grandmothers yes and came down to me from from Germany from Germany yes I think what's significant about this jewelry is that it's made of of filigree and granulation yeah which is um typical of all types of folk jewelry from the Mediterranean up to the north countries in Denmark and Scandinavia the bracelet itself is a later addition because the color of the gold is different and the phrasing of the metal yeah I wonder and yet there are holes here for stitching or at least some kind of textile and I I it's my idea that this was once a hair bracelet that there was tightly woven lock of hair supporting this bracelet around it around it and this is what we very often find that of course this is perishable and wears out and yet a gold clasp remains and so they string it onto perfectly sensibly gold bracelet but hair I'm pretty certain that it was actually that's interesting it's an idea we're totally at odds with in the 20th century but it must have been strong hair well I think it was I think it really was well good good Tonic Hair you see that's what we want but anyway um they they're marvelous survival but oddly enough having opened your little Pandora's box of of jewelry here it's not the jewelry that you have in the case that's interesting me but it's the necklace you've got around your neck can we can you take that off yes let's have a really good look i s belongs to what we thought it belong became part of it yes yes I think it's not actually part it's similar the class if you look at it it's similar to well it's decorated again with with with these tiny granules of gold which gold is the most mysterious um commodity because you can solder granules of the tiniest tiniest dust likee um proportions to the surface of gold and give it this this very interesting texture and that's been going on since very ancient times and the have erroneously been called muff chains they're not they're not muff chains they because they were long it was assumed that a muff would hang on it and put your hands to it and it's quite nice to be able to sort of demolish that terminology once and for all because they simply are not muff chains they're simply there for decoration it dates from about 1840 and it's this one that's really disproportionately valuable because complicated gold jewelry not easy to wear in the 20th century and these two um fascinating as they are they're worth low hundreds of pounds say 350 450 for the class bone and with a bracelet £500 but this one put it down on your little inventory for £2,000 surprised yes good came across them uh about 12 years ago in Edinburgh in a cual shop that's nice and and was there did they tell you anything about it history at all well there was a label on it saying it was almost certainly almost certainly heard that one before yeah tell me almost certainly what what was certainly made for Queen Victoria in morning for Prince Elbert and uh I want you to believe that well I think it's not terribly likely actually because although they're very beautiful Jewels they're not quite s of sumptuous enough for a queen I don't think and um it's called Chon L enamel which means literally a raised field and the enamel is filled the reserves where the engraving tool has gone and it's picked out rather nicely with these crowns and I think probably the crowns have given rise to the idea that this is a piece of Royal morning jewelry um it's rather interesting that you bought them in Scotland because they're set with K Gores and uh of course Victoria and Albert had very strong associations with Scotland and they enjoyed finding these raw rock crystals and having them polished and it created something of a craze at that time I think there's a very strong possibility that they are morning Jewels for Prince Albert but they may have been made to a royal order to be given to somebody of lesser stature and my guess is that these are probably for a particular lady at court and Prince Albert died in 1861 and the queen was utterly grief stricken she wrote to her uncle King leapold of the belgians saying my life as a happy one is ended the world is gone from me and then then afterwards until she died in 19001 she was preoccupied with her grief and her mourning so these would have been an appropriate thing the date of 1861 is absolutely perfect for the style and work of these Jewels so I think in a way it's sort of credible we just slightly missed the the the ball step or two down not a real big lie it was just a small lie yeah a small lie well those sometimes so very necessary in life aren't they really but I'm not sure they should be brought into Commerce really I what you wanted to wear them when you bought them did you you did you find them wearable yeah I find it but only when I wear black I think it only looks good on black yeah I think it's actually Splendid that you're wearing jewelry there far the English very frightened of wearing jewelry today and and and you'll show them how it's really done so that's great it's a bit difficult here in your yire when you live in your yorshire no I don't it walks for the fields no no I think it's brilliant to see you walking through the fields got rather like Mary Queen of Scots I think wearing that wouldn't you brilliant brilliant idea so come on we're all itching to know what they cost in Edinburgh six years ago he didn't tell me I'm hearing tell you now I'm hesitant to say it's going to have to tell you now I paid something in the region of £3,000 for it which probably makes you gasp no it doesn't no it doesn't make me gasp it's quite a full price without doubt but the thing is that there's no good sort of chasing Bargains or one's life and if you really want good things you've got to pay for them and there's an old um saying in the Antiques trade that one really only regrets one Bargains one never regrets one's extravagances you certainly shouldn't regret this this is lovely lovely jewelry thanks for showing it brilliant thank Youk I brought it local auction rooms just a few weeks ago Here Local to North Wales yes how much did you pay £120 well certainly when I saw the name Franklin Duke Street St James's London very good name in indeed it's a soire this is what they're called so Toto and it would have been worn as a long necklace round the neck and the ends of it would literally extend down right the way to the waist and they were very popular from about 1895 particularly through to around about 195 they're real PS oh oh so you've got a woven line of a sort of platted spiraled line of real pears oh lovely look at the diamonds because that's what they are in these caps you've got these finals these sort of terminal points here they look like little caps but each of the lines are set in silver with tiny tiny diamonds Rose cut diamonds Rose cut ones right and then each of these sort of terminals suspends at the bottom a series of rubies they're all set in Gold yes alternating with little cubes that's right and each of the cubes is individually set with more tiny diamonds diamonds right and then suspended at the end of the last Ruby is yet another tassel terminal with more diamond in the cap all silver set by the way and then a series of real pear Fringe drops but the Staggering thing about all this is that you've managed to acquire a fairly important piece of jewelry for £10 because I think that if one was selling this it would probably make £3,000 oh my goodness me that's a lot of money well talk about the right piece in the right box I mean 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 well the I mean the big feature about this part from the fact that is a lovely flower spray brooch is that the center flower cluster is mounted on this coiled spring it literally scintillates when you wear it so it sets off this fantastic Shimmer one of the features about all vict torian 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 carrot weight probably about 7even 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 of 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 markup on top of it you'd probably be looking at perhaps around about £6,000 for originally it was my grandmother's and when she died at the family um gathered around the table and had to sort out her jewelry and uh my mother being the eldest had the first choice she chose this it's um Platinum set with pure white diamonds in what are called meal gr settings they're called meal gr literally a thousand grains because a thousand grains apparently hold each of these absolutely pure water white diamonds into the framework of of what is a wonderfully articulated Jewel yes I'm almost sure it's French it's such fantastic craftsmanship made in about 1900 and um of dazzlingly refined craftsmanship today it's exactly the sort of diamond jewelry that people want it's not ostentatious it's wearable um and it's beautifully made and it's pure white so it's a very valuable thing indeed it's worth about 8 and 1 half to £10,000 for insurance it's really crucial to work out precisely when this bracelet was put together now just been talking with our jewelry expert John Benjamin and he confirms that the gold mounts with the fittings and the composition which is a very classical shape would have been made in MA Georgian period it dates from the end of the 18th century or perhaps around about 1800 and that's really very important because the pieces of glass which it's formed of uh contain decorative techniques um which weren't reinvented by the venetians until the middle of the 19th century prior to that they hadn't been made Roman times so what we're looking at is a collection of fragments of Roman glass bed together at the end of the 18th century so do you know part of its history at all I don't really all I really know is the fact that it was left to me by my mother and prior to that I believe it was given to my mother by an old Aunt hers but apart from that I would love to know it history just come down in the family as a as as a little piece of jewelry I mean when the pieces of glass were discovered they would have come from archaeological excavations as fragments of wonderful pieces of Roman glass bowls jugs and vessels when they were found they certainly didn't look like this when we turned the back over it show was the unpolished surface here is how the glass would have looked U these little fragments are in their War state by being in the ground glass decomposes and develops a silvery iridescence as a result the um collect polished them again and by repolishing as the Romans had done originally the colors inside the glass come out and these are the colors from uh they all date from round about the first century ad so we going back to almost almost two millenniums I suppose ago and to think how they did it the techniques here really were wonderful some methods of making glass the um patterns they contain well there this one here that's Miller Fury individual canes you all seen the glass paper weights um which contain little pieces of rods of glass light colored sticks of lock assembled together here they've made little patterns in the glass and fitted them around that would probably been a Whole Bowl made with that pattern all over it next to it even more remarkable we've got um Lino this is individual twists little candy cane twists of one color glass set within clear so the yellow glass twisted up and lay down side by side and remelted into the side of a bowl or a jug and um so many techniques which uh became forgotten no one knew how they were doing it um the Romans were able to practice so many techniques that we always think of as Victorian ideas because no one knew until then how it was done here right at the end that last piece um contains there's a flower head um and other patterns of little flowers and Beads all made of colored glass um they would have rolled that little flower in one colored glass petals and then melted it all in together to form the patterns and these would have been marvelous extremely valuable Treasures in their day um the complete bowls were really quite wonderful um very few survive in intact condition a few have come from excavations complete they were normally repolished and put on display in the museums but collectors were glad to hold just fragments of them because even the little pieces are scarce and they show technology that the Roman glass makers invented and then the techniques came lost for a long long time I mean these pieces which were assembled they were shaped to fit into a nice piece of jewelry and here a collector had this made at a time when there was a great deal of interest in the um Roman World um the excavations at Pompei had been working maybe some of these fragments had come from excavations like that who knows this might have been part of The Suite of a match matching necklace and another bracelet once that's of and how these came in the 18th century to think the pieces are even older and we've got a very valuable piece of jewelry because it has value for two reasons the glass pieces are precious even fragments of these rare glass are valuable because we complete bowls are worth hundreds of thousands of pounds it just don't exist um very rarely come on the market even fragments are worth hundreds of pound each some of these pieces alone can be worth many hundreds of pounds adding those up together got a fair bit and mounted in such a wonderful way in a period piece of jewelry which is so smart um somewhere perhaps 6,000 to 10,000 it's just love it's beautiful I definitely won't wear it now that

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Length: 22min 10sec (1330 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 16 2023