Value Of Fabergé Brooch Shocks Owner | Antiques Roadshow

W kind of weak at the knees good gracious 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 charming little bro 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 the 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 Fab 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 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 cuz 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 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 sort of flect ground there oh I see I havn't really studied it that close not even when your daughter read Fab you had a closer look then think go 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 extraordinar wonderful find really see that funny little Hall Mark there um it 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 for 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 is 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 193 it's rather like an archaeological site there's lots of sort of pools on it tiny tiny bro and you think well what 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 shot 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 the knees good gracious for

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Length: 4min 13sec (253 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 19 2024