Seaman Schepps Ruby
Vintage 1950s American Beaded Necklaces
Ruby, 14k Gold
20th Century American Brooches
Diamond, Ruby, Gold
Vintage 1970s American Brooches
White Diamond, Emerald, Ruby, Blue Sapphire, 18k Gold
20th Century American Modern Clip-on Earrings
Ruby, Sapphire, 14k Gold, White Gold
Vintage 1940s American Art Nouveau Brooches
Diamond, Emerald, Ruby, Sapphire, 14k Gold, White Gold, Yellow Gold
Late 20th Century American Cocktail Rings
Diamond, Emerald, Ruby, Sapphire, 18k Gold, Yellow Gold
Mid-20th Century American Retro Brooches
Aquamarine, Diamond, Platinum
20th Century American Modern Cocktail Rings
Diamond, Ruby, 14k Gold, White Gold
Vintage 1970s American Retro Beaded Necklaces
Aquamarine, Ruby, Gold, 14k Gold, Yellow Gold
Vintage 1940s American Retro Brooches
Diamond, Emerald, Ruby, Blue Sapphire, 18k Gold
20th Century American Clip-on Earrings
Ruby, Sapphire, Gold
20th Century American More Earrings
Ruby, Sapphire, Gold
Vintage 1950s American Post-War Brooches
Diamond, Jade, Ruby, White Diamond, Gold, 14k Gold, Yellow Gold
20th Century American More Necklaces
Pearl
American Clip-on Earrings
Vintage 1960s American Clip-on Earrings
Ruby, 14k Gold
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Early 20th Century French Art Deco Brooches
Diamond, Platinum
Vintage 1940s Italian More Necklaces
Diamond, Ruby, Sapphire, 18k Gold
21st Century and Contemporary American Contemporary Multi-Strand Necklaces
White Diamond, Platinum
Late 20th Century American Artist Brooches
Diamond, Platinum
2010s American Cocktail Rings
Pink Diamond, Platinum
2010s American Modern Engagement Rings
Diamond, White Diamond, Platinum
Vintage 1920s French Art Deco Cluster Rings
Diamond, Emerald, Platinum
20th Century French Modern Link Bracelets
Diamond, Sapphire, Gold, 18k Gold, Yellow Gold, Platinum
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Engagement Rings
Diamond, Blue Diamond, Pink Diamond, 18k Gold, Rose Gold
Antique Early 1900s Edwardian Brooches
Diamond, Ruby, Gold
Vintage 1920s French Art Deco Brooches
Diamond, Emerald, 18k Gold, Platinum
21st Century and Contemporary Choker Necklaces
Diamond
2010s American Modern Engagement Rings
Diamond, Platinum
Mid-20th Century French Art Nouveau Drop Necklaces
Ruby, Diamond, Platinum
21st Century and Contemporary Choker Necklaces
Diamond
Vintage 1960s Italian Beaded Necklaces
Diamond, Emerald, Yellow Gold
Recent Sales
21st Century and Contemporary American More Earrings
Crystal, Diamond, Pearl, Ruby, Gold
20th Century American More Earrings
Crystal, Ruby, Gold
20th Century American More Earrings
Diamond, Emerald, Ruby, Sapphire, Gold
American Brooches
Diamond
Vintage 1960s American Brooches
Vintage 1960s American Cocktail Rings
Emerald, Ruby, Sapphire, Cultured Pearl, Diamond, White Gold, 14k Gold
Vintage 1960s American Clip-on Earrings
Ruby, 14k Gold
Vintage 1980s Fashion Rings
Ruby, Diamond, 18k Gold, Yellow Gold
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Clip-on Earrings
Ruby, 18k Gold
Vintage 1980s American Retro Clip-on Earrings
Late 20th Century American Clip-on Earrings
Ruby, 14k Gold
2010s American More Necklaces
Natural Pearl, Ruby, Jade, 18k Gold
2010s American Modern Clip-on Earrings
Ruby, 18k Gold, Yellow Gold
2010s American Clip-on Earrings
Jade, Ruby, 18k Gold
1990s Clip-on Earrings
Ruby, 18k Gold
1990s American Clip-on Earrings
Ruby, Moonstone, 18k Gold
American Clip-on Earrings
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Clip-on Earrings
Ruby, White Diamond, 18k Gold
2010s American Clip-on Earrings
Jade, Natural Pearl, Ruby, 18k Gold
2010s American Drop Earrings
Jade, Pearl, Ruby, 18k Gold, Yellow Gold
Vintage 1940s Cocktail Rings
Ruby, Sapphire, 14k Gold
21st Century and Contemporary American Clip-on Earrings
Sapphire, Diamond, Emerald, Ruby, 18k Gold
21st Century and Contemporary American Clip-on Earrings
Ruby, 18k Gold, Yellow Gold
Vintage 1960s American Clip-on Earrings
20th Century American Modern Brooches
Diamond, Moonstone, Ruby, Sapphire, 18k Gold, White Gold
2010s American Hoop Earrings
Emerald, Ruby, Blue Sapphire, 18k Gold, Yellow Gold
Early 2000s Modern Link Bracelets
Jade, Ruby, 18k Gold, Yellow Gold
Vintage 1950s American Retro Brooches
Turquoise, 14k Gold
Vintage 1950s American Retro Cluster Rings
Diamond, Emerald, Ruby, Sapphire, 14k Gold
Vintage 1950s American Cocktail Rings
Diamond, Emerald, Ruby, Sapphire, 14k Gold
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Beaded Necklaces
Jade, Pearl, Ruby, Yellow Gold, 18k Gold
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Beaded Necklaces
Jade, Pearl, Ruby, 18k Gold, Yellow Gold
Vintage 1960s American Brooches
Chalcedony, Ruby, 14k Gold
21st Century and Contemporary Link Bracelets
Diamond, Multi-gemstone, Chalcedony, Citrine, Emerald, Peridot, Quartz, ...
Mid-20th Century American Retro Brooches
Coral, 18k Gold
Vintage 1960s American Brooches
Diamond, Cultured Pearl, Ruby, 18k Gold
21st Century and Contemporary American Clip-on Earrings
Pearl, Diamond, Emerald, Cultured Pearl, Ruby, Blue Sapphire, Gold, 18k ...
20th Century American Brooches
Diamond, Emerald, Lapis Lazuli, Ruby, 18k Gold, White Gold, Yellow Gold
American Clip-on Earrings
2010s American Cuff Bracelets
Blue Sapphire, Diamond, Emerald, Ruby, Spinel, 18k Gold, White Gold
Late 20th Century North American Modernist Clip-on Earrings
Ruby, 18k Gold
Late 20th Century Modern Bracelets
Late 20th Century Modern Bracelets
Antique 1880s American Victorian Beaded Necklaces
Diamond, Ruby, 14k Gold, Yellow Gold
Vintage 1980s American Clip-on Earrings
Vintage 1980s American Beaded Bracelets
Diamond, Cultured Pearl, Ruby, 18k Gold, Yellow Gold
1990s Stud Earrings
Diamond, Ruby, 18k Gold, Yellow Gold
Vintage 1970s American Cuff Bracelets
Citrine, Jade, Ruby, 18k Gold
Vintage 1970s American Clip-on Earrings
Emerald, Natural Pearl, Rock Crystal, Ruby, 14k Gold
Late 20th Century Cufflinks
Aquamarine, Ruby, 18k Gold
Vintage 1980s American Retro Clip-on Earrings
Vintage 1980s American Clip-on Earrings
Ruby, 18k Gold
Vintage 1970s Clip-on Earrings
Ruby, Sapphire, 14k Gold
Early 2000s American Clip-on Earrings
Ruby, 18k Gold
Vintage 1960s American Clip-on Earrings
Diamond, Cultured Pearl, Ruby, 18k Gold
Late 20th Century Lever-Back Earrings
Ruby, Gold, 18k Gold, Yellow Gold
Vintage 1960s American Multi-Strand Necklaces
Cultured Pearl, Emerald, Jade, Ruby, Sapphire, Aquamarine, 18k Gold
Vintage 1940s Brooches
Diamond, Ruby, Gold
Vintage 1970s American Brooches
Diamond, Quartz, Ruby, 18k Gold
Vintage 1940s American Clip-on Earrings
Ruby, 14k Gold, Yellow Gold
Seaman Schepps Ruby For Sale on 1stDibs
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Seaman Schepps for sale on 1stDibs
A scrappy, self-made artist who transformed turbo shells into decadent earrings and crystal chessmen into bold bracelets, Seaman Schepps (1881–1972) tirelessly worked his way up from the tenements of New York’s Lower East Side to become “America’s Court Jeweler.”
Born to immigrant parents who named him for the Seamen’s Bank for Savings that his mother could see from the hospital — or so the legend goes — Schepps dropped out of school at the age of 14 and never had any formal jewelry training. He later moved to California, where he opened his first jewelry shop in 1904. In 1921, he returned to New York to build on the success he’d begun to enjoy as a jeweler on the West Coast, but it wasn’t long before his Manhattan house, which counted Broadway stars and theater patrons among its clientele, was hit hard by the stock market crash of 1929. Schepps used this disruption to rethink his approach to jewelry, debuting a new store in 1934 on Madison Avenue, where he would make his mark in playful custom adornments.
While many high-end jewelers of his era focused on the purest and most valuable gemstones, Schepps chose his materials for their color and shape, elevating flawed stones others disregarded in collage-like formations involving unconventional materials such as fine wood, coral, seashells and flea-market finds. Passersby of his New York City shop could find a frog-shaped brooch carved from rosewood, a vintage snuff bottle broken into links for a bracelet and loose-drilled pearls plugged with diamonds. Schepps’s whimsical pieces found fans in fashion icons who appreciated his unique statements, including Doris Duke, Andy Warhol and the Duchess of Windsor.
Following Schepps’s death in 1972, his daughter, jewelry designer Patricia S. Vaill, ran the jewelry house for two decades before it was taken over by Jay Bauer and Anthony Hopenhajm of Trianon jewelry. Following the closure of the company’s Park Avenue store in November 2020, sales for Seaman Schepps is now based in its boutique location out of Palm Beach, Florida, where the legendary brand carries forth its founder’s spirited designs.
On 1stDibs, find a distinctive collection of vintage Seaman Schepps jewelry, including brooches, bracelets and other accessories.