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Vintage Sterling Open Back Crystal Necklace Circa 1920s
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Sterling Open Back Crystal Necklace Circa 1920s. This has graduated sizes going all the way around the neck. Nothing looks like a genuine open-back crystal necklace. The shi...
Category
Vintage 1920s American Modern Choker Necklaces
Materials
Sterling Silver
Vintage French Diamante Faux Double Pearl Long Necklace Circa 1960s
Located in New York, NY
Vintage French Diamante Faux Double Pearl Long Necklace. Blue cabochons surrounded by crystals make up the two clasps, which are then joined by two long rows of faux double-knotted ...
Category
Vintage 1960s French Modern Choker Necklaces
Materials
Mixed Metal
Vintage Gold Tone Solid Heart on Link Toggle Chain Necklace Circa 1980s
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Gold Tone Solid Heart on Link Toggle Chain Necklace. The 35" L Chain with the heart is 37.5" long. The heart measures 1.25" wide. It can ...
Category
Vintage 1980s American Modern Link Necklaces
Materials
Mixed Metal
Vintage Open Back Crystal Long Necklace with Dangling Piece Circa 1920s
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Open-Back Crystal Long Necklace with Dangling Piece Circa 1920s. One of the most gorgeous pieces I have. The crystals are set on an ant...
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Vintage 1920s American Modern Link Necklaces
Materials
Mixed Metal
Vintage Biche De Berre Rigid Gold Tone Choker Circa 1980s
By Biche de Bere Paris
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Biche De Berre Rigid Gold Tone Choker. It can be worn alone or with something dangling. A great layering piece to have. The inside of the choker measures 11 inches. The cha...
Category
Vintage 1980s French Modern Choker Necklaces
Materials
Mixed Metal
Vintage Open Back Crystal Necklace with Dangling Piece Circa 1920s
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Open-Back Crystal Necklace with Dangling Piece. The crystals are set in a silver tone base with double links holding them in place. Thes...
Category
Vintage 1920s American Modern Link Necklaces
Materials
Mixed Metal
Vintage Givenchy Heavy Gold Tone Link Necklace Circa 1980s
By Givenchy
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Givenchy Heavy Gold Tone Link Necklace. A heavy and substantial necklace. A bracelet is available on-site to match. This represents the 1980s at their best. A classic necklace that will always be in style. Layer this with the newer, thinner stackable necklaces...
Category
Vintage 1980s French Modern Link Necklaces
Materials
Mixed Metal
Vintage Boucher Pave and Baguette Layered Necklace Circa 1960s
By Marcel Boucher
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Boucher Pave and Baguette Layered Necklace Circa 1960s. This is the most beautiful necklace I have ever had in the rhinestone/crystal family. I had the sister necklace, but...
Category
Vintage 1960s American Modern Choker Necklaces
Materials
Mixed Metal
Vintage Ciner for Joan Rivers Faux Pearl Diamante 4 Strand Necklace Circa 1990s
By Ciner
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Ciner for Joan Rivers Faux Pearl with Diamante 4 Strand Necklace. Features two detailed diamante pieces on either side, in gold tone, that connect the three strands of faux p...
Category
1990s American Modern Multi-Strand Necklaces
Materials
Mixed Metal
Vintage Prevost Gold 4 Strand Necklace with Dangling Maltese Cross Circa 1980s
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Prevost Gold Tone 4 Strand Choker Necklace with Dangling Maltese Cross. This necklace is composed of four heavy-link chains, featuring a ...
Category
Vintage 1980s American Modern Link Necklaces
Materials
Mixed Metal
Vintage Givenchy Gold Heavy Link Chain with Dangling Drop Necklace Circa 1980s
By Givenchy
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Givenchy Gold Tone Heavy Link Chain with Dangling Blue Drop Necklace. A classic look from Givenchy. A heavy, square, blue, clear faceted piece hangs from large oval links. A...
Category
Vintage 1980s French Modern Link Necklaces
Materials
Mixed Metal
Vintage Alexis Kirk Articulated Gold Tone Choker Necklace Circa 1980s
By Alexis Kirk
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Alexis Kirk Articulated Gold Tone Choker Necklace. Slopes down in the front. It would look good on a t-shirt, a turtle neck, or a white blo...
Category
Vintage 1980s American Modern Choker Necklaces
Materials
Mixed Metal
Vintage Bogoff Diamante Drop Necklace Circa 1960s
By Henry Bogoff
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Bogoff Diamante Drop Necklace Circa 1960s. Has a drop necklace and is on links of stones with designs. There are two 6-stone designs, separated...
Category
Vintage 1960s American Modern Link Necklaces
Materials
Mixed Metal
Vintage Christian Dior Gold Disc Necklace with Crystals Circa 1980s
By Christian Dior
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Christian Dior Gold Disc Necklace with Crystals Circa 1980s. Classic Dior necklace featuring a round disc with texture and inlaid crystals. ...
Category
Vintage 1980s French Modern Link Necklaces
Materials
Mixed Metal
Vintage Mesh Wrap Tie Silver Tone Necklace Lariat Circa 1980s
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Mesh Wrap Tie Silver Tone Necklace Lariat Circa 1980s. This can be worn in so many ways. I have shown several in the photos. If you're looking for an Elsa Peretti piece th...
Category
Vintage 1980s American Modern Link Necklaces
Materials
Mixed Metal
Vintage Yves Saint Laurent YSL 3 Strand Pearl and Faux Turquoise Circa 1980s
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Yves Saint Laurent YSL 3 Strand Pearl and Faux Turquoise. It is not signed as its couture, which was never signed but attributed to Yves Saint Laurent. The couture pieces w...
Category
Vintage 1980s French Artist Link Necklaces
Materials
Mixed Metal
Vintage French Red Beaded With Rondelles Gold and Black Necklace Circa 1960s
Located in New York, NY
Vintage French Red Beaded With Rondelles Gold and Black Necklace Circa 1960s. Red Cone beads and Rondelles with Gold and Black Spacers Necklace. This 1960s double strand is a true be...
Category
Vintage 1960s French Modern Link Necklaces
Vintage Maison Gripoix White, Crystal, Faux Turquoise Gold Necklace Circa 1990s
By Maison Gripoix
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Maison Gripoix White, Crystal and Faux Turquoise on Gold Chain Necklace. 3 Different Emblems On a Gold Chain with a Dangling White Piece in the Middle. 22"-24" L. Dangling Middle is 3" L. Each Piece is 2" by 2"
Guy de Maupassant wrote a famous story about a necklace. The story is about a young, pretty, intelligent, well-educated but poorly endowed bride who has to marry a petty official; thus, suffering from the limitations of living a life with a husband that lacked any exquisite qualities. One day, to entertain his dejected spouse, her husband receives an invitation to a ball and gives his wife the 400 francs he had saved for a hunting rifle so that she can order an appropriate dress.
However, when the dress is ready, it becomes clear that it is lacking jewelry, and it would be impossible to attend the ball while looking so poor. The protagonist approaches her wealthy childhood friend, with whom she was raised at the monastery, and borrows a diamond necklace from her. The ball is a great success, and she is the centre of attention. However, when the woman returns home, she discovers that she has lost the necklace. To conceal her faux pas from her friend, she buys a new necklace identical to the one she lost. To pay it off, the woman gets into a huge debt, which, over the years, gradually drags her down the social ladder from the bourgeoisie to poverty. Ten years later, having lost her good looks, the woman encounters her friend on the Champs Elysees, who still looks young, beautiful, and rich. The protagonist reveals to her friend the entire story about the necklace, but her friend replies in amazement that the diamonds were fake and would “cost 500 francs at most.”
Maison Gripoix starts out with a dramatic story. In 1869 (or a year earlier, according to other sources), Paris master glassmaker Augustina Gripoix began creating replicas of pearls and crystals, casting glass into various shapes and colors and setting them in the most sophisticated settings. She used the pâte de verre (glass paste) technique, whereby a traditional ceramic or gypsum form was filled with a multi-colour piece of glass and special gluing substances and then baked in a furnace, resulting in objects featuring fantastical hues. Only Augustina made her crystals by pouring the melted glass paste into the press moulds, skipping the furnace step, allowing her to achieve the purity of colour, transparency, and shine. She found a simple method to make beautiful jewelry and thus Marquises, Duchesses and Princesses qued up ... so Madame Gripoix would make them replicas of their own jewelry in case of robbery or loss, or some unusual jewelry pieces for their new wraps, neckpieces, or boas. The so-called ‘costume jewelry’ emerged to a large extent thanks to the work of Maison Gripoix.
Augustina Gripoix earned her fame in the 1890s when she began creating necklaces for Sarah Bernhardt to wear on stage and later designed costume jewelry for the first high-fashion house of Charles Frederick Worth. Later, Paul Poiret, the leading couturier of 1910, contacted her, and she created sophisticated Oriental-style jewelry to match his famous Oriental costumes, based on the aesthetic of Diaghilev’s initial Russian seasons.
The value of costume jewelry was now being recognized in its own right and not just for imitation purposes. The taste of emancipated young girls, who were gaining more and more freedom and opportunities, was best met with bijouterie. So in the 1920s, when Augustina’s daughter Susan became the head of the House, Gripoix prospects became even more exciting. Girls with short-cropped hair in short dresses zoomed by in open-top cars wearing bijou rather than diamonds. Everyone ordered bijouterie from Madam Gripoix during this period, from Jeanne Lanvin to Jean Piguet...
Category
1990s French Modern Link Necklaces
Materials
Mixed Metal
Vintage Yves Saint Laurent YSL Dangling Gold Sun on Choker Circa 1980s
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in New York, NY
Vintage YSL Dangling Gold Sun on Choker. Opening is 2" Sun is 2" x 2". This is a truly special piece, perfectly capturing the essence of YSL. ...
Category
Vintage 1980s French Artist Link Necklaces
Materials
Mixed Metal
Vintage Anne Klein Stacked Gold Fan Like Toggle Necklace Circa 1980s
By Anne Klein
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Anne Klein Stacked Gold Tone Fan-Like Toggle Necklace. These are like secrets from the 1980s. They are well-made necklaces crafted during the period, which are genuinely ch...
Category
Vintage 1980s American Modern Link Necklaces
Materials
Mixed Metal
Vintage Chanel Gold Disc Chanel and Coco on Long Necklace Circa 1980s
By Chanel
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Chanel Gold Disc Chanel and Coco on Long Necklace. A grand necklace from the 1980s, featuring dangling discs with an imprint of "CoCo" on one side and "Chanel" on the other, ...
Category
Vintage 1980s French Artist Link Necklaces
Materials
Mixed Metal
Vintage Gripoix Paris Flower Necklace Circa 1980s
By Maison Gripoix
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Gripoix Red MDV Paris Flower Necklace. This necklace is so spectacular. The flower is like the Chanel Camelia. This just oozes class. Something about this is just so specia...
Category
Vintage 1980s French Modern Link Necklaces
Vintage Yves Saint Laurent YSL Couture Dangling Choker Circa 1980s
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Yves Saint Laurent YSL Gold Tone Red Discs Dangling Choker. Created for the defile. 12-16.5" around the Neck. The Drop Pieces are approximat...
Category
Vintage 1980s French Artist Choker Necklaces
Materials
Mixed Metal
Vintage Ciner Gold Link Choker Necklace Circa 1980s
By Ciner
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Ciner Gold Link Choker Necklace. Long Links with a Pattern Swirled through the Middle of the Link. This is a classic necklace that everyone...
Category
Vintage 1980s American Modern Link Necklaces
Materials
Mixed Metal
Vintage Isabel Canovos Face Chain Choker Necklace Circa 1980s
By Isabel Canovas
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Isabel Canovos Face Chain Choker Necklace Circa 1980s. An iconic Isabel Canovas collectors' piece. This is such a magnificent necklace. The face at its widest is 2 inches.
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Vintage 1980s French Modern Link Necklaces
Materials
Mixed Metal
Vintage Billy Boy Gold Tone Evil Eye Long Necklace Sautoir Circa 1990s
By Billy Boy
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Billy Boy Gold Tone Evil Eye Long Necklace Sautoir. Double Strands of Gold Chain and Double Pieces of Evil Eye that are Enameled with Red, Green, and White. They are then ...
Category
1990s French Modern Link Necklaces
Materials
Mixed Metal
Vintage Hattie Carnegie Diamante and Sapphire Blue Wide Choker Circa 1960s
By Hattie Carnegie
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Hattie Carnegie Diamante and Sapphire Blue Cabochon Wide Collar Necklace Circa 1960s. Gorgeous Piece from the 1960s. This is truly such...
Category
Vintage 1960s American Modern Choker Necklaces
Materials
Mixed Metal
Vintage Carlo Zini Diamante and Blue Cabochon Dangling Necklace Circa 2000s
By Carlo Zini
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Carlo Zini Diamante and Blue Cabochon Dangling Necklace Sautoir Circa 2000s. This is one of those pieces for when you go out or want to make a statement. The photograph doesn...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Modern Link Necklaces
Materials
Mixed Metal
Vintage ArtDeco89 Dangling Enamel and Diamante Pendant Circa 1980s
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Art Deco Dangling Enamel and Diamante Pendant. Based on a Cartier Design from the 1920s. Has green and yellow enamel with dangling green crystals and diamante pieces. This ...
Category
Vintage 1980s American Modern Pendant Necklaces
Materials
Mixed Metal
Vintage Christian Lacroix Vintage Gold Toned Choker Circa 1990s
By Christian Lacroix
Located in New York, NY
CHRISTIAN LACROIX's rare, massive, ethnic tribal-inspired four-strand gold-toned choker necklace features links and rings. Both ends are made of deep red studded enamel embellished with orange resin cabochons. This is one of the unique and unusual pieces that Lacroix created.
This is a spectacular piece. Truly special in the world of jewelry.
Approximately 12" -15" L
.Approximately 2.75" W
Marked CHRISTIAN LACROIX CL Made in France.
About the Designer
Christian Lacroix
At a time when sharp, padded shoulders and crisp lines were trending, Christian Lacroix created venturesome clothing that was bubbly, flirtatious, and exuberant.
The iconic French fashion designer, whose work includes handbags and purses, evening dresses, jackets, and lots more, has always favored theater over fashion. He has long incorporated corsets and bustles into his work, drawing on diverse cultures and citing epic historical dramas as sources of inspiration. Today, he is creating opera costumes...
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1990s French Modern Choker Necklaces
Materials
Mixed Metal
Vintage Maison Goossens Yves Saint Laurent YSL Rock Crystal Necklace Circa 1980s
By Maison Goossens for Yves Saint Laurent
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Maison Goossens Yves Saint Laurent YSL Rock Crystal Collar Heavy Necklace. Couture at its best. Long and Short Pieces of Gold Tone Spikes. B...
Category
Vintage 1980s French Artist Link Necklaces
Materials
Mixed Metal
Vintage Yves Saint Laurent YSL Black Choker with Dangling Poms Poms Circa 1960s
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Beaded Black Choker with Dangling Poms Poms and Beads. Attributed to Yves Saint Laurent, YSL, but not signed as it is part of the couture, which ...
Category
Vintage 1980s French Artist Choker Necklaces
Materials
Mixed Metal
Vintage Christian Lacroix Gold Cross with Cabochon Necklace Circa 1990s
By Christian Lacroix Paris
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Christian Lacroix Paris Gold Cross with Cabochons Necklace. Has a Grasshopper in the Middle. I have attached a black cord to this, but you can use any chain you have. The co...
Category
1990s French Modern Pendant Necklaces
Materials
Mixed Metal
Collectible Chanel Gold Choker Necklace Circa 2008
By Chanel
Located in New York, NY
Collectible Chanel Gold Choker Necklace with Pieces of Wheat making up the Necklace. It is Made Purposely Uneven, with one side being Longer than the other. It is 14-16" L and 1.5...
Category
Early 2000s French Artist Link Necklaces
Materials
Mixed Metal
Vintage Yves Saint Laurent YSL 3 Strand Pearl and Blue Bead Necklace Circa 1990s
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Yves Saint Laurent YSL 3 Strand Pearl and Blue Bead Necklace Circa 1990s. Quite Different. The Three Strands have three beads mixed in ...
Category
1990s French Artist Beaded Necklaces
Materials
Mixed Metal
Collectible Augustine Gripooix Silver Necklace with Green Flower Circa 2000s
Located in New York, NY
Collectible Augustine Silver Tone Necklace with Green Gripoix Flower and Pieces. Long Sautoir with a Flower at the End and a Dangling Green Gripoix Piece.
Gripoix is always classic a...
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2010s French Modern Link Necklaces
Materials
Mixed Metal
Vintage Deanna Hamro Dusty Rose Pearl Choker Circa 1980s
By Deanna Hamro
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Deanna Hamro Dusty Rose Pearl Choker. Four rows of Dusty Rose Pearls on Gold Bars with Pearls with Long Chains and Dangling Pearls. Always a Chic Ch...
Category
Vintage 1980s American Modern Choker Necklaces
Materials
Mixed Metal
Vintage Celine Dangling Globe and Arc De Triomphe Necklace Circa 1980s
By Celine
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Celine Dangling Globe and Arc De Triomphe Pieces. Such a Classic Piece. I just love this piece, and I think it's incredibly classy. Something about it. It is weighty and just...
Category
Vintage 1980s French Modern Link Necklaces
Materials
Mixed Metal
Vintage Anne Klein Toggle Necklace with Blue Disc Circa 1980s
By Anne Klein
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Anne Klein Toggle Necklace with Blue Disc. Can be worn doubled around the neck as shown. This is a round, heavy, matte gold link toggle chain fe...
Category
Vintage 1980s American Modern Link Necklaces
Materials
Mixed Metal