Portuguese Elaborate Lover's Knot Pin, Mid-20th Century, 19.2 Karat Gold

Vintage Set of Four Bridge Mechanical Pencils, .800 Silver, Mid 20th C. Each pencil has a suit engraved into the body with color matched enamel and colored top. These are screw-based...

Victorian Solid 10K Pin/Brooch Open Floral Inspired and Set With Seed Pearls and Amethysts. The beautifully detailed and carved gold setting contains 7 round,...

19thc Etruscan Revival 14k Gold Brooch Set With Carved Coral and Silver Colored Seed Pearls. The pillow shaped concave sided brooch has an open-work gold wire border, the top with granulation and gold wire with filigree engraving on the gold wire in a scrolling design. The border is set with four, floral carved coral blossoms and the four corners are mounted with silver colored natural seed pearls and the sides with tapered free moving bullet shaped gold drops. Centering the brooch is a carved coral, sleeping putti. The warm burnished glow in the deep yellow gold was the result of a technique called bloomed gold. A high carat gold wash (22-24 kt), in this case over 14 kt gold. Bloomed gold is alloy deletion leaving a pure gold surface on a piece. This is a different look than gold plating as it leaves a nice frosted effect. These techniques were developed by the Etruscan's. They were master metal smiths and mined various ores including iron, tin, copper, silver, and gold and became famous for their metalworking. Italians have harvested coral...

Cameo Brooch of a woman wearing a bonnet with a ribbon and a bouquet of white lilies, 1920's. Hanging from her neck is a .15 carat old mine-cut diamond set in a 14k white gold filigr...

While the craze for Lover’s Eye miniatures flourished from the 1790s through the 1820s—spurred on by the Prince of Wales’ famously illicit romance with Maria Fitzherbert—this brooc...

Brooch in 19.2 kt – 800‰ yellow gold and 833‰ silver, in the form of a crescent moon, set with old European-cut and rose-cut diamonds, totalling approximately 1 ct. Portuguese, beari...

Brooch with two horizontal bars in 19.2 kt – 800 ‰ in yellow gold. In the centre, it has a diagonal silver application set, with 7 old cut diamonds and 2 rose-cut diamonds. Each end ...

Extraordinarily cool 19th Century "Secret Lover" Brooch with locket fitting. Most likely French in manufacture, this exquisitely crafted brooch is the work of a master jeweler of the period. The detailing is extraordinary and can only be appreciated with the aid of a loupe. A photo or ivory miniature of a loved one (possibly secret) was inserted into the locket from the back. A mechanical fan...