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Seaman Schepps New York Brooch 18kt Gold with 82.45 Ctw Diamonds and Gemstones

Name: Seaman Schepps New York Brooch 18kt Gold with 82.45 Ctw Diamonds and Gemstones
Brand: Seaman Schepps
Price: 9560 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

Jeweled brooch-pendant designed by Seaman Schepps. An elegant and sophisticate organic pendant-brooch created in New York city by the American jewelers Seaman Schepps, back in the 1998. This large jewelry piece was carefully crafted with impeccable details in solid yellow gold of 18 karats, with high polished finish. Suited at the reverse, with a hinged pin and a trombone lock. Can be also used as a pendant. Embellished with 19 natural vivid orange citrines of different cuts, sizes and colors variations, with a combined weight of 82 carats. All gemstones are mount in movable bezels and are gradated in size. They are 6 organic leaves carvings, 5 checkerboards cut rondels beads and 7 round brilliant cuts. All this, is accented, with four-prong settings that are holding 5 round brilliant cut diamonds, 0.45 carats, E/F color, VS-1 clarity and with 7 graduated cultured white pearls (3 to 5 mm). The total weight of this piece is 47.1 grams and the measures are 88 mm by 42 mm (3.45 x 1.65 inches). Signed and stamped, with the company brand maker's mark, the serial numbers and the assay hallmarks, "6294 SEAMAN SCHEPPS .750". Seaman Schepps was an American jeweler famous for his retro style, 1950's jewelry design. The company was established in the 1905 as an antique and retailer store. in the 1931 was founded officially as a jewelry designer in New York and the workshop store was located at 516 in Madison Avenue. in the 1933 the business was so successful that they moved to a larger showroom at the 399 in the same avenue. The firm was sold in the 1992. Literature: This piece are published at the Seaman Schepps 1998 catalog Pp-5 (see picture). Collateral: It is accompanied by the designer's jewelry box. Condition: The overall condition of this brooch is excellent. Beside the little normal wear, there is no damage to the gold. All the gemstones, are secured in the settings. This piece has been carefully inspected to guarantee the condition and authenticity. INVENTORY REF: P0000EIME/1.132

Creator:

Seaman Schepps

Metal:

Gold,18k Gold,Yellow Gold

Stone:

Citrine,Diamond,Cultured Pearl

Stone Cut:

Mixed Cut

Weight:

47.1 g

Dimensions:

Width: 1.65 in (41.91 mm)Length: 3.45 in (87.63 mm)

Style:

Contemporary

Place of Origin:

United States

Period:

1990-1999

Date of Manufacture:

1998

Condition:

Wear consistent with age and use. The overall condition of this brooch is excellent. Beside the little normal wear, there is no damage to the gold. All the gemstones, are secured in the settings. This piece has been carefully inspected to guarantee the condition and authenticity.

Seller Location:

Miami, FL

Reference Number:

Seller: P0000EIME/1.1321stDibs: LU2690216757782

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Seaman Schepps

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.

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