Two awesome pieces of jewelry

[randazzo1]

Visited my mom today down in South Jersey and we hit the thrifts together. Came away w a decent amount of junk silver and these two beauties. The bracelet is gold and silver w pearls, rubies, a diamond and an intaglio style reverse watermelon tourmaline. Completely unmarked. Definitely a treasure. Mostly Victorian but some elements may be older. Posted in “what is it” for insight because the center stone is unnecessarily drilled - see that posting if ur interested. It was $25 and tagged as vintage costume.

Second piece is an 18k white gold and star sapphire pendant. Unmarked. I figured it was a Lindy. But alas, no L. It reads as sapphire on the gem tester too, so off the jeweler w that one. It was $10 and tagged as sterling.

Thanks for looking and happy hunting!

 

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[Rookster]

That's nice. Congrats

 

[MRBeyer]

Quite a treasure

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Nice finds, congratulations!

 

[randazzo1]

Hey tamrock what you think? On the age especially. On the one hand it seems aesthetic, and the seed pearls is classic late victorian or edwardian, but on the other hand you have that crazy center stone with the button drillings. You seen this before?

 

[randazzo1]

And also —- I am rarely in this area Anymore - we usually uber my mom up to me, so I’m happy to share the location w any south jersey folks by PM. I don’t want the shop to know obviously.

 

[MRBeyer]

Possibly missing an artistic addition mounted on a post in that hole Imo

 

[randazzo1]

Possibly missing an artistic addition mounted on a post in that hole Imo

Definitely possible, but I don’t think so. The whole piece is frankenstein. The part we’re looking at has cut shanks on either end - so definitely cut and turned into a bracelet. So i’m hoping the stome was important to somebody and carried through. Itsn optimist lol

 

[tamrock]

Hey tamrock what you think? On the age especially. On the one hand it seems aesthetic, and the seed pearls is classic late victorian or edwardian, but on the other hand you have that crazy center stone with the button drillings. You seen this before?

I'm thinking 1870s? Maybe European? It's pretty unique and a nice find the boot. Is that mesh band gold or rolled gold? I'm not sure why the hole is in the tourmaline, but it leads me to believe it was once in something else, so maybe that did come from an older piece. A lot of older jewelry does get altered overtime.

 

[randazzo1]

I'm thinking 1870s? Maybe European? It's pretty unique and a nice find the boot. Is that mesh band gold or rolled gold? I'm not sure why the hole is in the tourmaline, but it leads me to believe it was once in something else, so maybe that did come from an older piece. A lot of older jewelry does get altered overtime.

Pretty much where I am on it. The band is vermeil. The “top bezel” and the prongs are silver. The florets w pearls and rubies are gold - a little under 14k.

 

[randazzo1]

The sapphire is unfortunately synthetic. Gemologist said for the future two remember two things: 1) natural star sapphires are exceptionally rare (most for sale are fake) and; 2) anytime you see a really strong star with straight lines like this one, assume it’s synthetic.

 

[tamrock]

Yeah those Lindy sapphires were the hot commodity at one time and made their creator a lot of money. Most of the early ones were set in gold. I still remember what big deal they were and getting one as a gift was at the top of the list for many women in the early 1970s. I had a ring that had the L on the back side once, but do remember selling it for scrap value when gold was at a record high. You got that right, as to the rarity of a real star sapphire. That would be quite the find running across one of those in the hunt for estate jewelry.

 

[Beachkid23]

Id guess the hole is from a piece of gold accent missing. Something like a service award would be gold on gold filled. I find old mens rings that have an onyx stone then a small gold letter for an initial and when I pull them off to scrap them there is that hole in the stone. If that makes since.

 

[Beachkid23]

Like this

 

[randazzo1]

Id guess the hole is from a piece of gold accent missing. Something like a service award would be gold on gold filled. I find old mens rings that have an onyx stone then a small gold letter for an initial and when I pull them off to scrap them there is that hole in the stone. If that makes since.

Interesting. And that’s what MRBeyer thought too. I guess I have to consider as an option because it makes sense. But then that added piece would cover the intaglio - which would seem weird to me. Maybe it was a fancy button.

 

[DFW_THer]

mega nice!!

 

[Silverchick]

I am just going crazy with your find. The star sapphire pendant is so beautiful. The bracelet is absolutely to die for. Congratulations on an amazing find.