This frog bracelet is 7 1/2" long and 3/4" wide. Each frog link is marked "925" .This bracelet is in excellent condition.
This lovely pin has hand-applied calla lilies and leaves on a shaped flat panel, with lovely detail and nicely aged patina. The safety clasp is secure, and the pin is marked sterling on the back. It measures 1 3/4 inches long by nearly 1 inch at its widest part.
These earrings display a detailed, applied matador and bullfighting (nicer than pictures). Each is marked MEXICO C.F.R .925. They measures 3/4" x 3/4" at widest and longest.
This fine brooch is sterling silver. It is circa 1920, I believe. Each disk is encircled by sterling then black glass with clear rhinestones, encircling more beveled, black glass (perhaps crystal). It measures 1 3/4" x 3/4". The back is marked STER inside a fish with an L in its mouth for Fishel Nessler & Co., New York, NY. It is also marked PAT'D APRIL 14'05. It is in excellent condition.
This beautiful, sterling silver bracelet measures just under 7 1/2" long. Each of the 7 links are bezel-set with colorful abalone. They are shaped like upside down triangles, similar to the later, carved, Aztec mask jewelry. Each link is surmounted on the classic Taxco, Mexico square of 4 round beads / balls. The back is marked ANR 925; but, it was stamped in reverse, see pictures. This great piece is circa 1920's to 1940's.
Niello jewelry is made in Thailand and is easily identified by its unique ethnic motifs. The bracelet is hallmarked "Made in Thailand."
Siamese silver jewelry provides a contrast of colors between the black field and high-lighted silver design. That is what makes Siamese silver jewelry unique and distinctive look.
This great ring is a size 7. It measures 1 1/8" x 5/8" x 1/4". The ring's mod face is mounted on a wide, shank that tapers from 3/8" to 1/8". The design is great. This piece is marked 925 and weighs 14 grams. It is in excellent condition.
This wonderful, little pin / brooch depicts a map of The Province. It reads NOVA SCOTIA in sterling silver, including the Nova Scotia Peninsula, (Nova Scotia, Canada), its bays and other bodies of water. The back has a C-catch and is marked STERLING with a maker's mark I cannot distinguish. Circa 1950's, it is in excellent condition. FREE US STANDARD S/H
A nice quality pin with a graceful design, set with a dyed blue chalcedony. It is American, with a maker’s mark of conjoined JM for Joseph Masaniello, a New York jewelry artisan who worked during the 1940s and 1950s, and was a friend and contemporary of Carl Ruopoli. The pin is formed as stylized calla lilies and leaves, with vine-like curls. It’s a substantial piece and measures 2 3/4 inches long by 1 1/8 inches wide. Gross weight: 15.8 grams
This Sandor sterling floral spray pin with blue rhinestones is 3 1/4" x 2 1/2". It is hallmarked Sandor & Sterling.
This Mexican sterling tiger eye & serpent pendant has a large honey-colored tiger eye cabochon in the center. This cabocho is bezel mounted. It is hallmarked "POM" in a Taxco 925 Mexico circle with a separate Eagle 1 assay stamp. It is in super fine condition. This pendant is 1 1/2" square. The bail adds 1/2" to the overall length. The tiger eye cabochon is 7/8" in diameter.
This wonderful brooch exhibits a foliate, flowering branch motif. Its 3 circular, petals are slightly convex with striations to central buds. The curved stems are adorned with the same buds / balls (just a bit larger). This piece measures 1 5/8" x 1 1/4" x 1/4". The back is marked STERLING with the Carl - Art (CA with an arrow through it) maker's mark: Carl-Art, Inc. Providence, Rhode Island). This pin is circa 1950's or 60's. It has good heft and is in excellent condition.
This pendant displays a great example of Danish silver jewelry. The artist is Erik Dennung and the piece is manufactured by Buch and Deichmann. Its diameter is 2 1/2". The Scandinavian, abstract, brutalist design sits within a concave disk, of sorts, and is 1/2" in height. This piece has a cool Modernist design and weighs 70 grams - 2 1/2 ounces. It is in excellent condition. The back is marked with the Buch & Deichmann manufacturer's mark (B + D below a circle, flanked by 2 vertical lines)...
A vintage Art Deco 2-1/8 x 1/4" sterling silver bow shaped pin with high quality paste stones and crystal sapphires c1920. This pin is stamped 935, it has an unusual interlocking safety clasp, it weighs 3.1 grams, and it is in excellent original condition with no chips, cracks, dents, bends, corrosion, losses, damage or repairs. All items are thoroughly and conservatively graded and all condition issues are noted; all items are secondhand and may have slight signs of gentle use...
Not much is known about Industria Argentina, except that they produced exceptionally designed and crafted jewelry in the 1950s and '60s. This weighty silver ring is typical of their purist modernist aesthetic.
Size 6. Marked "Industria Argentina, Buenos Aires," and hallmarked 900 for silver fineness. Quite substantial at 11.9 grams. Excellent vintage condition.
An Art Deco sterling huge twin glass pearls ring with man made sapphires circa 1920s. This size 5-1/2 ring has huge creamy yellow 12 mm. glass pearls flanked with baguette cut man made or synthetic sapphires in a tooled sterling silver setting; it weighs 9.7 grams and the ring is offset at the shank so the pearls sit at an angle on the finger...
An Aesthetic sterling pin with green & pink gold circa 1870s. This vintage and opulent Aesthetic Movement sterling brooch has inlaid rose and green gold. This 1-3/8" x 1-1/8" pin has a notched and ball border with a hand-engraved floral interior featuring rose gold flowers and green gold leaves. It has the original c-clasp. It is unmarked (but tested) and is guaranteed to be silver...
Marci Zelmanoff - born 1942, Philadelphia.
Zelmanoff studied at the Rhode Island school of Design and received a MFA at Southern Illinois University.
Her primary influences were her teachers, Brent Kington and Olaf Skoogfors.
Oversized twisted silver wire brooch.
4" x 4"
Very good vintage condition.
Unsigned
This sterling silver, mod pin / brooch measures 1 5/8" x 1 1/2" x 1/2". It is truly extraordinary. Its textured surface looks like tin foil. It has a spherical, green chalcedony stone and is circa 1970's. It is in excellent condition and has a good heft.
American Modernist Sterling Mid Century Brooch w/Pearl
Bill Tendler
c.1950s
2 1/2" x 2 1/8"
Excellent condition
Stamped Tendler Sterling
This Cini sterling rose fur clip is hallmarked Guglielmo Cini by Cini sterling. It is 1 1/16" by 15/16th".
This Cini WAM bucket,mop and broom pin is hallmarked Guglielmo Cini, Cini sterling. The pin is 1 3/8" by 2".
Cini sterling Zodiac Taurus pin is 1 5/8 wide by 1 1/2" tall. It is Hallmarked STERLING BY CINI with a copyright symbol" in a rectangle box.
In 1979, Cini died.
Lovely large pendant with two cabochon moonstones and three cabochon carnelians flanking a raised depiction of two leaping fish swimming among abstract waves. The pendant is very large, measuring 2.5" in diameter. The hand made chain is approximately 24" long. Unmarked, but tests as sterling silver. Excellent vintage condition. With a "scissor" clasp. Weight: 48.3 grams.
A pretty Victorian sterling silver watch pin designed as a cluster of forget-me-nots. The repousse work is nicely detailed and very three dimensional. The back retains the original watch hanger, extended pinstem and c-clasp. The back is marked “Sterling”.
Origin: America, ca. 1900. Condition: excellent. Size: 1-3/8” X 1-1/4”. Weight: 6.0 grams.
An Art Nouveau Kerr sterling thistle brooch circa 1900. This sterling silver pin is by Kerr (1880s-1927) and it in the form of a large stylized thistle. This 2-1/8" x 1-1/2" brooch is of hollow construction with very high relief detail; it has the axe mark for Kerr and it is stamped STERLING and 1941 model number...
Plenty of detail on this lobster charm. Great for an ocean or nautical theme bracelet.
• Hallmarks - Sterling
• Condition - Excellent
• Measures - 7/8" long excluding the bail x 1/2" wide
For nearly eight decades the Cini signature has meant original handcrafted, heirloom jewelry. This pin is 1 1/2" square.
Hans Hansen modernist sterling brooch
2 3/4" long
Excellent vintage condition
Kerr Sterling guilloche lavender and white enamel pin is 2 7/8" long by 2 3/8" wide. It weighs 38.3 grams. Very heavy for a pin.
This beautiful bracelet measures 7 3/4". It consists of gold filled, circular links containing alternating, "caged" pearls and jade beads. The spring ring clasp is marked 1/20 12K - GF. The connector loop is marked 12K GF and has the marker's mark for Binder Bothers: BB in interlocking circles. This bracelet is circa 1950 and in excellent condition.
The Binder Brothers, Inc. started in 1922.
Sterling and azur-malachite bracelet by Enrique Ledesma measuring 6 3/4" around in the inside, 3/4" wide, 46 grams. Fine original condition. Signed as shown.( The Ledesma signature is worn but there.) Gorgeous stones fused to the silver in Ledesma's impeccable way.
This Sterling vermeil 3-D angel with green rhinestone necklace is 2 1/2" long x 1 7/8" at the widest point. The vermeil is very dirty and needs a good polishing.
It is hallmarked sterling. Most of this type of pin was done in the 1930s.
This Adolph Katz Coro sterling craft framed roosters brooch 42 is 1 5/8" by 1 1/2" . It is Des. 132,337 dated May 5, 1942.
Most of these designs were borrowed from George Jensen designs. It is gold vermeil over sterling.
There is plating wear on the high spots and the upper right hand corner.
This small Cini Sterling Zodiac Gemini pin is 1 7/8" wide x 1 1/2" tall. It is hallmarked "Cini sterling". It is in excellent condition.
A 2" across round hand engraved brooch in sterling silver, made by W.E. Richards, founded c1900 in Attleboro, Ma. This pin has a safety catch, it is stamped STERLING with the Richards maker's mark, and it weighs 13.2 grams. This item is in excellent original condition with no dents, bends, corrosion, losses, damage or repairs. All items are thoroughly and conservatively graded and all condition issues are noted; all items are secondhand and may have slight signs of gentle use...