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Barnebys HQ
Brahegatan 10
BOX 5038
114 37 Stockholm
All auctions / Jewelry & Gems / Glamorous Art Déco Brooch With 7.00 Ct Diamonds In Platinum, Circa 1930
Every antique piece of jewellery tells a story - and this often has more than just one chapter. For it is in the nature of jewellery as a precious, relatively small ornament that it is permanent and changes hands over the decades, sometimes even centuries, so that new owners may invent new chapters. In this case, the story of our piece of jewellery begins before its actual creation. Once upon a time, towards the end of the 19th century, an elegant lady received a piece of jewellery with precious diamonds in the latest cuts of the time: Slightly cushion-shaped, with an open calette, some of them in the delicate yellowish hue that didn't bother anyone much back then - after all, the gaslight was warm and golden anyway. One or two generations later, in the 1930s, this piece of jewellery had become unfashionable. A new owner - perhaps a daughter or granddaughter - had fallen in love with the straightforward, glamorous Art Deco style. It was fashionable at the time to cover the wrists with several wide diamond bracelets - an exorbitantly expensive fashion! When she had one made for herself, she contributed the largest diamonds for the middle section herself by taking them from the heirloom - so part of the cost was already covered. Incidentally, she was not alone in this: the jewelers were aware of the financial difficulty of adapting jewellery to the very latest fashion and offered to process diamonds sent in on their own initiative. Perhaps it was the same woman who had first danced through the roaring years of Art Deco with the bracelet on her wrist and then experienced the dark years of the war - perhaps a new owner, possibly her daughter, who looked at the bracelet in the years around 1950 and no longer felt it was in keeping with the times. Brooches, on the other hand... Yes, you could always use a bar brooch, whether worn on a costume or to pin up a fur collar. And so she had the middle section of the bracelet reworked into a long, luxurious bar brooch. The precious brooch is now available in this form. Under a magnifying glass, the joints can still be seen on the sides, thanks to which the elements once nestled softly against the wrist. The old diamonds from the heirloom blend discreetly into the overall picture, but anyone who knows about them will spot them immediately under a magnifying glass. Together, all the elements create a sparkling firework of light reflections, in the still timelessly luxurious taste of Art Déco - as if the brooch did not already combine the history of several generations. Which chapter will you write for this precious jewel?
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