DEROSA shell-shaped fur clip and earrings with black enamel, clear rhinestones and glass pearls in a gold plated sterling silver setting

DEROSA shell-shaped fur clip and earrings with black enamel, clear rhinestones and glass pearls in a gold plated sterling silver setting.  The clip is 2″ by 1-3/4″, each of the clip back earrings is 1″, and the entire set was made in the 1940s.  The clip is signed “R DeRosa sterling” and each of the … Continue reading “DEROSA shell-shaped fur clip and earrings with black enamel, clear rhinestones and glass pearls in a gold plated sterling silver setting”

VICTORIAN Whitby jet antique portrait brooch of a beautiful lady hand painted on porcelain.  She is wearing pink and blue and holding a white dove

VICTORIAN Whitby jet antique portrait brooch of a beautiful lady hand painted on porcelain.  She is wearing pink and blue and holding a white dove. A carved Greek key design decorates the edge of the setting that is 1-7/8″ by 1-1/2″.  On the back edge is a small scratch and that is the only issue … Continue reading “VICTORIAN Whitby jet antique portrait brooch of a beautiful lady hand painted on porcelain.  She is wearing pink and blue and holding a white dove”

VICTORIAN antique turquoise ring in a marquis shape with three turquoises surrounded by seed pearls

VICTORIAN antique turquoise ring in a marquis shape with three turquoises surrounded by seed pearls, a lovely design.  It is marked inside the band “9 14″, and it is a size 7+ and 1/2” along the finger and the total weight is .06 ounces. This type of turquoise is often called Persian turquoise, a generic … Continue reading “VICTORIAN antique turquoise ring in a marquis shape with three turquoises surrounded by seed pearls”

VICTORIAN antique 10k turquoise ring with tiny seed pearls set around a cushion-shaped turquoise, beautifully decorated side

VICTORIAN antique 10k yellow gold and turquoise ring with tiny seed pearls set around a cushion-shaped turquoise, beautifully decorated sides, size 6 and runs about 1/2″ along the finger, and it weighs .07 ozs. Persian turquoise is a beautiful blue color turquoise with no matrix at all and it was originally mined in Persia and … Continue reading “VICTORIAN antique 10k turquoise ring with tiny seed pearls set around a cushion-shaped turquoise, beautifully decorated side”

JULIANA D&E dazzling rivoli brooch and matching earrings with spectacular and very colorful green and rose colored rivoli

JULIANA D&E dazzling rivoli brooch and matching earrings with spectacular and very colorful green and rose colored rivoli and green and aurora borealis rhinestones all set in a gold tone metal, circa 1960.  The brooch is  2-1/2″ across and the clip back earrings are 1′. This is so lovely as the light catches it and … Continue reading “JULIANA D&E dazzling rivoli brooch and matching earrings with spectacular and very colorful green and rose colored rivoli”

VICTORIAN antique Whitby jet and Gypsy boy portrait brooch and earrings set

VICTORIAN antique Whitby jet and Gypsy boy portrait brooch and earrings set.  The painted porcelain miniatures are painted on porcelain in about 1870.  The plaques were often done in Austria and sent to Whitby, England, to be mounted in jet for jewelry. They show a young Tyrolean boy, also called the “gypsy boy” or “green … Continue reading “VICTORIAN antique Whitby jet and Gypsy boy portrait brooch and earrings set”