Retro ruby diamond compact powder in sterling silver and vermeil. The case is in silver, decorated in the centre with a large vermeil band with a floral composition in a vase. The flowers are decorated with six ruby cabochons and eight rose-cut diamonds.
The powder case contains a bevelled mirror. It opens in two parts. French work in the taste of Boucheron Paris, circa 1945.
Boar hallmark, goldsmith’s mark Jacques Lucien DELETTREZ and Son (1920-1955), worked for René Boivin, traces of numbers.
Art Deco Tutti Frutti clip brooch in 18 karat gold (750) and platinum (900). Brooch taking the form of a crescent moon, decorated with flowers stylized by petals carved with sapphires, rubies and emeralds, the pistil represented by single cut diamonds. This brooch is composed of fourteen rubies, seventeen sapphires, nine emeralds and fourteen diamonds. Art Deco brooch, in the style of Cartier Paris Tutti Frutti jewelry, circa 1925
Eagle head hallmark, dog head hallmark and illegible goldsmith’s hallmark.
Dimensions : 25 x 32 mm
Estimated weight of sapphires : 2.55 carats
Estimated weight of rubies : 2.10 carats
Estimated weight of emeralds : 0.90 carats
Estimated weight of diamonds: 0.28 carat
Retro ruby brooch in yellow gold 18 karats (750). Brooch composed of a bar decorated with three half-cylinders with enamelled black triangles and decorated with lines of rubies. Four chains set with rubies hold three pendants also enamelled with black triangles. The whole jewel has 86 faceted oval rubies, totaling approximately 1.21 carat. The suspended parts are mobile. Brooch from the Retro period, 1940s-1950s.
Owl hallmark, affixed afterwards.
Dimensions: 50 mm x 55 mm x 8.4 mm
Total weight of the rubies: 1,21 carat
Condition: small traces of soldering, some enamel jumps; slight oxidation
Art Nouveau ruby ring in 18 karat yellow gold and platinum. Antique ring of the Art Nouveau period decorated with a pigeon’s blood ruby and diamonds. In its center there is a cushion-cut ruby. The ruby is framed by two old-cut diamonds. The whole is surrounded by twelve rose-cut diamonds in a platinum beaded setting. The shoulders of the ring are embellished with leaves setted with diamonds. Art nouveau ring, circa 1910, France, Paris.
Marked with an eagle’s head and the mark of the goldsmith Georges Lavoipierre (active in Paris between 1906 and 1942).
Finger size : 53 EU or 6.5 US (possible to change)
A certificate was issued by the Bellerophon laboratory on 16/01/2023:
Characteristics of the ruby : Description : transparent gemstone
Weight : 0,31 carat approximately
Dimensions : 4.09 x 3.65 x 2.59 mm
Size : oval
Identification: natural ruby Colour: vivid red
Fluorescence : Strong red
Comment : no indication of heating
Geographical origin : Burma (Mogok, Myanmar). This ruby can be called “pigeon blood” on the trade.
Estimated weight of the main diamonds: 0.19 and 0.14 carat
Estimated total diamond weight: 0.47 carat
Condition : scratches from use. Visible with a loupe : a thin chip on the border of one diamond.
Jade cocktail ring in blackened 18 karat gold. The ring is adorned with a rose flower made of rubies, blooming on a plate of jade (variety Maw Sit Sit) of an intense green. The plate is surrounded by a green gradation of tsavorite garnets. The ring is made entirely of blackened gold, with an openwork wave pattern, encrusted with black diamonds. Contemporary ring attributed to Wendy Yue, unsigned.
Hallmark 750 inside the ring and Edinburgh hallmark
The main stone is a Maw Sit Sit jade belonging to the jadeite category. The only existing deposit is in Burma, it is a stone composed of six different minerals very rich in chromium which gives it its intense green color. It is extremely rare to find it in jewelry.
Finger size: 54 EU or 6,75 US (no adjustment possible, except for reduction)
Dimensions of the plate : 2 x 1,5 cm
Note : the invoice is not delivered with the ring.
Condition : scratches from use
Tank ruby diamond scroll ring in yellow, pink and white gold 18 karat. Beautiful tank ring decorated in the centre of eight diamonds (brilliant cut and 8/8) in a white gold setting. The central diamonds are surrounded by two lines of four calibrated rubies. This geometric composition of rubies and diamonds is itself framed by two high-volume gold scrolls set with two lines of nine 88-cut diamonds. The jeweller and goldsmith plays with the volumes, the curved and geometric lines and the colours of the gold. Tank ring from 1945.
Octagonal hallmark “18” inside the ring
Finger size: 60 EU or 9 US (can be cut to size)
Dimensions of the ring head: 12 mm x 22 mm x 11 mm
Victorian agate cameo pendant in yellow gold 18 karats decorated with the profile of the goddess Flora, wearing flowers in her hair. The agate has three layers: gray for the background, white for the profile, brown for the flowers in the hair. The cameo is set with fleur-de-lis claws. Four old- European cut diamonds, as well as eight rubies (including a red stone) frame the cameo on a curved black enamel band. Jewel of the second half of the 19th century, French Napoleon III period or Victorian period.
Two owl hallmarks.
Height : 5 cm
Width : 3 cm
Condition : small accident on the upper flower button of the headdress, a very slight jump of enamel in the thickness on the left part. A ruby that has been replaced by a red stone (top right).
Note: this jewel has been transformed, the pendant was originally a brooch.
Weight of the stones: the 4 diamonds weigh about 0.32 carat in total; the 7 rubies weigh about 0.35 carat in total.