Bracelets are the perfect fashion accessory. It can be discreet or visible, rigid or flexible, colored or neutral. It dresses up a sober outfit, it enhances a ring, a necklace. The bracelet is also the counterpart of your watch. Vintage bracelets or antique bracelets come in links, circles, chains, with or without stones. It is even possible to find antique bracelets with braided hair. The memory of the loved one was worn on the wrist. And even a simple gold band, engraved with the name or the date of the loved one, is beautiful, isn’t it?
Retro large bracelet in 18 karat gold. Retro bracelet composed of an articulated mesh with domed diamond motifs and decorated with small rays on the fronts. Large bracelet, circa 1950, Italy (Vicenza).
Vintage bangle bracelet in 18 karat (750) hollow gold. Oval-shaped bracelet forming a hollow gold bangle. It opens and closes with a clasp hidden in the bracelet. The bracelet is smooth and undecorated. Retro bracelet, circa 1950, France
Rhinoceros hallmark (french state hallmark for 18 karat gold) and hallmark of the goldsmith Trouillas (active from 1950).
Victorian Perpignan garnet bangle bracelet in 18k rose gold. Bracelet formed of two hollow rose gold rods and centered with seven round garnets. The garnets are “Perpignan-cut”, a rose-cut with a flat base. They have a beautiful raspberry-pink-red color, typical of Perpignan garnet jewelry. The garnets are mounted on paillon and set en clos. The setting is delicately decorated with triangular V-shaped figures on the edges, and the bezel bottoms are domed. The clasp is secured by an eight clasp. Antique rush bracelet, circa 1880, Southeastern France.
Horsehead hallmarks (1838-1919, french state hallmark for 18 karat gold)
Antique watch chain in 18 karat gold. The chain is composed of long, slender, rod-shaped links. Two clasps on each side of the chain: a thick round ring and a dog clip. The chain can be worn double around the wrist as a bracelet or choker, or extended with another chain to form a long necklace. Watch chain necklace, circa 1880, France.
Rhinoceros hallmark, eagle-head hallmark (french state hallmark for 18 karat gold)
Tank bracelet in 18 karat gold. That’s an important tank bracelet with round, high-volume lines, typical of this period in the 1940s. Reflecting a period when people concentrated their savings in voluminous jewelry to be able to take them with them quickly, tank jewelry takes its name from the chains used for the vehicles of the same name. Tank bracelet from 1940-1945, France.
Rhinoceros hallmark (french state hallmark for 18 karat gold), goldsmith’s hallmark illegible
Large vintage hematite bracelet in 18 karat (750) gold bracelet. Bracelet with large links of yellow gold and hematite, creating a beautiful contrast between the color of the two materials. The clasp is concealed in an invisible gold ring. Second-hand bracelet, circa 1980.
Mark 750 and oval goldsmith’s hallmark, owl and eagle hallmarks
Length: 18.5 cm Width: 15 mm
Note: the bracelet has a chain and 8 safety pins.
Condition: fine wear scratches
Weight: 39 g
More information : Hematite is a stone that takes its name from the Greek haimatos, meaning “blood”. It is a black stone with a metallic sheen that leaves a red trace when rubbed on porcelain. In ancient times, Egyptians, Greeks and Romans used it for amulets, intaglios and jewelry.
Vintage Charms bracelet in 18 karat yellow gold and precious stones. Rectangular flexible mesh bracelet from the 1960s, holding seven gold charms set with precious stones:
– a ship set with brilliant-cut diamonds and calibrated synthetic rubies
– a lantern set with emeralds and brilliant-cut diamonds
– a walker with a bag on his back, his pants adorned with rubies and diamonds and his bag with an emerald, a sapphire and a ruby
– a flower cart under a parasol, the flowers figured in diamonds, rubies, emeralds, blue sapphires and yellow sapphires.
– a dancer whose dress is adorned with emeralds, diamonds and rubies
– a man in a top hat carrying a bouquet of flowers made of diamonds, sapphires and rubies.
– of a fish in a pan adorned with diamonds and rubies.
This charm bracelet dates from the 1960s.
Owl hallmark (french state hallmark for 18 karat gold)
Length: 17 cm Mesh width: 7 mm
Note: the clasp has three safety eights.
Condition: scratches from use
Gay Freres tigers bracelet in 18 karat gold and silver. Rare band bracelet decorated with two confronting tiger heads, clasping a ring in their mouths. The body is in silver decorated with gold and black organic matter. The eyes of the two tigers are set with round rubies. The jewel opens and closes with a ratchet box and is secured with a safety eight. Gay Frères bracelet, circa 1960-1970.
Goldsmith’s hallmark Fay Frères and GOLD AND SILVER hallmark
Retro band bracelet in 18 karat yellow and white gold. Large bracelet made of a flexible articulated mesh forming diamond-shaped motifs in white and yellow gold. Bracelet, circa 1950-1960.
Hallmark 750, hallmark “MEP”, owl hallmarks
Length: 19.5 cm Width: 2.1 cm
Note: two safety clasps on the main clasp
Condition: slight wear scratches
Flexible Victorian bracelet in 18 karat gold. Flexible bracelet made of a beautiful old mesh decorated with striations. It is decorated with two small pearls. Antique bracelet, 19th century, circa 1880.
Weevil hallmarks (french state hallmark for 18 karat gold)
Antique Antillean bracelet in 18k yellow gold. Antique bracelet composed of twisted links forming grooved rings decorated with faceted spherical motifs. Antique bracelet from the Antilles, circa 1880, France.
Hallmarks: eagle’s head, rhinoceros head, and maker’s mark.
Length: 19.5 cm
Width: 10 mm
Note: the clasp is secured by an 18 karat gold safety chain.
Condition: minor wear and tear
Weight : 17.71 gr
*The antique box is not sold with the jewel*
Further information : Traditional jewelry is still worn in the Antilles for special occasions and cultural events. This regional Antilles jewelry is characterized by elaborate motifs such as twisted gold wires, vine leaves, forçat mesh, fluting, “gros sirop” mesh, gold wire spirals, etc.
Perpignan garnet bangle bracelet in 18 karat rose gold. Bangle bracelet featuring a rose gold hollow stem, the ends decorated with garnets. In the center of the bracelet, a flower formed of 9 round garnets, and on the sides a barrette motif formed of 3 garnets. The stones are “Perpignan” cut, a rose cut with a flat base. They have a beautiful raspberry-pink-red color, typical of Perpignan garnets. The garnets are mounted on foil and in closed setting. The setting is delicately decorated with triangular V-shaped figures on the edges, and the bezel backgrounds are domed. The clasp is a box-latch secured by a chain. Antique rush bracelet, circa 1880, Southeastern France.
Horsehead hallmarks (1838-1919, french state hallmark for 18 karat gold)
Center width: 14 mm
Inside length: 16.5 cm
Inside dimensions: 5 x 5.5 cm
Condition: slight wear scratches, small dents behind two bezels, a inner crack in one of the garnets.
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