The long necklaces are chains or necklaces that can be worn in single, double or triple row. They measure between 60 cm and 90 cm and arrive at the birth of the chest. Some can even measure more than a meter! We call them sautoir in French. This length is ideal for the pendants of beautiful size, a little heavy, and highlight them. Did you know that the necklace is also called “opera necklace”?
Long necklaces
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3780,00€Sautoir paperclip long chain in 18 karat gold. Important rectangular paperclip chain with rounded ends, forming a long sautoir. The necklace measures 95 cm and the links are hollow. It can be worn as a double tour. The clasp is a snap hook. Long necklace, circa 1920, France.
Eagle head hallmark (french state hallmark for 18 karat gold) and partially legible goldsmith’s hallmark.
Length: 95 cm
Thickness: 5.8 mmCondition: scratches from use, clasp probably changed.
Weight: 40.7 gr
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1100,00€Opal diamond pendant necklace in 9 karat gold and silver. Antique pendant composed of various floral elements set with 65 rose-cut diamonds, fine pearls and sapphires. An opal cabochon adorns the lower part of the pendant. Two natural round sapphires adorn the upper part of the jewel. Silver chain and round clasp. Belle Époque necklace, circa 1895.
Clover and swan hallmarks
Chain length: 50 cm
Height: 75 mm
Width: 24 mmEstimated sapphire weight: 0.18 carat
Estimated opal weight : 0.67 carat
Estimated diamond weight : 0.30 caratCondition: scratches from use
Weight : 12.18 gr
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1500,00€George Pierre Art Nouveau necklace in horn. Long Art Nouveau necklace in carved blond horn, embellished with black and ochre inks, in the shape of annual honesty plant. The pendant holds a blond horn tassel also colored black and ochre. The necklace is made of black silk ribbon decorated with two black glass beads. Art Nouveau necklace by Georges Pierre dit “GIP”, circa 1910, France.
Signed on the reverse GIP for Georges Pierre
Length: 72 cm
Design dimensions: 16 x 59 mmCondition: paint missing, scratches from use
Weight : 14.75 gr
More details : Slices of horn were dipped in hydrogen peroxide to make them translucent, then bathed in chemicals to give a shimmering sheen to the wings or a rosy sheen to the petals. The pendants, sculpted and dyed with inks, were mounted on silk ribbons, cords or chains with pastel glass beads repeating the delicate hues. Elisabeth Bonté and Georges Pierre G.I.P., initially rivals, pooled their resources and talents before producing horn jewelry until 1936, when Bakelite became the preferred material for costume jewelry.
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1800,00€Four rows coral beads necklace with a clasp in 18 karat gold. Antique necklace with four rows of coral beads from small to large pearls. The color of pearls is orange with shades of light to dark orange. The necklace closes with a large ratchet box clasp set with an elongated coral cabochon. Necklace circa 1940. Owl hallmark.
Length: 43 cm
Note: the necklace has been entirely threaded with new silk threads.
Weight : 61.66 gr
Gemological point: Coral is a gem of organic origin. Only the branched calcareous trunks of certain corals are used in jewellery. Its colour is due to organic pigments close to carotene: varying from blood red to white, passing by the pink “angel skin”. Currently, most coral species are protected under CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.
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2000,00€Antique mediterranean coral necklace. Four-strands coral necklace with flower clasp in 18k (725) gold. Important necklace composed of four rows of Mediterranean coral pearls of the same diameter. The necklace’s clasp takes the form of a flower adorned with 8 coral pearls and a coral button at its center. The clasp is made of 18 karat gold. Antique necklace, 19th century, circa 1880, France.
Eagle head hallmark (French state hallmark for 18-karat gold) and Ducreux Alfred goldsmith hallmark (active in Paris from 1872).
Total length: 60 cm
Note: rethreading has been done.
Weight: 82.51 gr
*The antique box is not sold with the jewel*
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1400,00€French long necklace with enamel clasp and 14 karat (585) and 18 karat (750) rose gold. The 14 karat gold clasp is rectangular with two facets. The facets are decorated with enamels and motifs: one centred on a shield framed by two laurel leaves, the corners enamelled blue; the other decorated with a frieze of triangles enamelled blue, the corners enamelled white. The 18 karat gold sautoir chain is made of jaseron mesh. French regional jewellery from the mid-19th century, Normandy region.
Shell head hallmarks on the clasp, chain tested 18 karats.
Dimensions of clasp: 8 mm x 12 mm
Length of necklace: 70 cmCondition: missing enamel, scratches from use
Weight : 8.09 gr