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Competition in New York, October 8 Doyle auction jewelry pieces of Perdita Schaffner Navy Blue Velvet Unisex Zentai Suit collection caused prices to skyrocket with 190,543 dollars gross more than double in the bottom of its $ 84,975 $ 119,200 estimate.
Louis LeB. Webre, a spokesman for Doyle's in New York, attributed the success to the quality of parts and fresh on the market. Imprisoned since more than 60 years in a Swiss bank, the jewels belonged to the original Lady Ellerman Hannah Glover, wife of Sir John Reeves Ellerman (1862-1933), a tycoon port said to be the richest man in Britain during the day. Jewellery sent the girl Ellerman, Bryher, who has left his daughter, Perdita Schaffner. But Schaffner rarely wore jewelry, so that the collection has remained in a bank vault after his death the year last.
Highlighting the 27 lots were a diamond necklace 16 inches long, has 56 stones weighing approximately 23.50 carat, and a silver flower brooch focus of a 2-carat diamond surrounded by 85 diamonds forming a set of petals. The necklace was $ 34,655 and $ 17,925 the pin.
She cited as examples the ring of 5.72 carats of emerald cut diamonds which sold for $ 59,925 to $ 25,000 against an estimated $ 30,000, the Art Deco diamond bracelet and Sapphire has $ 22,325 to 10,000 against an estimate of $ 15,000 USD, and the pair of Orange Lycra Spandex Unisex Spiderman Zentai Costume Etruscan Revival 16-carat gold earrings that look for $ 5,053 against a $ 800 to $ 1,200 estimate.
It was the quality, color and size of diamonds in the ring and bracelet that has pushed their prices above their estimates, "said Lieberman. As the earrings, they were made by the London jeweler Robert Phillips, one of the most famous mid-19th century, scholars Victoria in the archaeological jewels, whose works rarely come on the market.
jewelry for men has also prompted calls for tenders, with a pair of dress 18K gold and tourmaline Zentai zentai selling for 11,163 dollars, against an estimated $ 2,500 to $ 3,500, and an early 18 Gold Zentai Costume Face carat minute repeating pocket watch is $ 8,225 against an estimate of $ 1,500 to $ 2,000.
Another Purple Blue Zentai Spidrerman piece suits, a set-pin jewelry representative mouse Stuart Little, has reached $ 12,925 against a forecast $ 10,000 in 8000 $, but the gloss AUTIONS much of the Arts & Crafts Pendant-brooch and ring Florence Koehler, proved to be a "disappointment," said Lieberman. A unique piece of jewelry that was reproduced on the cover of the auction catalog, it was expected to sell for well over his estimate of $ 25,000 to $ 35,000. However, failing to excite the interest of collectors, it sold to a dealer for $ 30,550.
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