Mid-19th Century Choker Necklaces

Antique Victorian silver pendant necklace featuring an openwork floral motif set with paste stones and suspended from a black ribbon choker. The central element showcases a round-cut...

This One of a Kind Stunning Gemstone and Diamond Handmade Necklace Dates from The Victorian era Circa 1860's. The Necklace Measures 16" Inches Long with a 2" Inch Center Drop. It C...

Victorian style gold necklace from the mid-19th century with turquoises and a snake motif. Made of four links made of 18-karat blown gold, which are connected by elements in the sha...

Collier rivière ancien en argent vermeillé du milieu du 19ème siècle, formé de 27 motifs de fleurs soulignés de cabochons de turquoise entre lesquels viennent s'intercaler un cabochon de turquoise. À noter le fermoir boule à cliquet souligné de deux lignes de cabochons de turquoise et...

Antique Garnet Necklace 12ct Rose Gold Circa 1850’s Lovely, Georgian collar necklace. Set with pretty, flat cut garnets, set in rose gold...

bohemian fire dragons or carbuncle stones, bohemian garnets have always been very popular because of their bright ruby color and especially in fashion they came as empress Sissi...

A beautiful Victorian rivière diamond necklace c.1860s set with eighty two old cut diamonds in open backed silver cut down collets backed with gold, ...

A wonderful diamond, pearl and agate necklace by Hancocks c.1865 designed as an extravagant festoon of swags, drops and star like motifs, the gold snake-link chain set to the front w...

An 18 carat gold elegant Georgian necklace set with 18 graduating oval facetted oval topazes each richly decorated with cannetille and granulatio...

A Victorian gold and turquoise serpent necklace, the flexible tapering yellow gold body formed of three rows of scale-like collets each set with a round cabochon-cut turquoise, the head encrusted with cabochon-cut turquoises of various shapes, the brows and the mouth set with rose-cut diamonds and the eyes with cabochon-cut rubies, all mounted in yellow gold, circa 1850, measuring approximately 39.5cm long, gross weight 39.5 grams, a similar example is illustrated in Understanding Jewellery, by David Bennett and Daniela Mascetti, plate 108. A Victorian gold and turquoise necklace in excellent condition. Unmarked, tested as 15ct gold and silver. This exceptional Victorian serpent necklace...

A Victorian diamond set necklace centre piece, the triangular shape centre piece with six principle old brilliant-cut diamonds, estimated to weigh a total of 1.4 carats, with rose-cut and old brilliant-cut diamonds set throughout, estimated to weigh a further total of 0.6 carats, suspending a pearl drop surmounted with a rose-cut diamond cap, within cut-down silver setting to a gold mount strung to four rows of freshwater cultured pearls with diamond-set clasp and bars and a detachable brooch fitting, circa 1890, the clasp later hallmarked 18ct gold 2014 London, the centre-piece measuring approximately 3.8 x 3cm, the necklace measuring approximately 39 x 3cm, gross weight of the necklace 48.2 grams. This diamond set pearl necklace is in Excellent condition. An elegant pearl and diamond necklace with an exquisite 1840s diamond centrepiece strung to a four-row pearl and diamond collar...

This refreshing, bright minty green jadeite jade necklace from the Art Deco era is just sixteen inches in length and features an elegant clasp of 18K white gold centered with a gemmy little natural oval cut sapphire of about one-quarter carat. Small it may be, but it's a lovely little unheated sapphire in a very pleasing shade of blue distinctly reminiscent of blueberries. A smattering of tiny full-cut white diamonds adds just enough glitter. The seventy-one (71) lab-certified natural and untreated jadeite beads graduate in size from 4.70 mm near the clasp to 6.55 mm in the center. This is a petite though spectacularly chic necklace with translucent, evenly-toned light mint green beads that have retained their original mirror polish. I am normally drawn to much darker green jade but these beads stopped me in my tracks. They are just so lovely. I never use that word, lovely. But it's exactly the right word to describe these beads. They glow even in the shadows. I took the second-to-last photograph in dim natural light and I mean, just look. That's what the necklace looks like when you're in a dark room. And the first shots on the white bust is what the necklace looks like in indoor, office lighting. It's permanently beautiful. I love the combination of the minty green and blueberry sapphire. My grandmother from Atlanta who absolutely worshipped All Things Jade would have traded her husband for this necklace. You know how I know? Because she loved to make mint juleps by taking a handful of ice from her pastel pink GE Frost Guard refrigerator/freezer, tossing the ice into a stainless steel cocktail shaker, adding a handful of the mint that grew on both side of the red brick walkway that led to the kitchen door and a handful of blueberries from the bushes that grew with wild abandon near the little shed where she kept her rakes and other gardening implements. Then she would take one of her daddy's mortars (he had been a pharmacist) and she would crush the blueberries, mint, and ice all up together. Finally, she would add a tablespoon of sugar and a few glugs of bourbon. Then she'd screw on the top of the cocktail shaker and shake it so hard and fast her blond hair—which was cemented into position—would shake atop her head. Finally, she would poor the icy beverage into a tall cut-crystal glass and carry it out front onto the porch where she would take a seat in one of the old white wicker rocking chairs...