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Vintage Ciner Gold Tone with Diamante Rounded Choker Necklace. No more need be said about this beauty. It is a classic that has been made throughout the centuries. Always in style....

Vintage Phillipe Farrandis Gold Tone Dangling Disc Necklace with 2 large and 3 small Dangling pieces. This is so chic on anything. Looks like a plant with a small ladybug on the plant though not really easy to detect. A spectacular piece. THE PATH “I knew what path I had to follow the day I discovered an antique brooch in my grandmother’s jewellery box.” Philippe Ferrandis was born into a family of artists. From childhood, he was attracted to jewellery through its many representations in art and painting. As a matter of course, he created his first collections and launched his brand in 1986. EARLY COLLECTIONS His style and audacity soon seduced great Parisian fashion houses such as Pierre Balmain, Nina Ricci, Hubert de Givenchy, Chantal Thomas...

Vintage Open Back Crystal Sautoir Necklace. Stunning. Should be one of those need be pieces in your wardrobe. Can be wrapped double or worn long. ...

Smoky Quartz nugget necklace accented with gold tone flutters and vivid green Czech beads. This elegant necklace features a smokin' focal of 38x21MM. The Smokies are so clean you c...

Alex Soldier's Meteorite collection represents a mystery that the universe unfolds all around us, filling our lives with laughter, wonder and magic. Each beautiful jewel from this un...

Vintage Maison Gripoix Green, Crystal, Red and Faux Pearl on Gold Chain Necklace with Dangling Green Piece. 3 Different Emblems On Gold Chain with Dangling Green Piece in the Middle. 22"-24" L. Dangling Middle is 3" L. Each Piece is 2" by 2". Looks like Chanel. Guy de Maupassant wrote a famous story about a necklace. The story is about a young, pretty, intelligent, well educated but poorly endowed bride who has to marry a petty official; and thus suffering from the limitations of living a life with a husband that lacked any exquisite qualities. In order to entertain his dejected spouse, one day her husband gets an invitation to a ball and gives his wife 400 francs he had saved for a hunting rifle so that she would be able to order an appropriate dress. However, when the dress is ready it becomes clear that it is lacking jewelry; and it would be impossible to attend the ball while looking so poor. The protagonist approaches her rich childhood friend with whom she was raised together at the monastery and borrows a diamond necklace from her. The ball is a great success and she is the centre of attention. However when the woman returns home, she discovers that she has lost the necklace. In order to conceal her faux pas from her friend, she buys a new necklace identical to the one she lost, and to pay it off the woman gets into a huge debt which over the years gradually drags her down the social ladder from bourgeoisie to poverty. Ten years later, having lost her good looks, the woman encounters her friend on the Champs Elysees, who still looks young, beautiful and rich. The protagonist reveals to her friend the whole story about the necklace, but her friend replies in amazement that the diamonds were fake and would “cost 500 francs at most”. Maison Gripoix starts out with a dramatic story. In 1869 (or a year earlier, according to other sources), Paris master glass-maker Augustina Gripoix began making replicas of pearls and crystals; casting glass into different shapes and colours and inserting them into most sophisticated settings. She used the pâte de verre (glass paste) technique, whereby a traditional ceramic or qypsum form was filled with a multi-colour pieces of glass and special gluing substances and then baked in a furnace, resulting in objects featuring fantastical hues. Only Augustina made her crystals by pouring the melted glass paste into the press moulds skipping the furnace step, allowing her to achieve the purity of colour, transparency and shine. She found a simple method to make beautiful jewelry and thus Marquises, Duchesses and Princesses qued up ... so Madame Gripoix would make them replicas of their own jewelry in case of robbery or loss, or some unusual jewelry pieces for their new wraps, neckpieces, or boas. The so-called ‘costume jewelry’ emerged to a large extent thanks to the work of Maison Gripoix. Augustina Gripoix earned her fame in the 1890’s when she started making necklaces for Sarah Bernhardt to wear on stage; and later the costume jewelry for the first high fashion house of Charles Frederick Worth. Later on, Paul Poiret, the leading couturier of the 1910’s contacted her and she created sophisticated oriental style jewelry for him to match his famous oriental costumes based on the aesthetic of Diaghilev’s initial Russian seasons. The value of costume jewelry was now being recognized in its own right; and not just for imitation purposes. The taste of emancipated young girls, who were gaining more and more freedom and opportunities, was best met with bijouterie. So in the 1920, when Augustina’s daughter Susan became the head of the House; Gripoix prospects became even more exciting. Girls with short-cropped hair in short dresses zoomed by in open-top cars wearing bijou rather than diamonds. Everyone ordered bijouterie from Madam Gripoix during this period, from Jeanne Lanvin to Jean Piguet...

Alex Soldier's Meteorite collection represents a mystery that the universe unfolds all around us, filling our lives with laughter, wonder and magic. Each beautiful jewel from this un...

Vintage Boucher Gold and Crystal Fan Like Necklace Circa 1960s. Fan like pieces with round stones fall into place onto the next one in a pattern that forms this beautiful classic or...

Vintage Sterling Open Back Crystal Necklace Circa 1920s. Most people don't understand the beauty of these until they try them on. When worn agains...

Vintage Boucher Textured Spiky Gold Tone Choker Necklace. The spikes are all at different sizes. Some are textured and some are shiny to add contrast. There is an extender that is o...

Vintage CHRISTIAN LACROIX Wide Resin Gold Tone Choker Necklace Circa 1990s. This will elevate your look and be in style until the end of time. It looks so simple but it makes the en...

Vintage CHRISTIAN LACROIX Triple Layer Gold Tone Choker Masai Necklace. Triple Ring Rigid Necklace Choker. This is ICONIC Lacroix. This will elevate y...