Featured Can you help me date some of my auction winning goodies?

Hello everyone! I won these items amongst others from a few auction houses recently and was hoping you could help me date them. I think Victorian for the brooch and ring but was hoping you could help narrow down if early or later? The brooch is tiny, enamel and seed pearls, marked 9ct. The ring is (I think around 9ct) gold with garnets and pearls- a few of the pearls look a little poorly fixed or replaced with visible glue. The intaglio is amethyst glass - a pendant? watch fob?! The green glass bead necklace is broken but are the beads older?-they don't glow. Thanks all

 

Ooh, very nice! I love that cobalt blue! Surprised the green beads aren’t glowers as they look like they should. Still interesting and unusual.
I never win anything at auction houses. I had my eye on something today estimated at £40-£60.
£800……………

 

WOW that's a lot of money, what was the item?! Yes I bid on the beads thinking they might glow but still interesting nonetheless! I love buying from auction houses online, factor in the shipping I still do pretty well out of it

 

Actually the estimate was £50 -£80. I knew they would top £150 but still!

 

Nice! That is a beautiful lot.

 

I know what you mean. Just a jumble of pieces, some even not turned over.

 

The OP's pieces.... The cameo looks like it was on a Florenza necklace originally. I'd guess 1880s on the pin. The ring looks like pearl and garnet. The cased glass beads look like they're Italian; I bet @Ownedbybear recognizes them.

I bet that's why it went as high as it did. Some nice stuff showing and everybody was hoping for what wasn't showing. Sapphiret is a magic word even now.

 

Brooch is mid to late 19th.Lovely. Ring is way more modern, I'd think post war. I'd certainly think Italian on those nice beads.

I'm staring at that lot and not seeing saphiret. Sappharine, maybe. Plus yes, some satin but also moonglow.

 

Yea, I thought the same thing, no saphiret there, nice lot though

 

I saw things that would be called sapphiret by those who didn't know, or who knew their audience wouldn't know. No Victorian glass, all post-War.

 

Love your new 'stuff', Elen.

I would place it earlier, early 19th century. In UK terms late Georgian.
The combination of that rectangular shape, what looks like a slightly rounded back and the type of vivid blue enamel on a textured silver background are typical of the period imo.
I wonder if the pearls were replaced at some stage in its life.
It is absolutely gorgeous.

 

Thanks for your input everyone! I will share more of my auction goodies soon

 

Good point on the enamel and cushion back. Those pearls do look very white.

On that auction lot, I foresee happy seller, less happy buyer. The duettes are nice, and slightly unusual, but I don't see eight hundred quid plus commission.

 

Me too. That was my thinking at c£150 but £800!
Sorry @Elen Beattie I didn’t mean to hijack your thread, it just sort of evolved!

 

£150 would be a bit high for me, but I'm a cheapskate!

 

That’s what I thought it would go for not what I was going to pay! You know me

 

Yup - we'd both top out at about 50 quid!

 

I'd be trying to grab them for half that.

 

Yeah well. People hear sapphiret and lose their minds.

 

Truth!