Featured Gorgeus necklace but no idea what it is...

Including what the others have said above, he needs to send you IN FOCUS Close-ups or ENLARGEMENTS!!! It looks nice, but nothing that we can enlarge to see it's finesse!!!

 

In the morning i will ask him to take more pictures... he send a lot of pictures so i am certain that he will send some more i will post them as soon as i get them... and thank you all for helping me!

 

what price is he asking?

 

Before! I said 1830s, but impossible to find a piece to show with same enamel and style... It can go to 1840... Restauration era

 

Just trying to see the timeline, is the Restauration era after the revolution of 1848?

 

Before, under kings Charles X and Louis XVIII.

 

I'm anxiously waiting for an answer from them... hopefully soon! I have to say that I like it more and more and I really hope we find out something good about it.

 

Just my HO - Irenka, if you like it so much and if you can afford it, don't let yourself be discouraged if something is not exactly as described. There is a saying in my country that "keyif (pleasure) is priceless".

 

Thank you, Fig!!

 

there's a saying in my country too.......

" don't buy a pig in a poke " ....

 

True that! But if someone likes it so much, how does it matter that it is not exactly what the seller claims it to be? I don't mean the necklace to be pot metal with glass stones sold for the price of gold with rubies, then it is indeed not worth. But I saw opinions here that it most probably is an authentic French Restoration piece and I trust them. Even if there are no marks. Of course, it is also a matter of price, but I said "if you can afford it". I personally can see that the necklace is beautiful but it is not my taste. If it were and I could afford it, I would buy even if there were no marks or the marks were indiscernible.

 

I got an answer...the guy says the necklace doesn't have any markings because it's supposed to be 200+ years old and they weren't used back then?
But he said that we can go to the jeweler to check what it is made of.

the necklace does not open at the back and does not have a clasp, but opens at the front...It's not clear to me from the pictures where, but ok

 

@IvaPan said “I don't mean the necklace to be pot metal with glass stones sold for the price of gold with rubies, then it is indeed not worth.”
Exactly! The piece is obviously not a knockoff, just has to be affordable

 

I see the two clasps, one on each side of the central motif. Narrow tongue in box system, only the push part appears in the pics. Perhaps the motif could be worn as a bracelet with a shorter chain!
No marking is ok for me, condition is wonderful, now is the question of.... the price he wants

 

If the seller agrees to go together to a jeweller to test the metal and the stones, I don't see a problem. The problem can be the price if not affordable for Irenka, IMO. As Kyra also pointed.

 

He still hasn't said how much he wants for it... maybe he is saving it for next time... because he did told me that the necklace was in the newspapers because of its story, but he didn't said anything else... i did look if i could find the article, and i did but just one bit, and there they say that this guy is like a treasure hunter and that he has necklace from mistress of Napoleon, you know Emilia Kraus, the love of Napoleon was Slovenian... i just dont know why he didnt bother to tell that to me, maybe is this just the story for newspapers, but it would explain why he had marked pictures like Napoleon...

With that said if he will said that this is that necklace i can just guess the price he would want

but strange... if the story is true why not sell it at an auction, why would he tease a local antiquer ?

 

Hm, the latest development is somehow discouraging. I always get suspicious when someone starts talking about veeery big story behind an item...

Very good point!
My guess would be because he cannot prove anything. But if he cannot prove anything, no one can be sure it is true and no one will be willing to pay the premium due to this story.

 

The story is just a story, without elements of proof :
A letter, a portrait, a jeweller invoice relating a link between THIS necklace and Emilia Kraus...
I "sniff" a big price coming

 

Me too.
I would run with 100 in the opposite direction. Hate blackmailers.

Furthermore, even the story of this Emilia Kraus with Napoleon seems not proven not to mention her alleged necklace.

 

Me too!