Featured 4 Pieces Jewel Help

Great pieces. The two bracelets look Deco to me, too.

I was surprised to see people say the purple necklace was older... it has a '20s Czech look to me?

 

Based on the color & the sharpness of the faceting, I like the 2 stone necklace for genuine amethyst; otherwise crystal. (I'm taking 'Czech look' to include the idea the stones are glass.)

 

What's that?

 

https://www.antiquers.com/threads/w-o-t-d-solenodon.31466/#post-416834

 

I found one with blue stones that sold through a police auction for $123.00 I'd be happy with that.
https://www.propertyroom.com/l/silv...e-art-deco-bracelet-with-blue-stones/12190502

 

that looks like a nice bracelet Bronwen is there some green panels or is it just the light?
I wasn't sure of the age of the cross, seems to be lots out there so I thought newer.

 

thank-you Scoutshouse, I'll have to save this! Will have a better look at it once I respond to these posts that I didn't see posted

 

I'm glad you asked, I couldn't figure it out either

 

thanks Pat I was thinking 30s but that was just a guess, agree it could be Czech

 

I'll get the stones checked on this one too

 

All the panels look like the one on the left, with the 'piano keys' around the stone & the green outside of that. For some reason those bits really caught the light.



I have no idea if this is true or not, just speculating that Israel, like so many other countries who used to have different standards for silver, may now have realized that 925/sterling is getting to be the norm & begun using it instead of 900, 950,999 & who knows what, so that these other degrees of fineness may indicate earlier age.

I've put a lot of time/effort into trying to find out just when lab grown color change sapphires came on to the market. The one clear indicator I found was Egyptian jewellery using them; have never seen a piece with a date mark earlier than 1940. (There's a really comprehensive alexandrite site that erroneously says they were available in 1909.) There seems to have been a fad for them in the 40s & again in the 60s. I've seen a lot of Jerusalem crosses that use them. Others have a non-changing purple or red stone. I'm guessing the crosses were popular as souvenirs in the same period the Egyptian jewellery was being brought back.

 

@Bronwen 's always got me uppin' my game!

 

I have found having an extensive vocabulary makes people think you know more than you really do. If you can correctly put a name to something, you must therefore know all about it, right?

 

A good way to discern if an item set in jewelry is stone or glass is to look at the facet edges where they meet. a stone will have sharp facets where glass will have a dull looking edge. Both bracelets look to me as if they have dull facet edges, so I am guessing glass. If you look at the close up of your 2 amethyst , the picture of the diamond shaped one shows sharp facets, whereas the filigree bracelet pic with the stones going left to right, the top left stone looks to have dull facet edges.
Clear as mud I know!

BTW. Stone or glass.......I like them all! Good Job!

 

I was thinking Czech because of the styling, but don't know a lot about earlier periods with a necklace like this.

Good point about the sharpness of the faceting. I've had a few '20s Czech glass pendants that had surprisingly sharp facets, but most aren't very sharp at all.

 

Would you believe early 1900's for synthetic color change sapphire (alexandrite) from GIA?
https://www.gia.edu/gem-synthetic

 

I don't know about faceted stones with the type of cut like the ones in the necklace, but I've had glass crystal beads that I assumed had a higher lead content because the edges looked quite sharp.

That said, I hope for Cxgirl's sake that they are amethysts and not glass.

 

If the glass stone is is molded most likely it will have rounded facet edges or an amateur cut the stone.Glass faceted "stones" will have sharp facets like most stones over a 4 hardness.

 

I do think her amethysts are real. I think both blue Bracelets are glass. But that is just my guess based on the pictures. it is really hard to tell for sure, without having them in hand.