Antique Diamond Convertible Suite

Description:

Antique Diamond Convertible Suite, the necklace designed as a garland of flowers set throughout with old European and old mine-cut diamonds, removable old mine- and rose-cut diamond leaf and knife-edge bar chain, and armature for tiara conversion, with additional findings for conversion into five pins or five hair ornaments, and two sets of hairpins, silver-topped gold mount, within original fitted box for London & Ryder, New Bond St.

Note: Purchased in London in 1897 by Charles Fisher's grandmother, Julia Bryant Paine, the wife of Charles Jackson Paine, for Mrs. Paine to wear at various formal occasions in London, including presentation to Queen Victoria in the year of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
Estimate $6,000-8,000

Findings for hair ornaments not gold. Gold apparently 15kt.


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