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Antique Diamond, Platinum-Topped Gold Necklace, Tiffany & Co.The necklace features a marquise-cut diamond measuring 11.50 x 6.80 x 4.19 mm and weighing 2.06 carats, enhanced by European-cut diamonds weighing a total of approximately 8.55 carats, set in platinum-topped gold, marked for Tiffany & Co. Total diamond weight is approximately 10.61 carats. A GIA Laboratory report # 6177281964, dated August 18, 2015, stating D color, SI2 clarity, accompanies the marquise diamond. Gross weight 32.50 grams.
Length: 14 inches
Drop Dimensions: 1-1/4 inches x 1/4 inch
Estimate: $55,000 - $75,000.
Condition Report*:
Designer: Tiffany & Co.
Diamond Average Color: G-H-I
Diamond Certification No: 6177281964
Diamond Lab: GIA
Diamond Average Clarity: VS
Diamond Shapes: Marquise-cut, European-cut
Diamond Count: 100+
Overall Condition: Very Good
Notes: A spectacular diamond necklace! Clasp has fading marks: "TIFF & CO". Clasp also has two jump rings. Metal on top of the necklace tests as platinum; gold on the bottom tests as 18k. Comes in a fitted box signed "TIFFANY & CO NEW YORK PARIS LONDON. Box has monogram: M.H.F and shows signs of age.
Tiffany & Co.: Tiffany & Co. remains the largest luxury-item retailer in the world, offering sterling silver, jewelry, crystal, china, stationery, leather goods, and fragrances. In 1837, Charles L. Tiffany and John B. Young opened “Tiffany & Young” in New York City as a “fancy goods emporium” which sold stationery, European decorative objects, Chinese pottery and umbrellas, desks, and silver. Major silver manufacturers, such as Grosjean & Woodward, William Gale, Gorham, and John C. Moore, supplied the flatware and hollowware selections, and by the mid-1850s, “Tiffany, Young & Ellis” (renamed in 1841 with the addition of partner J.L. Ellis) had become the leading silver retailer in New York. In 1852, the company began utilizing the English sterling silver standard, which was later adopted by the U.S. government as the American standard. In 1853, Tiffany bought out his partners to build the jewelry arm of the firm, at which point “Tiffany & Co.” was officially born.
With the outbreak of the Civil War, Tiffany & Co., or “Tiffany,” became an arsenal for the North, producing swords, flags, uniforms, and surgical instruments, and supplying rifles and ammunition from Europe. By the end of the 1860s, the firm was creating its own silver designs – bowls, pitchers, tea services, and other tableware -- for which it received major recognition, including an award for excellence in silverware at the 1867 Paris Exposition Universelle and the gold medal for jewelry and the silver prize for silverware at this Exposition in 1878. Wealthy U.S. families, such as the Astors, Vanderbilts, Morgans, and Posts, purchased silver and diamonds from Tiffany, and, beyond this hefty endorsement, the company broadened its sales through a mail order catalog, the “Blue Book,” first published in 1845. When Charles L. Tiffany died in 1902, his son, Louis Comfort Tiffany, became the firm’s first official Design Director.
Tiffany solidified its position as both a team-playing American company and an international tastemaker during the twentieth century. With the onset of WW I and WW II, the firm again turned its attention to the war effort by manufacturing airplane parts and surgical instruments. 1940 saw the opening of Tiffany’s new and now legendary store on 5th Avenue, structured like a grand ballroom with special lighting to offset the silver and jewelry. During the post-War decades, Tiffany’s president Walter Hoving brilliantly increased sales by reaching out to a broader customer base: he hired famous designers to create products for the store -- for example, silver jewelry by Frank Gehry, Elsa Peretti, Paloma Picasso, and Jean Schlumberger and stationery by Andy Warhol – and he opened Tiffany stores internationally. Today, Tiffany operates in twenty-two countries and nets sales of over $3.6 billion.
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