‘The Crown Jewels of Hollywood’, The collection of Elizabeth Taylor at Christie’s New York

‘Celebrating The Life and Legacy of Elizabeth Taylor’, this totally stunning jewellery collection will be for sale at Christie’s New York within a few days. Enjoy this immens beautiful jewellery collection which is devided in ‘The Legendary Jewels’ and ‘Jewelry’ at the Christie’s evening auctions. The profits will be for ‘The Elizabeth Taylor
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Rare diamonds on display, at AMNH New-York City

Rare and extraordinary diamonds of the  Scarselli Collection on display at the American Museum of Natural History, New-York. Photo: Copyright Digital Jewelry Photography.

This exhibition will show extraordinary coloured natural diamonds & fancy coloured diamonds created in a laboratory.

The five strongest colours that occur in diamonds are on display; vivid orange-yellow, vivid blue-green, vivid
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Brooches of Madeleine Albright in Museum of Arts & Design, N-Y

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brooche by, Dutch designer, Gijs Bakker

 Many of the brooches owned byMadeleine Albright, first female of Secretary of State of the USA, are temporarily on display at the Museum of Arts & Design in New-York, from September, 30 2009 until January, 31 2010. In her new book “Read my pins; Stories from a Diplomat’s Jewel Box” she describes how
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List of Museums with jewellery or gem collections

France

Germany

Italy

  • The Etruscan Museum of Villa Giullia, Piazzale di Villa Giullia 9, Rome (No official web-site, Castellani collection)

Netherlands

  • Allard
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    Agenda Jewellery Auction Sales, 2009

    Bonhams:

    September 21, Las Vegas

    September 23, London

    Christie’s

    October 6, Paris

    October 21, London

    October 27, London (South Kensington)

    October 28, Dubaï

    November 18, Geneva

    Sotheby’s

    October 19, New-York

    November 17, Geneva

    December 9, New-York

    December 15, London


     

About

Margriet Sopers

Margriet Sopers, FGA

Having a diploma in jewellery, FGA and a propaedeutic of the Academy of Art followed-up by interesting years as a jewellery expert at Sotheby's & Gemeentelijke Krediet Bank, as well as being a member for years of the Society of Jewellery Historians, I am glad to share with you today's world of jewellery.

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