Also from the U.S. is "Florida Palm, " a gorgeous brooch designed for Tiffany by G.
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On his vest, he wore an encrusted brooch in the shape of a tiger his party's electoral symbol.
Jill Cousins, from Market Harborough, saw a picture of the brooch she owned featured on the Antiques Roadshow.
The Williamson Brooch incorporates at its center what is considered to be the finest pink diamond ever discovered.
The brooch centers on the serene face of a woman with closed eyes believed to be Lalique's wife, Augustine Ledru.
Another stylish item in the Sotheby's catalog is a mermaid brooch by Verdura.
Younger sister Margaret had a Belperron flower brooch made of gold and diamonds.
One is an enamel, baroque pearl, diamond and gold brooch from around 1899-1901.
Case in point: the so-called Tudor Rose, a life-sized diamond rose brooch created by Parisian jeweler Theodore Fester in 1855.
The duchess wore a white dress and red hat - the colours of Canada's flag - and the Queen's maple leaf brooch.
She said it was not unusual to bury cremated remains in a bag fastened with a brooch in late Iron Age Kent.
Mrs Cousins was invited to appear on the BBC One television show in Birmingham after she took the brooch to the auctioneers Gildings.
She came to rest before a wide-paneled window and swallowed, her throat squeezing behind a brooch of diamonds thick as a clenched fist.
The Duke of Windsor commissioned a panther brooch in the late 1940s, and since then the panther has become an iconic Cartier motif.
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And there is a fun contemporary brooch for children by Switzerland's David Bielander in the shape of a pig's head and covered in pearls.
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Mr. Sharf said he was pleased when the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum borrowed his ruby flower Van Cleef brooch called the "Command Special" to exhibit.
At one point, he arranges for a researcher with a hidden camera behind her crystal brooch to offer Sotheby's in Milan a minor Italian Old Master for sale in London.
It also includes 10 complete arm rings, two finger rings, six brooch fragments, a fine wire braid and 141 fragments of chopped-up arm rings and ingots, known as hacksilver.
There are a few exceptions, like the only piece of jewelry in the sale, an Art Deco diamond and sapphire brooch given to the actress by then-boyfriend Howard Hughes.
Highlights include some wonderfully whimsical pieces, like a brooch in the shape of a flower whose gold petals are engraved with the words "yes" and "no" on either side.
Leading the selection is an emerald and diamond brooch, originally purchased by a Texas oil-man and personal client to Mr. Winston who called upon the jeweler for a significant gemstone.
It also includes 10 complete arm rings, two finger rings, six bossed brooch fragments, a fine wire braid and 141 fragments of chopped-up arm rings and ingots, known as hacksilver.
Another piece, a gold brooch set with an ancient gold coin that pictures Philip II of Macedonia, has patterns made of diamonds, blue topazes, amethysts, peridots, and pink and red tourmalines.
She wears her biography like a brooch, a shiny tale of a refugee--first from Hitler, then Stalin--who fell in love with the country that saved her and fulfilled its promise of unlimited promise.
Although the bronze brooch part would not be of the same value, because it was found alongside the ingot it means they are both likely to be historically valuable - so it was declared treasure trove too.
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Inspired by a 16th century portrait of Mary Queen of Scots, who wore it as a pendant to a brooch, Taylor commissioned Cartier to design a new mount of matched natural pearls and rubies, designed by Al Durante.
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Ms. Windsor, donning a diamond brooch that Ms. Spyer gave her instead of an engagement ring, told the crowd after making her plea to the Supreme Court that she was "thrilled and exalted and humbled" to attend the arguments.
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In 1948, the Duchess of Windsor commissioned Toussaint by then the first woman to be named artistic director of a high jewelry house to create the first of many felines: a brooch featuring a golden cat with black enamel spots crouching over an emerald cabochon.
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