Appraisal: Ruby & Diamond Bracelet, ca. 1895
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Appraisal: Ruby & Diamond Bracelet, ca. 1895
Watch Berj Zavian appraise a ruby & diamond bracelet, ca. 1895, in Did Grandma Lie?
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Appraisal: Ruby & Diamond Bracelet, ca. 1895
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Watch Berj Zavian appraise a ruby & diamond bracelet, ca. 1895, in Did Grandma Lie?
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My mother was a German countess, and her ancestors started in Russia, and then, during the Russian Revolution, they fled to France.
APPRAISER: Okay.
GUEST: And at that time, they were supposed to have acquired this piece.
APPRAISER: In France?
GUEST: In France.
It was supposed to have belonged to Marie Antoinette, that's the story I got from my mother.
My mother was born in France.
And then they moved to Germany, and she was raised in a castle in Munich.
APPRAISER: You have five beautiful Burmese rubies here.
They're roughly somewhere around four carats, maybe four-and-a-half carats.
GUEST: Wow.
APPRAISER: In the trade, we call the best rubies pigeon-blood red rubies.
And that's what you have here.
GUEST: Wow.
APPRAISER: They're bright.
And they're not treated, they're natural, and... You know the bracelet was made in France.
GUEST: I was assuming that it was.
APPRAISER: Oh, okay.
GUEST: Since my mother told me that it was Marie Antoinette's, but... APPRAISER: Okay, well, Marie Antoinette never saw this bracelet.
GUEST: Okay.
(laughs) APPRAISER: The hallmarks, the double eagles in the head, tell you it was made in France and it's 18-karat gold.
GUEST: Mm-hmm.
APPRAISER: The gold is on the reverse side.
If you turn it over like that...
GUEST: Uh-huh.
APPRAISER: You see the yellow gold.
The top, all the diamonds, they're very tiny full-cut diamonds.
They're set in platinum.
GUEST: Okay.
APPRAISER: So this is late 1800s when it was made.
GUEST: Okay.
Not Marie Antoinette.
APPRAISER: Not Marie Antoinette.
She could never have wore it.
GUEST: No.
APPRAISER: Ever wear this bracelet?
GUEST: No, my mother used to wear it all the time.
In fact, she left it in a car that my father sold.
And she realized that she had left it and went back the next day, and it was still in the glove box, so... APPRAISER: Oh, my God.
GUEST: (laughs) I guess I'm fortunate to still have it.
APPRAISER: A piece like this in today's market could easily sell for somewhere between $30,000 and $35,000.
GUEST: This piece?
APPRAISER: This piece, at auction.
GUEST (chuckling): Well, I'll hold onto it for a long time, then.
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Clip: S27 Ep23 | 44s | Appraisal: 1873 California Gold Quartz Presentation Cane (44s)
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Clip: S27 Ep23 | 1m 20s | Appraisal: 1900 Mark Twain Letter (1m 20s)
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Clip: S27 Ep23 | 2m 17s | Appraisal: 1903 Colt Single Action Army Revolver (2m 17s)
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Clip: S27 Ep23 | 3m 21s | Appraisal: Benjamin Greenleaf Oil Portraits, ca. 1810 (3m 21s)
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Clip: S27 Ep23 | 2m 30s | Appraisal: Concord, Massachusetts Federal Card Table, ca. 1800 (2m 30s)
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Clip: S27 Ep23 | 1m 2s | Appraisal: Dalzell Findlay Onyx Muffineer, ca. 1889 (1m 2s)
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Clip: S27 Ep23 | 40s | Appraisal: Dedham Pottery Vase, ca. 1900 (40s)
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Clip: S27 Ep23 | 42s | Appraisal: French Campaign Clock, ca. 1790 (42s)
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Clip: S27 Ep23 | 2m 56s | Appraisal: French Porcelain Vases, ca. 1860 (2m 56s)
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Clip: S27 Ep23 | 1m 16s | Appraisal: Hiratsuka Filigree & Cloisonné Teapot, ca. 1895 (1m 16s)
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Clip: S27 Ep23 | 1m 57s | Appraisal: Hopi Kachina Figure, ca. 1910 (1m 57s)
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Clip: S27 Ep23 | 1m 8s | Appraisal: Late 19th C. Fish Scale-decorated Anchor (1m 8s)
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Clip: S27 Ep23 | 2m 57s | Appraisal: Matched-pair Diamond Ring, ca. 1910 (2m 57s)
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Clip: S27 Ep23 | 3m 31s | Appraisal: Oglala Sioux Winter Count (3m 31s)
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Clip: S27 Ep23 | 2m 44s | Appraisal: Oil Painting Attributed to Franciabigio, ca. 1520 (2m 44s)
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Clip: S27 Ep23 | 3m 14s | Appraisal: Old Hickory Rocking Chair, ca. 1910 (3m 14s)
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Clip: S27 Ep23 | 3m 47s | Appraisal: Ottoman Zarf, ca. 1875 (3m 47s)
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Clip: S27 Ep23 | 3m 39s | Appraisal: Renaissance-revival Poison Ring, ca. 1875, in Green Bay Hour 2. (3m 39s)
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Clip: S27 Ep23 | 2m 39s | Appraisal: Child's Windsor Chair & Passport, ca. 1815 (2m 39s)
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Clip: S27 Ep23 | 2m 57s | Appraisal: Diamond & Emerald Conversion Ring, ca. 1920 (2m 57s)
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