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AMS8921 Guilloche enamel and diamond pendant by Henry Blank & Co. circa 1910
€4,950.00Paperclip link chain with tapered barrel beads and a central sautoir pendant with diamonds and natural pearls. Beads are elongated and feature opaque white enamel and blue guilloche enamel stripes. Transparent and glossed over an engraved radial pattern. Makers mark for Henry Blank & Co.
Founded as N.E Whiteside in 1890, Henry Blank joined in 1903 becoming Whiteside & Blank and then Henry Blank & Co. Makers mark of a C with an arrow through it was used from the beginning. Henry Blank had travelled to Europe to study and conduct business with watch movement manufacturers, and returned to America on board the Titanic, surviving the sinking in 1912 -
AVT8898 Exceptional quality cameo/pendant, circa 1870
A hard stone cameo of exceptional quality, depicting a Bacchante (female follower of the Roman god of wine, Bacchus – also known as a Maenad in Greek mythology, a follower of Dionysus the Greek god of wine)shown carrying a Thyrsus – a staff tipped with a pine cone or ivy – dancing in the abandonment of ecstatic frenzy. Exceptionally fine rope motif in a high carat gold mount with a heavier rope gold mount terminating in ram’s heads. The brooch fitting can be unscrewed to be worn on a chain. Original fitted case by Shepheard & Reed, Regent Street