Jewellery, Watches, Antiquities and Objects of Vertu

A late Victorian diamond necklace, circa 1890, designed as a graduating fringe of old-cut diamond in pinched collet settings, mounted on knife-edge bars and spaced with diamond-set foliate motifs, below an articulated row of box-set diamonds, the detachable back chain similarly set, mounted in silver and gold throughout, in original fitted case, the silk lining signed ‘The Association of Diamond Merchants Jewellers & Silversmiths 6 Grand Hotel Buildings Trafalgar Square London’, diamond weight approximately 14 carats total, length 19cm.

£8,000-£12,000

Although not presented with its frame, this necklace can also convert to a tiara.