Antique Jewelry Market Winners
The fall sales in Geneva, Switzerland—Christie’s fine watches on November 15, 2010, and jewels on November 17 and Sotheby’s jewels on November 16—produced some unfathomable prices realized for magnificently crafted pieces of jewelry that many of us have seen only in catalogs or in on-line searches. These elite sales, along with two auctions in the States—of fine jewelry on September 15 in Chicago at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers and “The Nature of Opals” on November 10 in San Francisco at Bonhams & Butterfields—give us a broad picture of some of what’s happening in the jewelry market.
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