
Appraisal: Tiffany & Co. Art Deco Ring, ca. 1925
Clip: Season 29 Episode 14 | 2m 6sVideo has Closed Captions
Appraisal: Tiffany & Co. Art Deco Ring, ca. 1925
Check out Virginia Salem’s appraisal of a Tiffany & Co. Art Deco ring, ca. 1925, in Maryland Zoo, Hour 2.
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Appraisal: Tiffany & Co. Art Deco Ring, ca. 1925
Clip: Season 29 Episode 14 | 2m 6sVideo has Closed Captions
Check out Virginia Salem’s appraisal of a Tiffany & Co. Art Deco ring, ca. 1925, in Maryland Zoo, Hour 2.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipGUEST: This is my grandmother's ring.
And she gave it to me in her will when she passed.
And I don't know anything about it other than it's got a really big blue stone that I think is a lapis lazuli.
So I wore it on my wedding day as my something blue.
She was born around 1919, I think, and she worked on the New York Stock Exchange in the 1940s.
And her mother-in-law was someone who worked with diamonds in New York City.
Uh, so my great-grandmother might have had this ring and given it to my grandmother.
APPRAISER: It's an Art Deco ring and it's going to be made, I'm thinking around 1925.
Inside the shank-- it's this platinum shank-- it's a very obliterated mark.
And I said, "What is that saying?"
So I took the ten-power loupe and I looked and I looked and it says "Y and Co." Tiff...
GUEST: Tiffany and Company!
APPRAISER: Company, you got it, GUEST: Oh!
APPRAISER: Yep, yep.
It's Tiffany and Company.
GUEST: Oh, my goodness!
APPRAISER: I know, I know, I was so excited I got chills.
So-- GUEST: I knew that it had a little bit of writing... APPRAISER: Yeah.
GUEST: ...but I could never read it.
I didn't know what it said.
APPRAISER: It's-it's there.
It's-it's slightly obliterated, so it's going to be hard for me to show it, but that's, yeah.
GUEST: (laughs) Wow!
APPRAISER: So it would be Tiffany & Co. New York.
Intrinsically, we have not really valuable things.
We have a lapis lazuli, as you know, and that's a sugarloaf cabochon.
Sugarloaf cabochon is a really high cabochon that was really popular in the Art Deco period in the 1920s.
GUEST: Yeah.
APPRAISER: And on the side is chrysoprase, which is not jade.
GUEST: Oh, okay.
APPRAISER: So, chrysoprase was also used in Art Deco jewelry, and it was used, really, just as accent stones.
It's also set with some tiny rose-cut diamonds.
Do you have any idea on the value?
GUEST: I thought it was platinum.
APPRAISER: Yeah.
GUEST: And I thought the diamonds might be real, so I thought maybe a few thousand, but I don't... APPRAISER: Yeah, well, it's well worth that.
GUEST: Okay.
APPRAISER: Um, I would say $5,000 to $7,000 auction estimate.
GUEST: Wow, that's amazing!
APPRAISER: So for insurance it would be right around $8,000.
GUEST: (exhales) Wow.
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