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ANTIQUES, DIAMONDS & ESTATE JEWELRY AUCTION Sunday Jan 24, 2010 at 1 pm

Names like these will be called out by auctioneer Bruce Kodner this coming Sunday, so you will want to attend and get an unbelievable buy...
DAVID YURMAN, JOHN HARDY, ERTE,  CARTIER, ROLEX, LALIQUE, NETSUKE, REMINGTON, ROYAL COPENHAGEN, ROYAL DOULTON, HUMMEL, LLADRO, HEREND, ROTHSCHILD, DRESEN, TIFFANY, STEUBEN.

CATERED LUNCH SERVED

Also auctioning finest collection

of SILK and ORIENTAL RUGS

in all sizes!  GORGEOUS! 

Natural pearls are a product of nature and differ from 
cultured pearls,which are a product of nature 
helped along by science. A nucleus is implanted 
into the mollusk to stimulate nacre production and 
nacrebuilds up layer by layer ultimately 
creating the pearl.  Luster is the glow that 
emanates from within the pearl as a result 
of light reflection. The higher the pearls 
reflective qualities, the more intense the luster.  

JOIN US on Sunday, January 17, 2010.... many beautiful items for sale... Asprey, Hermes, Erte, Kwiat, Icart, Wallace Grande Baroque Sterling Flatware, Cartier Jewelry, Yurman and more....

SNAKE BRACELETS

Serpents such as the snake have been symbols through eternity of fertility, immortality, eternal love, wisdom and much more.  At the Bruce Kodner Gallery Auction today,  two exquisite reptile bangles will be sold.  One is a Victorian 22kt yellow gold 3 ct diamond snake bangle and the other is a 1970’s 18 kt yellow gold diamond and enamel snake bangle which appears menacing. The serpent looks on the alert, head raised, tongue out, and like it is hissing. 

Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs are pictured wearing sacred serpent pendants.  Aesculapius, the God of Medicine in ancient Greece, had a household snake wrapped around his staff, and even today that remains as the symbol of the medical profession.  Ancient Greeks and Romans revered the snake as a guardian spirit and symbol of wisdom.

Queen Victoria liked snakes and felt they were emblems of eternal love.  Her betrothal ring was an emerald-set serpent with its tail in its mouth.  The circular cold represented eternity and everlasting love.  She made snake jewelry fashionable in the 1890s, on rings, bracelets and necklaces.  From 1910 through 1930, Cartier’s sketchbooks pictured drawings of snake rings and bracelets and snake items are still popular at Cartier.  Lalique, the French glass and jewelry designer (1860-1945) was obsessed with snake and insect motifs and made such jewelry for Sarah Bernhardt.

KODNERS AUCTION 1-10-2010: Diamonds, Gold, Silver, Mouse Jewelry Collection. Judith Leiber, High End Watches