Jewellery Collection (page 8)

British art nouveau hair combs by BJ Barrie
British art nouveau hair combs by B.J. Barrie, David Veazey and Kate Allen.. Color plate from Charles Holmes Modern Design in Jewellery and Fans, published by the Studio 1902

Arthur A. Everts, Jewellers, Dallas, Texas, USA
Interior view of Arthur A. Everts Co, Jewellers of Dallas, Texas, USA. Date: circa 1910

Tribal Dancer - Bushmen Girl dancing in Manghetti dunes. Namibia - Africa

Himba Girl - wearing head gear and jewellery. Kaokoland - Namibia - Africa

Princess May of Teck, (later Queen Mary), (1867 1953). Photograph taken in 1893, when she was Duchess of York. Date: 1893

Good luck charms from J. C. Vickery, WW1
Advertisement displaying three types of lucky charm or good luck mascots available from J. C. Vickery of Regent Street, London, jewellers to Their Majesties

Cartier advertisement, 1911
Advertisement for the jeweller s, Cartier, showing their premises on fashionable New Bond Street in 1911. Date: 1911

Bhutanese woman, Bhutan, South Asia. Date: circa 1890s

Group of Nautch women, India. Date: circa 1890s

Advertisement for Birts & Son, Woolwich, SE London
Advertisement for Birts & Son, Powis Street, Woolwich, south east London, offering watches, clocks, medals, trophies and jewellery. Date: circa 1905

Advert for Wilson & Gill jewellery 1913
Elegant womens jewellery. Date: 1913

Advert for Ciro jewellery 1930
An advert for Ciro Pearls Ltd located at Regent Street, Old Bond Street and Cheapside in London. The advertised jewellery features Ciro diamonds, with emeralds, rubies and sappires. 1930

Lady from Nepal in traditional costume with a vast array of bangles, necklaces, rings and other adornments. Date: circa 1910s

South Africa - Queen of the Pondos
South Africa - The Queen of the Pondos. The Pondo or Phondo are a Xhosa speaking ethnic group who have given their name to Pondoland

A Tunisian Arab Woman spinning wool using a hand spindle Date: 1908

Princess Alice of Albany, Countess of Athlone, Princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Granddaughter of Queen Victoria, wife of Prince Alexander of Teck (1883-1981). Date: circa 1905

Girl of the Ouled Nails - Algeria - North Africa
Woman from the tribe of Ouled Nail in Southern Algeria in their very distinctive and elaborate traditional clothing. The women earned money through belly dancing

Dinka Man with elaborate head and neck decoration - Sudan, Africa. Date: circa 1910s

Syrian Jewish Woman. Date: circa 1907

Design for Textile with colourful feathers. Gouache on copy paper. Silver Studio. 1926

Sapphire Buddha pin less then two centimetres tall. Sapphie is so hard it would have needed something as hard or harder to shape it, most probably another Sapphire

Baltic amber ring
A ring containing a long-legged fly Diptera: Brachycera: Dolichopodidae. Amber specimen dates from the Upper Eocene about 35 million years old

Sapphire turban button
A rose-cut facetted deep-blue sapphire mounted in a button of quartz, inlaid with gold, rubies & emeralds. No 198 in the collection of Sir Hans Sloane

Karachi Frog
Watercolour by Olivia Fanny Tonge 1858-1949. 180 x 260mm. From one of sixteen sketchbooks presented to the Museum in 1952

Oyster shell with pearl
Oyster is a name given to a group of molluscs which can be found on sea beds, often in coastal waters. The pearl, a smooth spherical object can form inside its shell

A Mapuche Woman
Mapuche Woman chief or leader (Cacique). The Mapuche are a group of indigenous inhabitants of south-central Chile and southwestern Argentina

RAF Per Ardua Ad Astra badge and brooch
A Royal Air Force badge bearing the Latin motto Per Ardua Ad Astra (Through Adversity to the Stars), turned into a brooch by the addition of a bow and pin. Date: circa 1940s

Algeria - Biskra - Ouled Nails Women
Algeria - Biskra. Women from the tribe of Ouled Nail in Southern Algeria in their very distinctive and elaborate traditional clothing. The women earned money through belly dancing

Syrian Bedouin Women - Costume series (3 / 3)
Costume styles of five Bedouin women. Only one is veiled, another plays the tamborine and another wears expansive golden circle jewellery as a headdress. Date: circa 1910s

Pola Negri as the Spanish Dancer
POLA NEGRI (Barbara Apolonia Chalupiec) in 1924, Polish film actress who specialised in femme fatale roles in silent films

Adelaide Hall (1901-1993), American-born British jazz singer and entertainer, seen here in later life. She began her career on Broadway, New York, in 1921, and made her name in 1928

Character from Il Trovatore -- Azucena
Depiction of the character Azucena from Verdis grand opera Il Trovatore (The Troubador), first performed in Rome in 1853. The gipsy woman Azucena (a mezzo-soprano or contralto role)

Croatia - Traditional National Costume (1 / 8)
Croatia - Traditional National Costume (1/8) - Young woman standing on the seashore

Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia (1872-1918), formerly Princess Alix of Hesse, married Tsar Nicholas II in 1894 shortly before his accession to the throne

Women of the Burmese Kayan Lahwi tribe
Four women and a young baby from the Kayan Lahwi tribe, a group of the Karenni people of Burma (Myanmar). Women of the various Kayan tribes identify themselves by their different form of dress

Moorish Woman - Algeria
A stunning postcard depiction of a Moorish woman - leaning against a doorway in a fabulous floral print dress with headdress Date: 1908

Woman of the Berber Algerian tribe of Ouled Nail
Woman from the tribe of Ouled Nail in Southern Algeria in their very distinctive and elaborate traditional clothing. The women earned money through belly dancing

Affluent Algerian Bedouin Woman
An affluent Algerian Bedouin Woman, her jewellery a brash show of visible wealth

Tunisia - A transvestite arab dancer reclining
A transvestite - in the garb of an arab dancer, reclining on a fur pelt and plump cushions, adorned with vast quantities of jewellery and patterned clothing

Sudanese Woman with Cowry Shell decoration
Sudanese Woman, wearing a fantastic decorated nosering, headdress made out of small white cowrie (cowry) shells and topped with large feathers. Her dress is also edged with small shells and beads

Nancy Leeds
Princess Anastasia of Greece, formerly Mrs W.B. Leeds, born Nonnie May Stewart. Nancy came from a wealthy family and had previously married well twice before

Essex ring auctioned at Christie s
Two views of the famous Essex ring which Queen Elizabeth I is said to have given to the Earl of Essex, and which might have saved his life if it had been returned in time

Namaltoyan Girl - Apayao - Philippines
Namaltoyan Girl - Apayao - Mountain Province, Philippines. Apayao is a landlocked province of the Philippines in the Cordillera Administrative Region in Luzon

Elderly Berber Women, Algeria
Berber Golden Oldies - A group of elderly Algerian Berber Women, heavily wrapped up against the elements, but still displaying traditional costume and jewellery including large hooped earrings

Lady with Jewellery 1927
An elegant lady shows off her jewellery: earrings, necklace, rings and bracelets

Young woman in fancy dress, Ealing, West London
Young woman (Lucy Auerbach, age 16) in fancy dress, with a British flag, in her garden at Ealing, West London. 1906

The Great Balas or Black Princes Ruby, referring to a gem in the British crown jewels, dating back to the 14th century. 19th century

Saint Bernard dog with a pile of jewellery
Unusual Friends - Saint Bernard dog with a pile of jewellery. 1950s

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