Jewellery Collection (page 6)

Costume / Ancient Assyria
ANCIENT ASSYRIA The clothing worn by a Priest and an Ancient Assyrian King. Date: B.C

Ancient Egyptian objects
Selection of Ancient Egyptian every day items. Date: Ancient Egypt

Indian general store, Tabora, Tanzania, East Africa
Indian general store, Tabora, German East Africa (now Tanzania). The woman on the left is operating a Singer sewing machine. Date: circa 1910

Excavated objects at Palace of the Youssoupof, Moscow
Delegates of the Soviet government carrying out an inventory on the collection of precious objects unearthed at the Palace of the Youssoupof (which housed a military history museum)

French art nouveau hair combs in enamel, shell, and gold by Paul Follot and Henri Vever.. Color plate from Charles Holmes Modern Design in Jewellery and Fans, published by the Studio 1902

Tribal Dancer - Bushmen Girl ready to dance in Manghetti dunes. Namibia - Africa

Mabel Grey, Victorian courtesan
Mabel Grey (real name Annie King), Victorian courtesan in London, late 1860s to early 1870s. Date: circa late 1860s

Marwari Caste girls, India
Marwari (or Marwadi) Caste girls, originating from Rajasthan, India. Date: circa 1890s

Society ladies at the Jewels of Empire Ball
Three of the ladies at the Jewels of Empire Ball, held in June 1935 at the Grosvenor House Hotel. Over 3 million pounds worth of jewels were worn in the shape of bracelets, tiaras, necklaces

The royal regalia of the Romanoffs
The Russian state jewels acquired by an English syndicate and sold at Christies Auction Rooms. The regalia shown are: the nuptial crown, a magnificent brooch, a green jasper snuff box

Antankarana woman from Mahajanga, Madagascar
An Antankarana woman from Mahajanga (Majunga) a city and a district on the northwest coast of Madagascar. Note the distinctive balled hairstyle, nose jewellery and beaded necklaces

East African Woman - Braided Hair, shell necklace
East African Woman with Braided Hair, shell necklace and extensive additional face and neck jewellery. Date: circa 1930s

Lebanon - Married Druze Woman with Tantour hat
The traditional vertigious tantour hat of a married Druze (a monotheistic religious community) woman of Lebanon (sadly not an example of the popular trend to replicate the landscape of late 19th)

Elegant woman of the Kabyle People - Algeria
Elegant woman of the Kabyle People - Berbers from North Eastern Algeria - estimate population today approx. 5 million individuals. Date: circa 1908

A Nubian Girl - Egypt Date: circa 1910s

Tsaritsa Maria Feodorovna - wife of Tsar Alexander III
Tsaritsa Maria Feodorovna (1847-1928), formerly Princess Dagmar of Denmark, wife of Tsar Alexander III and sister of Queen Alexandra of Great Britain

Crown for Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother), Coronation 19
The crown for Queen Elizabeth, consort of King George VI, to wear at the 1937 Coronation based on a Victorian circlet and including the Koh-i-Noor diamond

Royal wedding 1863 - Wedding gifts to the bride
Wedding gifts to Princess Alexandra of Denmark(1844-1925)on her marriage to Edward VII, at that time the Prince of Wales.The jewellery was crafted by Garrard

Royal Wedding 1923 - wedding presents
King George V and Queen Marys gifts to the Duke and Duchess of York on the occasion of their marriage on 26 April 1923. They include a necklace from Queen Alexandra

Coronation 1953, Illustrated London News front cover
Secondary front cover of the ILN featuring a photograph of the soon-to-be crowned Queen Elizabeth II surrounded by crowns, orb, sceptre and other ceremonial paraphenalia. Date: 1953

Queen Elizabeth II and Duke of Edinburgh - Paris, 1948
Queen Elizabeth II, when Princess Elizabeth, pictured with her husband, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh at the Paris Opera House in May 1948. Date: 1948

Music sheet cover for The Alexandra March

Bensons jewellery advert featuring Joanna Lumley
Advertisement in the very first issue of London Life magazine, a short-lived magazine charting the social and cultural happenings of swinging sixties London

Ouled Nail, Algeria - Southern Algerian Berber Woman
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

Dinka Man - Sudan, Africa
A fine portrait photograph of a man of the Dinka Tribe, Sudan, showing ritual scarification on the chest, headdress, neck beads and wound torc

Advert for Hunt & Roskell jewellery 1937 Advert for Hunt & Roskell jewellery 1937
Advertisement for Hunt & Roskell jewellery. Fashionable designs with white and yellow gold and diamonds. Date: 1937

Advert for J. C Vickery personalised jewellery 1912
Personalised disc shape pendants arranged with any border in diamonds, pearls or gold with a letter in the centre and a interchangable enamel backpiece. 1912

Tecla pearls counterparts for the natural 1913
Women models wearing the Tecla pearl jewellery that made a more unified necklace, and also cheaper to the pocket. Date: 1913

The Aga Khan and the Begum Aga Khan. Andr饠 Jos鰨 ine Carron married Aga Khan III in December 1929 and together they had one son, Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan. The couple divorced in 1943

Burkina Faso (Upper Volta) Toucouleurs (Fula) Woman
A Fula (Toucouleurs) Woman from Bukina Faso (Upper Volta), a landlocked country in West Africa. Date: circa 1920s

Young Parisian Lady, c. 1875, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919). French painter. Young Parisian Lady, c. 1875. National Museum. Stockholm. Sweden

The Crown of the Romanoffs
Photograph of the Romanov crown, 1927. Part of a sale of Russian state jewels sold at auction at Christie Manson and Woods auction house that year. 1927

Portrait of Livia Colonna, 1570-1572, by Paolo Veronese
Paolo Veronese (1528-1588). Italian painter. Portrait of Livia Colonna, 1570-1572. Prado Museum. Madrid. Spain

Arab Girl - Cairo, Egypt - wearing coins and medallions on a beaded string around her hairline and neck. Date: circa 1907

Advert for James Aitchison brooches 1883
James Aitchison, manufacturer of National Scottish Jewellery. From birds shot in the Highlands of Scotland, mounted as brooches in gold and silver, and set with Scotch Cairngorms stones. 1883

Ancient Egyptian pectoral from Tutankhamuns tomb
A pectoral from the tomb of Pharao Tutankhamun (reigned 13321323 BC). It is composed of a winged scarab, flanked by the goddesses Nephtys (left) and Isis (right) kneeling. Date: circa 1925

Lalla Rookh, long narrative poem by Thomas Moore
She found that the short dream of happiness was over -- the title character of Lalla Rookh, a long narrative poem by Thomas Moore, first published in 1817. 19th century

Advert for Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Edwardian jewellery
Selection of novelty jewellery inspired my nature. Date: 1901

Association of Diamond Merchants Jewellers 1893
An assortment of elegant and inexpensive novelty Victorian jewellery. Special old gold and silver and precious stones taken in exchange or bought for cash

German imperial crown, Sceptres, Orb and Bohemian Crown
1. The German imperial crown. 2. & 3. & 6. Sceptres. 4. Imperial Orb (with details). 5. Hungarian Sceptre (with details). 7. Bohemian Royal Crown. Date: circa 12th century

Sudan - Sudanese Woman performing the Wind Dance. Date: circa 1920s

London Trade Card - John Flude, Pawnbroker and Silversmith, 2 Gracechurch Street. 18th century

Jane Seymour, third wife of King Henry VIII
Jane Seymour (1509-1537), third wife of King Henry VIII, mother of King Edward VI. 16th century

Elena of Montenegro, Queen of Italy (1873-1952). (2/2) Date: circa 1904

African girl in native dress, wearing metal and bone jewellery, and with her skin heavily oiled. Date: circa 1920

Advert for Lefebvre Fils Aine, art nouveau jewellery 1910
Art nouveau jewellery by Lefebvre Fils Aine. 1910

A Fula Woman - Senegal, West Africa - displaying distinctive traditional ornamental headwear and hairstyle, large single-bead necklace and hooped earrings

Roman rings. Gold, malachite and emerald. From Empuries. Cat
Roman rings. The small (gold and malachite). The big (gold and emerald). From Empuries. Catalonia. Episcopal Museum. Vic. Spain

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