Visiting rubies at NY Antique Jewelry & Watch Show

[boerumbiddy]

Spent a few hours testing my eyes at the Metropolitan Pavilion on West 18th Street in Manhattan. (The show runs through Monday and one $20 admission ticket is good until then.) There are more than 100 booths full of delicious stuff, but I can proudly and sadly say that the only two rubies to which my eyes were drawn both turned out to be Burmese and AGL unheated.
One, from R.T. Jewelers of Philadelphia, was 2.69 carats in a fussy double-shank modern setting with parallel lines of emerald-cut or baguette diamonds all around. It seemed almost like a bargain at $70,000 after I saw the one I really liked, a larger and redder version of my own ring, 5-plus carats with two substantial trillion diamonds, $340,000.
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Here it is on the same finger as my own. Even in my bad phone shot, the difference in color and glow is obvious.

 

[boerumbiddy]

Is anyone else planning a visit?

 

[missy]

So sad I cannot go. My dh had that on his calendar for us to attend. But hopefully next year. Thanks for the pic!
Are you going back today? Have fun and please come back and post any more highlights.

 

[JewelFreak]

Ditto! If you go back, please take a pile of photos for us to drool over. That ruby is magnif -- who's gonna take it home?

--- Laurie

 

[boerumbiddy]

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Indeed I went back and here are some bad Iphone pictures, usually in comparison with my 1.97-ct stone. Things are not cheap.
First up is the 2.69-ct., $70,000 unheated Burmese sapphire in the odd setting. (The dealer, R & T Jewelers of Philadelphia, admitted today that it was plunked in temporarily because it fit while they looked for something better. I would like to take it and put it in the setting for the heated ruby below.) Someone looked at it but brought it back.

They also had a nicely colored large oval sapphire for $100,000:

Nicholas Harris had a large rubellite that just screamed rubellite. It was only $9,500.
And finally, something I could almost afford, a 2.56-carat heated ruby, nice color, for $5,350, and the best shot I have ever managed to take of my own unheated one, which cost just a little more last year!
I don't know why the picture of the Raymond Yard lovely from yesterday has disappeared, so here it is again:
I forgot to say that the optimistic dealer is Eric Originals & Antiques Ltd. of our own 47th Street!

 

[boerumbiddy]

BTW an outfit called Rothschild Trading Company showed mostly its certificates, only a handful of actual stones. They had a lot of old mine cut and old European cut diamonds and had a nice postcard ad showing a mixed-stone brooch missing a couple of diamonds with the headline "Missing Something?"

 

[missy]

Thanks for posting your pictures! I like that large oval sapphire though I cannot tell much about the quality from the distance. Pretty but a bit out of my budget lol.

 

[chrono]

That first ruby is something (as is the pricetag).

 

[boerumbiddy]

A jewelry blogger I enjoy was actually working at a friend's booth for this show. Here are her finds, some very colorful indeed:
http://www.jewelsdujour.com/2014/07/behind-the-booth-at-ny-antique-jewelry-watch-show/
I especially like the Belperron emerald-encrusted compact, and I am ordinarily not a big emerald fan.