Art Deco Diamond Platinum Lorgnette turquoise matrix Stamped 800 (silver)

Stamped 800 (silver)

bent on sending the ship and every sailor on board to the bottom

made in the wake of the Egyptomania that washed over Europe and America after the discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb by Howard Carter in 1922

but for whom and why 8th Oct '02 we'll probably never know

Fantastic Art Deco period black opal pendant dating from the 1930s

Art Deco Diamond Platinum Lorgnette turquoise matrix Stamped 800 (silver)DATE: Art Deco, c. 1920 A weird and wonderful thing, an antique platinum lorgnette, set with old cut diamonds. A lorgnette is quite simply, a pair of spectacles mounted on a handle. They were a common sight at the theatre and the opera, and the name derives from the French word "lorgner" to ogle. The handle is topped with a spring loaded pair of glasses (aka lorgnette). The styling is typically Deco, with geometric lines topped with foliate motifs set