Ultra High Jewelry by Cartier

Platinum brooch with one opal, one ribbed emerald, brilliants, emerald eyes.

Platinum, one 6.89-carat blue tourmaline, cabochon-cut yellow sapphires, brilliant-cut diamonds.

Cartier Royal ring, platinum, one 20.02 carat emerald-cut pink spinel, onyx, brilliant-cut diamonds.

Butterfly Brooch – white gold, yellow gold, 42.77-carat pear-shaped yellow sapphire, yellow sapphires, colored diamonds, black lacquer, brilliants. Bird of Paradise Brooch with 20.22-carat pink sapphire and six padparadscha sapphires.

Bracelet with 77.3-carat carved emerald, emerald beads and diamonds.

Sortilège de Cartier bracelet in platinum with a single rubellite, cultured pearls, onyx and brilliant cut diamonds.

Cartier Urban ring - Platinum, 10.77-carat square-shaped emerald, baguette-cut diamonds, onyx, brilliants.

Platinum, 10.04-carat padparadscha sapphire, black lacquer, brilliants.

Platinum, emeralds, sapphires, onyx, diamonds

White gold, brown, orange and yellow diamonds, onyx, yellow-orange diamond eyes, brilliants.

Necklace/brooch - Platinum, 91.34-carat emerald drop from Colombia, pear-shaped diamond, brilliants.

Secrets et Merveilles ring, platinum, 1 cushion-cut pink sapphire, 2 fine pearls and brilliant-cut diamonds

Platinum, cabochon-cut 36.74-carat ruby, pear-shaped rose-cut diamond, brilliants.

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Penn Museum Exhibits Gold from Ancient Panama

For more than a thousand years, a cemetery on the banks of the Rio Grande Coclé in Panama lay undisturbed, escaping the attention of gold seekers and looters. The river flooded in 1927, scattering beads of gold along its banks. In 1940, a Penn Museum team led by archaeologist J. Alden Mason excavated at the cemetery, unearthing spectacular finds.

Human effigy pendant of gold, copper, silver alloy, Sitio Conte, Panama, ca. 700-900CE.

Large golden plaques and pendants with animal-human motifs were found, precious and semi-precious stone, ivory, and animal bone ornaments, and literally tons of detail-rich painted ceramics. It was extraordinary evidence of a sophisticated Precolumbian people, the Coclé, who lived, died, and painstakingly buried their dead long ago.

Long overshadowed by research on other indigenous Central and South American peoples, the Coclé, who lived from about 700 to 900 CE, remain mysterious.

Emerald Pendant, Sitio Conte, Panama, ca. 700-900 CE.

Beneath the Surface: Life, Death, and Gold in Ancient Panama opens February 7, 2015 at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia with visitors encouraged to explore the history, archaeological evidence, and new research perspectives of the Coclé.

http://www.penn.museum/

Mussolini's girlfriend's Alfa Romeo

Italian dictator Benito Mussolini gave an Alfa Romeo to his mistress Clara Petacci as a gift. The pair met at Lake Como and planned to seek asylum in Switzerland. A motorcade they were in, which included a retreating German anti-aircraft unit, was stopped at a roadblock near the town of Dongo on April 27, 1945. The fascist leader and his mistress were both identified before being shot dead and their bodies hung upside down at a petrol station. Petacci’s Alfa Romeo was confiscated and eventually acquired by an American Army Air Corps officer, Major Charles Pettit.

The vehicle was given a new lease of life in 1970 when it was purchased by Ron Keno of Mohawk, New York for $300. The antiques dealer was eventually put in touch with Franz Spogler, a former Nazi whose job it had been to drive Petacci and Mussolini towards the end of the war. Correspondence between the pair convinced Keno that he had ownership of the historic car.

In late 1978 the partially restored Alfa Romeo was sold by Keno to collector Donnie Morton, of Connecticut, who ultimately passed it to the Imperial Palace Auto Collection. Staff restored and displayed it as part of their holdings of rare automobiles for the next two decades, until it was sold to another long-term owner in 1999.

A no-expenses-spared restoration with Garage Bonfanti followed. The work, which went so far as to recreate replicas of the original dashboard switchgear, reportedly took two years and cost a staggering €500,000 (roughly $625,000 in 2004).

The 1939 Alfa Romeo 6C2500 achieved a high bid of €1.8 million ($2.1 million), but failed to meet its reserve price.