Ludlow White-Gold Diamond Earrings ES00486.

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Tiffany Silver Necklace NQ00066.

In imaculate condition.

Please return to Tiffany & Co.

Subsequently, one of the world’s most beloved and iconic American jewellery brands, Tiffany & Co. was founded in New York in 1837 by Charles Lewis Tiffany. Also known for its timeless diamond engagement rings and opulent annual Blue Book high jewellery collections, Tiffany & Co. is synonymous with style, elegance and innovation.

Hence, this is a genuine iconic Tiffany Silver Necklace NQ00066 inspired by the iconic keyring first introduced by Tiffany in 1969. Indeed, the Return to the Tiffany collection is a classic that Tiffany has reintroduced. This necklace’s simple oval curved tag design makes it a bold statement piece that will make a great addition to your collection.

Consequently, as one would expect from an iconic luxury brand, Tiffany & Co. has rigorous standards for the incredibly high-quality materials used to craft its jewellery pieces, such as this Tiffany Silver Necklace NQ0006. Therefore, Tiffany & Co. will always hallmark its pieces sold in the UK to indicate the metal purity, as silver items over 7.78 grams sold in the UK can not be described as silver if they do not have a hallmark.

Which items made of precious metal need to be hallmarked
If a precious metal item weighs less than a certain amount, it is not compulsory to apply a hallmark. So, the minimum weight thresholds are:-

gold 1 gram
Silver 7.78 grams
platinum 0.5 gram
palladium 1 gram

What is a Hallmark?

A full UK hallmark tells you:-

Who submitted the article for hallmarking (sponsor’s mark)
What the final metal is made of (Metal fineness mark)
Where the article was hallmarked (Assay office town mark)
When the article was hallmarked (date letter) is optional

The Maker’s mark for Tiffany & co is:- T & CO .

Pre-Loved Tiffany Silver Necklace NQ00066.

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Most people had never heard of black diamonds and those that did had little interest in them, until the late 20th century, when designers started utilising them and mixing them with contrasting white diamonds in pav’e settings such as these Black Diamond Earring Studs.

As for black diamond engagement rings, I think they became very popular when Mr Big gave Carrie a five carat black diamond engagement ring at the end of the 2010 movie Sex in the City2.
Also in 2010 Deadmau5 and tattoo artist Katherine Von Drachenberg, known as Kat Von D, flaunted there black diamond engagement rings. Not forgetting Rob Patterson also gave Carmen Electra a gorgeous black diamond ring.

Famous Black Diamonds.

Sergio is the largest carbonado rough black diamond ever found. Apparently it weighs 3167 carats it was found in Bahia Brazil in 1895. It is believed to be a meteorite from outer space.

The second largest is thought to be the spirit of de Grisogono and weights 312.24 carats. this stone is part of a famous black diamond collection of the Swiss jeweller Fawaz Gruosi . This stone was cut from a 587 carat rough stone.

It is said that Fawaz Gruosi has one of the best collections of black diamonds in the world, he bought another black diamond in 1998 weighing 300.12 carats of rough, it is said to have taken three years to cut and ended up as a 115.34 carat heart shape and was known as the Gruosi diamond. This heart shaped stone is the centrepiece of a necklace crafted in white gold with a further 58.7carats of white diamonds and 14.1 carats of lively, vivid green tsavorite garnets.

Normally diamond cutting does not take three years, however the Gruosi diamond like many other black diamonds, have an unequal amount of soft and hard areas.
As such the Gruosi diamond had to be handled with a steady hand and much patience.

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Kendal Black Pearl Stud-Earrings ES00048

Crafted in 9ct white gold, single round black cultured pearls with a crescent of sparkling white diamonds.

A unusual design that you will love to wear.

These cultured pearls, sometimes referred to as black pearls, actually have a wide colour range. They might be grey, black or brown, and they can have blue, green, purple or pink overtones.

Kendal Black Pearl Stud-Earrings ES00048.

The difference between cultured pearls and natural pearls.

Natural Pearls.

With a natural pearl when an irritant gets inside the shell of the mollusc without any help of human intervention, it is called natural. These natural pearls are very rare and found mostly in antique jewellery, as diving for natural pearls in open water is a dangerous profession and is almost obsolete now days, having said that pearl diving in Ohio & Tennessee rivers in America still exists today, mainly in my opinion as a gimmick to help boost the tourist industry.

Cultured pearls.

With cultured pearls such as these Kendal Black Pearl Stud-Earrings are virtually the same in as much as they are still made by the mollusc but with human intervention a skilled technician takes a mantle tissue from another mollusc of the same species and inserts it with a shell bead as the irritant then tissue grows around it secreting nacre onto the bead which eventually forms a pearl. It take at least six months for a pearl to form but most pearls are cultivated for at least a year for it to grow to a useable size, the longer a pearl is cultivated, the better chance of harvesting a larger and better quality pearl in general the longer the cultivation the bigger the pearl, which is why larger pearls are more expensive.

Some people say oh cultured pearls are not as good as Natural pearls, but as in people there are good and bad, in both natural and cultured pearls. In my opinion the thing to look for that generally makes a nice pearl of any sort, is a nice round shape without or with as little blemishes as possible with a nice smooth lustre. In most cases the more blemishes and the more misshapen a pearl the cheaper it should be.

Kendal Black Pearl Stud-Earrings ES00048.

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