Live Auction 20953Magnificent Jewels
CARTIER ART DECO EMERALD AND DIAMOND BROOCH
Lot 32 Property from the Collection of May Bourne Strassburger

CARTIER ART DECO EMERALD AND DIAMOND BROOCH

Closed6 December 2022

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USD 63,000

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CARTIER ART DECO EMERALD AND DIAMOND BROOCH
Carved emerald beads, old, baguette, bullet and half moon-shaped diamonds, platinum, circa 1925, signed Cartier, numbered, red Cartier case

Size/Dimensions: 4.1 x 3.3 cm (1 3/8 x 1 3/8 in)
Gross Weight: 13.4 grams

Specialist note

May Bourne Strassburger (1883 – 1959) was the eldest daughter of Frederick G. Bourne, the fifth president of the Singer Manufacturing Company. She married Ralph Beaver Strassburger, one of the founders of the Pennsylvania German Society in 1911. Together the Strassburgers traveled between their farm in Gwynedd Valley, Pennsylvania and their homes in Paris, Deauville and Chantilly, France as well as Palm Beach, Florida. They were known as avid antique collectors and breeders of thoroughbred racehorses.