Here is a fantastic and rare Antique KOHN 14k Yellow Gold handmade, assembled and finished opal and pearl brooch.

This brooch features a 4.62ct opal measuring 19.00mm x 13.00mm x 3.63mm. Opal displays a green/blue play of colour with slight orange spectral flashes, good polish, symmetry and proportions.

Surrounded by 22 x half drilled saltwater cultured pearls each measuring approx. 2.80mm (in diameter). Pearls having white body colour with slight rose overtones, medium nacre thickness, medium lustre, round with minimal surface blemishing.

$6,625.00 CAD appraised by local Vancouver appraiser Estela Pelegrin.

Brooch is in very good ready to wear condition. Purchase includes original appraisal and gift box.

For a FULL detailed description, please refer to the appraisal picture in this listing.

Brooch weight: 4.51 grams
Brooch Size: 24.20mm x 19.00mm (outside dimensions)
Metal Type: 14k Yellow Gold

Fair Retail Value: $6,625.00 CAD

 

About Henry KOHN - For over 100 years, Henry Kohn & Sons was a high-quality jewelry institution in the city of Hartford, Connecticut.

Henry Kohn was born in Bohemia, Austria, in 1839. He arrived on the shores of America in 1865. Henry settled in Hartford, Connecticut, and started his small jewelry business. Three years later, he moved his firm to Rockville, but returned to Hartford seven years later, in 1875, where he settled in for good.

Kohn's eponymous company was a retail and wholesale diamond and precious gemstone establishment that enjoyed much success.

An 1886 article from the Hartford Courant called Henry Kohn "an enterprising diamond merchant" who had "built up a thoroughly respectable and profitable business." The report further stated that Kohn "is everywhere recognized as a gentleman of superior business attainments and thoroughly affable ways and manners."