Sale 1241
Geneva
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20 - 21 February 1998
Price realised
CHF 6,900
Estimate
AN ART DECO AMETHYST AND BAROQUE PEARL BROOCH, BY SUZANNE BELPERRON Designed as a tiered amethyst navette-shaped panel set to the centre with a brownish baroque pearl, circa 1925, with French assay marks By Suzanne Belperron
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