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Madison Rose Whitman

Specialist, Jewelry, NY

Tel: +19172061664

[email protected]

A RUBY AND DIAMOND BROOCH, CIRCA 1950

Designed as a flower, with round and oval mixed-cut rubies, further enhanced by round brilliant and baguette-cut diamonds; approximate total diamond weight: 14.85 carats; mounted in 18k gold and platinum; length: 3 in.

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Accompanied by AGL report no. 1122139, date 13 April 2022, stating that of the seventeen rubies: twelve are of Burma (Myanmar) origin and two are of Thailand origin with no gemological evidence of heat treatment. The remaining rubies are synthetic.

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Madison Rose Whitman

A RUBY AND DIAMOND BROOCH, CIRCA 1950

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