Jewelry

[chi5925]

Joan's jewelry, furniture, objets de vitrine are being auctioned off by Christie's in New York in June.

I pre-ordered the catalog and it arrived today.

O.....M......G!!!

Her taste was exquisite in jewelry.  I just breezed thru it and the catalog is filled with gorgeous antique jewelry, antique furniture, and lots of antique objets de vitrine.

The furniture is not my taste but Joan sure had an appreciation for superb antiques.

The jewelry is just F-A-B-U-L-O-U-S!!!

I'm saving the page-by-page view for my bedtime reading tonight.

Ay caramba!! (sorry that it's sideways -- I did take the photo correctly)

[DoneTryin]

Have fun with that!

I recall so many times on QVC when Joan would introduce a reproduction of one of her items & she'd have the original piece to show.  She did have some beautiful things.

[sunshine45]

i would love to have a hard copy of the catalog.

how can i go about getting one?

[chi5925]

go to christies.com and scroll down just a bit to where it says "Auctions" and you'll see a photo of Joan.

Click on that and there should be a place where you can "order catalog".

I pre-ordered this a couple of months ago. 

Good luck!

[motherinlaw]

I see no place to order a catalog......was there a charge to order?

[KLevineFan]

Top of page had Buying choice, then Catalogues, then you have to select US $ category ... it is $50, cheaper than ,$75 I spent for Ringo's!  Most sites have virtual .PDF versions but not taking the time go search for now.  The catalogs are all color and expensive to make.

[chi5925]

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@KathyLFan wrote:

Top of page had Buying choice, then Catalogues, then you have to select US $ category ... it is $50, cheaper than ,$75 I spent for Ringo's!  Most sites have virtual .PDF versions but not taking the time go search for now.  The catalogs are all color and expensive to make.

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Thanks KathyLFan for clarifying the catalog purchase process.

Although you can see the items on their website that will be auctioned from Joan's estate, I wanted to have a hard copy catalog for my library. 

I also have the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis auction catalog which is more like a book.  My last catalog purchase (before Joan's) was Princess Margaret's estate.  Christie's handled that also and the "catalog" consisted of 3 books -- 1 for jewelry; 1 for furniture; and 1 for other objects. 

[Reba055]

@chi5925 Thanks so much. I never paid attention to ordering catalogs. I would have loved Elizabeth Taylor's. 

[chi5925]

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@Reba055 wrote:

@chi5925 Thanks so much. I never paid attention to ordering catalogs. I would have loved Elizabeth Taylor's. 

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Yes, I would have loved Taylor's catalogs.  Before the auction was held, I actually went on the site to order the catalogs but, at that time, they were $60 each.  I believe there were 6 of them....1 for jewelry, 1 for clohes, 1, for furnishings, and I forgot what the rest were.

Gosh, now those catalogs are going for $1,000 for the set and around $300 individually.  Oh well....

I do have her book "Jewelry" which shows a large collection of her more interesting pieces and she provide sthe provenance for each. 

[KLevineFan]

Another post said there are some Bob Mackie clothes for sale ... can you post photos of them?  I also had never heardBob say he did dresses for Joan.