Bonus post! Happy 2013!
This necklace is like visual Xanax. I look at it and I feel a happy, floaty assurance that everything is okay.
![A Belle Epoque diamond necklace. Via Diamonds in the Library.](https://i0.wp.com/diamondsinthelibrary.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/A-Belle-Epoque-diamond-necklace.-Via-Diamonds-in-the-Library..jpg?resize=640%2C473)
Made in 1910, this lovely, lovely thing is really more of a choker – it measures a mere 13.5 inches. It’s designed as a pierced old mine-cut diamond scalloped band, bezel-set along the center with a graduated series of old mine-cut diamonds, mounted in platinum. I’m not sure what I’d wear it with, but I know for damn sure I’d make it work somehow if I ever had the chance.
![Detail of a lovely Belle Epoque diamond necklace. Via Diamonds in the Library.](https://i0.wp.com/diamondsinthelibrary.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Detail-of-a-lovely-Belle-Epoque-diamond-necklace.-Via-Diamonds-in-the-Library..jpg?resize=640%2C351)
This necklace was sold as part of Christie’s October 21, 2009 Rare Jewels sale. All images and info are thanks to Christie’s.
You wrote: ” I’m not sure what I’d wear it with, but I know for damn sure I’d make it work somehow if I ever had the chance.”
I have a Victorian Bohemian Garnet necklace c. 1880’s that makes me feel like a queen when I wear it. I wear it with jeans and tees when I’m scrubbing catboxes or other nasty jobs, because you need something nice when doing nasty work!
That sounds wonderful!