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About 700 pieces of ornate costume jewelry made by Hollywood
costume jeweler Eugene Joseff will be exhibited in Ireland's
Newbridge Silverware Museum of Style Icons from March until May
before going under the hammer in November at Julien's Auctions
in Los Angeles.
"Buying a piece of this isn't like buying a diamond necklace
from Cartier, you're actually owning a piece of Hollywood
memorabilia," said Isabel Yeo, Julien's Auctions' jewelry
specialist.
The auction house has not yet set estimates for the jewelry.
Costume jewelry pieces do not tend to contain precious stones
and metals.
Joseff made custom pieces of jewelry for major film studios
during the 1930s and 1940s, the early years of Hollywood's
Golden Age of cinema, lending the items so that he retained the
majority of his collection. The jeweler died in a plane crash in
the late 1940s and the pieces of his collection have not been
offered for auction until now.
Yeo said Joseff developed a special method of jewelry-making
that involved plating metals to give it a softer glare under
studio lighting, a secret formula that has been kept within his
family.
Highlights from the auction include Clark Gable's gold engraved
cigar case from 1939's "Gone With The Wind" and a costume pearl
and blue stone necklace worn by Bette Davis in 1955's "The
Virgin Queen."
(Reporting by Rollo Ross for Reuters TV; Editing by Peter
Cooney)
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