(15 Apr 2013)
AP Television
New York - April 12, 2013
1. Close-up emerald and diamond brooch, formerly from the Estate of Sarah Cantine Shrady Gould being prepared for display
2. Mid jewellery on display
3. Rack focus of diamond, onyx and emerald panther brooch, made by Cartier in Paris, with an estimated sale value between $150,000-250,000
4. Close-up pear-shaped diamond of nearly 75 carats on spinner for display, with an estimated value between nine and 12 million dollars
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lisa Hubbard, Chairman, North & South America, Sotheby's International Jewellery Division:
"If you think 74 carats is too large, you just have to spend a little time with it and find it actually can be made quite wearable."
6. Close-up pear-shaped white diamond
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lisa Hubbard, Chairman, North & South America, Sotheby's International Jewellery Division:
"The estimate this time, which is actually quite conservative in this current market, is between nine and twelve million (US) dollars, so when you look ... it is not only something wonderful to wear but there is a certain investment quality to it."
8. Wide, Sotheby's showroom
9. Close-up sign
10. Close-up white pear-shaped diamond in blue box
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lisa Hubbard, Chairman, North & South America, Sotheby's International Jewellery Division:
"When you think of the millions of carats of diamonds that come out of the ground, to have a diamond that is this size, this colour, this pure is a rare occurrence in nature."
12. Various of jewellery in display case
13. Mid, Hubbard walking through showroom
14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lisa Hubbard, Chairman, North & South America, Sotheby's International Jewellery Division:
"The strength of the auctions that we have here at Sotheby's are the private collections that we are able to offer for sale. This is a result of pieces that have been out of circulation in some instances for decades that incorporate the elegance of a certain time, the workmanship that is no longer common, coming freshly on the market in a venue that invites everyone to come and compete."
15. Mid of display cases
16. Close-up emerald and diamond ring, formerly from the Estate of Florence Bacon Gould Sturgeon
17. Mid, emerald ring being put back in display case next to sapphire ring
18. Mid, platinum diamond, ruby, emerald and sapphire pieces
19. Close-up diamond, onyx and emerald panther brooch
20. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lisa Hubbard, Chairman, North & South America, Sotheby's International Jewelry Division:
"They tried to make beautiful animal out of the hardest of metal, platinum, and using the hardest of stones, diamonds, and they succeeded quite beautifully."
21. Close-up panther brooch
22. Back view of panther brooch
23. Close-up, pull focus Cartier carved coloured stone, diamond and pearl "Tutti Frutti" bracelet, from an European collection
24. Close-up diamond and pearl sautoir
25. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lisa Hubbard, Chairman, North & South America, Sotheby's International Jewelry Division:
"There is a wonderful Cartier sautoir, a long necklace finely set with diamonds that terminates in a wonderful natural pearl. That is the definition of simplicity and elegance and of course what makes it particularly timely is the market that has exploded in the last few years, is that of natural pearls."
16. Close-up square emerald-cut diamond ring, from the estate of Lynn Wolfson
17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lisa Hubbard, Chairman, North & South America, Sotheby's International Jewelry Division:
19. Mid, jewellery
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