Andrew Grima

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On November 15, Andrew Grima, the Jermyn Street, London, jewellers, paid £335.196 ($804,470.40) at Christie's in Geneva, on behalf of a British client, for a pear-shaped diamond weighing 55.91 carats. Only a handful of diamonds can command this kind of price. The last record-breaking sale was of Elizabeth Taylor's celebrated stone, which fetched £437,500 ($1,050,000) at Parke-Bernet, New York. Hers weighed 69.42 carats. The Gemmological Institute of America certified that the stone sold in November is 'literally flawless', and that it has 'a rare light blue colour'.

Source: The Connoisseur - February 1973

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Pearls and Opals

It’s just six months since Andrew Grima, perhaps the most distinguished of Britain’s many modern jewelry designers, took his collection of 86 lovely prototype watches to EXPO ’70 in Japan. Now he is off again, this time to New York, He has created 82 wonderful pieces of jewelry featuring pearls and opals. This collection took a year to build - which incidentally meant that Grima tied up £125,000 for that time. It was spent on beautiful opals from Australia which he visited before EXPO °70, and on baroque pearls he found in Rangoon on the way back. The opals range from black through blue to translucent and irridescent white, and the pearls from black through deep gold to white: Naturally, prices are not low. A choker necklet of pearls set in molten gold cups, for instance, costs £6,600.


Source: The Japan Times - 12th December 1970

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