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Designer jewelry

In the jewelry market, designer pieces are more likely to be lucrative than costume fare. Zimmerman described, for instance, how a vintage bracelet from the French luxury brand Van Cleef & Arpels, with the company’s “VCA” maker’s mark intact, could be worth between $100,000 and $110,000. Depending on their size and precious metal composition, these bracelets retail for as little as $1,300 for the “Sweet Alhambra butterfly bracelet” (made of yellow gold and mother-of-pearl) and upwards of $360,000 for the “Perlée cuff bracelets with diamonds, medium model,” which is comprised of white gold and diamonds.