GUEST: My father gave it to my
mother as a birthday present,
in... sometime in the early

'70s, I believe.

APPRAISER: Yes.

GUEST: And she wore it a few
times, and then she left it to
me, really because I was the

only one with the sort of
chest to wear it. Thing is, you
can't really wear it every day.

You really need a ball gown to
go with it, and I don't wear a
ball gown very often, needless

to say. So it sat in a
drawer for a long time,
and then I swapped out
part of it for a puppy.

APPRAISER: You-- I'm sorry?

GUEST: I swapped it,
part of it, for a puppy.

APPRAISER: A puppy?

GUEST: And I thought my mother
and father would really approve
of the necklace I probably

wasn't going to wear to
a darling Jack Russell
by the name of Max.

APPRAISER: And how did
you get the necklace back?

GUEST: I... borrowed it back.

GUEST: And I was a bit worried
that when I borrowed it
back, the gentleman with whom

the swap was made might want
my puppy back. He's, needless
to say, not going to get the

puppy back, because I
love him far too much.

APPRAISER: Of course.

GUEST: And when I heard the
"ANTIQUES ROADSHOW" was coming,
I thought this would be a great

place to bring it and just
find out a bit more about it.

APPRAISER: Well, when you
brought it up to me, I got very
excited, because it did look

like a jeweler that was
named Andrew Grima, who was a
British jeweler, making jewelry

in London, and basically,
he liked to use all of these
amazing crystals and geodes.

And so he looked at jewelry
as sculpture. This particular
jeweler, who we have here,

from Russell of London, we
needed to do some more research
on this particular jeweler,

but he's definitely a
contemporary of Andrew
Grima. It's from 1975,
which is exactly when

Andrew Grima was in his prime.
He was using things that
weren't necessarily valuable.

GUEST: Right.

APPRAISER: For example, this
is just an amethyst geode, and
he split it in half to resemble

the butterfly wings, embellished
it with some tiny diamonds
from the top and the bottom,

and even made the little
antenna, right here,
en tremblant. So it
trembles when you wear it.

GUEST: Right.

APPRAISER: It's in 18-karat
gold. It's truly one
of a kind. And you said
you don't wear it very

often, but we're in Newport.
Maybe you should wear it.

GUEST: Maybe I should wear it.

APPRAISER: We're in the best
place for it, right now.

GUEST: I'd better find
the grand balls to go
to in order to wear it.

APPRAISER: Yes, exactly. There
are people that are buying

1970s jewelry very much right
now-- it's in vogue. So anything
a little different, anything

a little bit unusual, or very
unusual, we'll call this...

GUEST: Right.

APPRAISER: ...is very desirable
right now. I would say auction
estimate would be between

$3,000 and $5,000.

GUEST: That's very nice to
hear, and also that makes
sense, because I didn't think my

father probably went and spent
$100,000 on a birthday present.

APPRAISER: If it was an
insurance value, it would be,
you know, close to double that.