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

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'70s, I believe.

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APPRAISER: Yes.

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

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

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

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

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APPRAISER: You-- I'm sorry?

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

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APPRAISER: A puppy?

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

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

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APPRAISER: And how did 
you get the necklace back?

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GUEST: I... borrowed it back.

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

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

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puppy back, because I 
love him far too much.

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APPRAISER: Of course.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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GUEST: Right.

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

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

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

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GUEST: Right.

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

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

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GUEST: Maybe I should wear it.

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

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

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

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

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

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GUEST: Right.

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

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$3,000 and $5,000.

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

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

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