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Shreve & Company is an established retailer of jewelry, from timepieces to diamonds, headquartered in San Francisco, California.Incorporated in 1894 by George Rodman and Albert J. Lewis, [2] it is considered the oldest commercial establishment in San Francisco.
The Dutch diamond-cutter Alfred Van Cleef and his father-in-law, Salomon Arpels, founded the company in 1896. In 1906, following Arpels’s death, Alfred and two of his brothers-in-law, Charles and Julien, acquired space for Van Cleef & Arpels at 22 Place Vendôme, across from the Hôtel Ritz, where Van Cleef & Arpels opened its first boutique shop. [3]
San Francisco store at 50 Grant Avenue, 1912 to 1948 San Francisco store on Union Square, 1948 to 1994 Former I. Magnin store in Oakland, California. In the early 1870s, Dutch-born Mary Ann Magnin and her husband Isaac Magnin left England and settled in San Francisco. Mary Ann opened a shop in 1876 selling lotions and high-end clothing for infants.
An extremely rare diamond necklace with possible historical links to Marie Antoinette has been sold at auction for nearly $5 million.. On Wednesday, Nov. 13, luxury auction house Sotheby's ...
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The surviving French Crown Jewels, principally a set of historic crowns, diadems and parures, are mainly on display in the Galerie d'Apollon of the Louvre, France's premier museum and former royal palace, together with the Regent Diamond, the Sancy Diamond and the 105-carat (21.0 g) Côte-de-Bretagne red spinel, carved into the form of a dragon.