Marcus & Co. Notable Sales
Date8 August 1943 to 29 January 1945
file namemarcus-history-004
abstractMarcus & Co. notable sales, spanning 1943-1945, and Gerard Maniano biography.
August 8th 1943
Paul E. Flato
Precious jewelry goes to Gimbels
Gimbels buys thousands of dollar's worth of
Necklaces, Rings, Bracelets, Clips, Studs,etc.
Property of Paul E. Flato 1 East 57th
St.
25% to 70% off
Outstanding pieces was a Topaz Necklace worth $7000,00 sold for $1375.00 to
a well known Philadelphia banker.
9-26-43
You bring your jewelry to Gimbels fifth
floor.
We appraise it and buy it from you there and then.
We pay you spot cash for your jewelry.
You turn the spot cash into War Bonds on the spot.
Gimbels will sell your jewelry with out charging one penny for selling it if you
turn the cash into War Bonds.
Sold over 1/4 million in War Bonds.
Ellen Esther Knight Briggs
December 12, 1943
| Famous Briggs Estate | |
|---|---|
| $28000.00 | 12 carat Marquise |
| $16000.00 | Platinum Bracelet Emerald cut, 21 Rd. 280 baguettes 308 diamonds in all, about 43 carat. A masterpiece |
| $10000.00 | Platinum Bracelet 2 Rd, 20 Marquise, half moon, edge to edge baguettes 454 diamonds, about 25.20 carats |
| $4000.00 | Platinum clip brooch 40 Sapphires, 242 diamonds in almost every shape; Triangle, hexagon, kite, half moon, baguette, etc. about 15 carats |
| $3000.00 | Lorgnette, onyx cameo 78 diamonds, chain of round, baguettes, triangle diamonds; 302 in all |
| $2000.00 | Flexible platinum earrings 2 diamonds about 3 carats, 6 diamonds about 2.60 carats, 40 smaller |
January 29th, 1945
King Star Sapphire 392-3/4 carats, value $20000.00
New York's largest collection of Star
Sapphires
December 16th, 1945
Gimbels sold John
Bubel Jewels from Saks 5th Ave.
No name used on ad-- 50% off. Smartest
uptown speciality shop. Rubies, Emeralds, Sapphires, Topaz, Pearls
June 29th, 1947 Caravan Cultured Pearls by
the carat
August 8th, 1943
Paul E. Flate Precious Jewelry goes to
Gimbels
Gimbels buys thousands of dollar's worth of
Necklaces, Rings, Bracelets, Clips, Studs, etc.
Property of Paul E. Flato
1 East 57th St.
25% to 70% off
Oustanding pieces was a Topaz necklace worth $7000.0O sold for $1375.00 to
a well known Philadelphia banker.
9-26-43
You bring your jewelry to Gimbels fifth
floor. We appraise it and buy it from you there and then. We pay you
spot cash for your jewelry. You turn the spot cash into War Bonds on the
spot.
Gimbels will sell yoar Jewelry with out
charging one penny for selling it if you turn the cash into War Bonds.
Sold over 1/4 million in War Bonds.
January 29th, 1945
King Star Sapphire 392-3/4 carats, value $20000.00
New York's largest collection of Star
Sapphires
December 16th, 1945
Gimbels sold John
Rubel Jewels from Saks 5th Ave.
No name used on ad-- 50% off. Smartest
uptown speciality shop. Rubies, Emeralds, Sapphires, Topaz, Pearls
June 29th, 1947 Caravan Cultured Pearls by
the carat
Gerard C. Maniano I began my career in
the diamond business in the employment of the original
William Simpson (Established 1822), 91 Park Row, New York City, working there
from 1929 to 1942. I studied Gemology at
New York Univerity in 1933 . While with Simpson's I was intrumental in making a loan to Evelyn Walsh Mclean on the famous Hope
diamond and some other jewelry. The money was to be used as ransom in the
Lindberg kidnapping case. This was the money that Gaston B. Means got away with. Later he was caught and
sentenced to twenty years in jail.
I went to work fro R. H. Macy's & Co. when
they opened their brokerage de- partment in 1942. I was also instrumental in setting up their appraisal
department. I resigned in December 1952
to accept a job with Marcus & Co.
My hobby is raising harness horses. I own a 63 acre farm in Freehold, New Jersey which I call Yellow
Brook Farm. We have our own stallion and breed mares and we raise the
horses that we race. I train and race my own horses in my spare time. We
have six horses in training for this year's races. My family has been in
the trotting horse sport for many years.
We have had horses in the Hambletonian, and won one heat of a
Harmbletonian. We won races at Roosevelt Raceway; Saratoga; Foxboro,
Massachusetts; Harring- ton, Delaware; etc. One colt that I raised is King
Majesty, the only horse of his color racing today. He is a white horse with
spots and undertones of almsot every color of the rainbow. He closely
resembles an Appaloosa. I feel that this hobby relieves the tension of the
strenuous job with which we are taxed.
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