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A La Vieille Russie Recreates Its Paris Years At Didier Aaron

Source: Antiques & The Arts Online By Laura Beach A La Vieille Russie is lifting the cover on a dealer’s most closely guarded secret: its guest book, or livre d’or, containing the names of dozens of its best clients, colleagues and sources in the 1920s and 1930s. The revelations are part of a selling […]

In a Nutshell: Blaze of Glory from Arts & Antiques

Demand for cigarette cases kept FabergÃ©â€™s artisans busy. According to the 1998 book The FabergÃ© Case, Jalmari Haikonen, an engraver employed by FabergÃ© in St. Petersburg from 1915â€“18, noted seeing as many as 40 lined up, awaiting his attention. â€œA cigarette case was something you wanted a beautiful example of,â€ says Mark Schaffer, a […]

Sick Schaffer from ANTIQUE International

Sick Schaffer Source: ANTIQUE International By Amy Page, Editor-in-Chief of Art and Auction ‘The only reason we sell,’ says New York dealer Peter Schaffer, ‘is that we are sicker than our customers. Our customers need to buy something once a month, once a year. If we don’t buy something once a day we’re miserable. […]

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Take a Taste, or a Big Bite, of Luxury from The NY Times

3 P.M. Glance at the flashy displays of diamonds in the windows of Graff, Leviev and Chopard as you stroll down Madison Avenue, turning onto 59th Street. At the corner is Ã€ La Vieille Russie, a fifth-generation antique jewelry and art dealership, 781 Fifth Avenue, (212) 752-1727. The shop specializes in ornate snuffboxes, works […]

A Ruby Is To A Sapphire as an Emerald is to an Aquamarine

Â Gemstones come in traditional colors. However, these “traditional” colors are usually not the only colors that exist for these gems. Often some of the most interesting colors are used in antique jewelry. A corundum by any other name is still a corundum when red, it is called RUBY. When it is blue, it is […]

Russian Treasures â€“ As mentioned in The New York Times

The 150-year-old company Ã€ la Vieille Russie has greatly expanded its gallery at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street. “We wanted to have more space to do exhibitions,” said Mark Schaffer, an owner. The first show, “St. Petersburg and Imperial Style,” includes antique Russian jewelry, Russian furniture, large Russian paintings, Imperial porcelain and enamel-monogrammed glasses. […]

ALVR & Forty Years of FORBES and FABERGE

Winter 2004 The sale of a portion of the Forbes Magazine Collection of FabergÃ© has been of particular interest to A La Vieille Russie, whose long association with Malcolm Forbes began in 1964. At Easter of that year, he made his first purchase, a miniature Easter egg for $250., which, with his son Tim, […]

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