Jewellery, Watches and Objects of Vertu

A 1950s gem set novelty brooch, by André Col, modelled as a stylized female mask, the angular face of polished smoky agate, with applied gold lips and turquoise eyes, beneath a bobbed fringed hair-cut of woven-link chains and polished plain cap/beret, to a piercedwork collar highlighted with a line of alternate seed pearls and ruby beads, to a double pin fitting, mounted in yellow gold, signed ‘Andre Col, Paris’ and bearing French eagle’s head and lozenge assay marks, in semi fitted case signed ‘Hancocks & Co, London’, brooch length 34mm. £2000-3000