Art Deco Spaulding & Co. Diamond Black Onyx and Platinum Butterfly Choker, Circa 1925

An Art Deco butterfly choker, by Spaulding & Co, with a central butterfly, with open wings, flanked by two butterflies, with closed wings, on sliding fittings to adjust their position, set with eight-cut  diamonds, with a round brilliant-cut diamond in the thorax of the centre butterfly and Edwardian-cut diamonds in the thoraxes of the flanking diamonds, the wing edges are channel set with French cut calibré black onyx, mounted in platinum, with an eight-cut diamond set platinum box clasp, on a velvet choker, signed Spaulding & Co., made in Chicago, USA, circa 1925.

Spaulding & Co. was founded by Henry Abiram Spaulding, born 1837, in Chicago, USA, in 1888. For a detailed biography, written in 1894 please see the link below:

https://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=31329

In 1929 Spaulding & Co. Inc., Black Starr & Frost and Gorham Company were consolidated into a company called called Gorham, Inc. 

With thanks to the New York Times and 925-1000.com