Seaman Schepps. A pair of gold and shell earrings. Each incorporates a compressed conical striped...

Seaman Schepps. A pair of gold and shell earrings. Each incorporates a compressed conical striped shell. Applied with small gold square-shaped studs. 3cm wide. Signed P. S. V. of Seamen Schepps. The initials are for Patricia Schepps Vaill, daughter of Seaman Schepps, who ran the business from her fathers death in 1972. For similar earrings by David Webb see lots 5-7, The jewels of the Duchess of Windsor, Sotheby's Geneva, April 1987.