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Investment jewelry presented at MFF-2024

14 october 2024

Investments in Jewelry Art and Collectibles exhibition opened for participants of the Moscow Financial Forum (MFF-2024).

Commemorative and investment coins, jewelry and products made of cut stones with investment appeal are being exhibited at the event.

One of the notable exhibits is a recreated brooch with an aquamarine from the Carl Faberge company - a gift from Tsarevich Nikolai Alexandrovich to his bride Alice of Hesse. This is a joint project of the Art Industry and Jewelry Development Fund and the CHAMOVSKIKH jewelry house timed for the 130th anniversary of the wedding of Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna.

The exhibition will feature jewelry items by JSC Goznak, boutiques CHAMOVSKIKH, DYULBER, Ilgiz F, Maxim Demidov, Stone-cutting house of Alexey Antonov, as well as jewelry companies ArgentoV, Axenoff, RODIS, Russian Kaleidoscope.

Participants of the MFF will get acquainted with products of the jewelry educational brand POSIE by ALROSA, MiLiO and Vesna, as well as works of private collector Leonid Shashkov.

The exhibition will be held as part of a large joint project "Triumph of the domestic art industry and jewelry firms at world exhibitions in the 19th - early 20th centuries", which began in 2021 at the anniversary Moscow Financial Forum.

The event is organized by the Ministry of Finance of Russia and the Foundation for the Development of Art Industry and Jewelry Art.

Galina Semyonova, Editor in Chief of the Russian Bureau, Rough&Polished