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Frank Everett

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  1. “That I think she had honed since birth to become the legend that she is and to see again those pearls, those simulated pearls in some of the most iconic images of all time really says something.”

    2026-02-21 · Intelligence Squared · The Specialist | Jackie O's Faux Pearls, with Frank Everett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “And their shoe would be on the cover in this Ole Cassini dress wearing the triple strand of pearls. This would be on your coffee table for months. You'd look at it a thousand times. It was imprinted on your brain. So I think it was a different time and we now underestimate the power of an image. So it lived in the consciousness of people for their whole lives. I mean, I remember seeing those pictures when I was a little kid and just being entranced by her. What I love about these pearls is that they show up in some of the happiest and most beautiful images that we have of her. This is joy. This is hope. And this is how we want to remember her. So I think it's a disservice to simply say that she was beautiful and more clothes well and was a style icon. She was more a true role model for women. She was a working first lady. You can say that about others. You can not say that about others that have come and gone since. And she used every tool in her kit.”

    2026-02-21 · Intelligence Squared · The Specialist | Jackie O's Faux Pearls, with Frank Everett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  3. “Again, of this iconic status. There are just a handful of people whose provenance will endure. And certainly Jacqueline Kennedy has to be at the top of the list. I think what makes an icon is certainly personal style. We don't see Jackie Kennedy's fashion sense as modern today as it was at the time. She really was ahead of the game. And I think that's part of what makes an icon of style is not someone who is just shopping, not someone who is just having clothes sent over and choosing something from Iraq, but somebody who thinks about their own personal presentation, what is the message they're trying to send right now with social media, we're so inundated with pictures, we barely even look at them. We barely even take them in. But when you think about in the 60s, where were you seeing these things? Little blips on television. The screen wasn't a very good quality. You saw them in magazines, right? So you'd get life magazine.”

    2026-02-21 · Intelligence Squared · The Specialist | Jackie O's Faux Pearls, with Frank Everett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  4. “All the great collections of the day contain plenty of costume jewelry. And then there's also fashion jewelry that may be made of some fine materials, but of lower value, maybe something that's unsigned, not made by Cartier or Tiffany or Vancle and Arpels. So you certainly are offering an entry price point for people that want to participate in a sale, that want to own a piece of this legendary collection. Now, when you add pictures of that woman or a legend like Jacqueline Kennedy, then the price keeps going up exponentially. Of course, the Duchess of Windsor in the 80s, Jacqueline Kennedy, and then, of course, when we sold the collection of Mrs. Paul Mellon, the same thing happened. So I think those would be for me among the greatest jewelry collections of all time. And certainly where we have seen the greatest power of Provenance. I don't think anything would ever be able to approach the response to these pearls, the result that we saw simply because”

    2026-02-21 · Intelligence Squared · The Specialist | Jackie O's Faux Pearls, with Frank Everett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  5. “Fashion and costume jewelry. And I think it was quite smart to start with it instead of end with it because it set the tone and then all the other lots. I mean, many other lots performed as well against their very low estimates of $100, $200. Nothing went cheap and nobody expected the spirited and aggressive bidding and participation in the auction, and certainly nobody expected the end result, particularly on these pearls. We estimated these pearls at five hundred to seven hundred dollars and the end result being two hundred eleven thousand dollars was absolutely staggering. We do know, and it is public knowledge that the buyer was the Franklin Mint, who then went on to reproduce this necklace many, many times over. And then it ended up in the Smithsonian Museum in Washington.”

    2026-02-21 · Intelligence Squared · The Specialist | Jackie O's Faux Pearls, with Frank Everett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  6. “Was a style icon, three distinct roles that influenced the world. The estate of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis came to Sotheby's in the nineties. The sale was in 1996. In the negotiation there was a lot of concern about which pieces to include, how much of her personal effects do you put in the sale, and it was very interesting that they decided to really put so much of the fashion jewelry especially that had such low value, the decision was so right because I think they were able to share a piece of this woman with the world. The reaction to this sale shocked everyone in terms of the overwhelming response, the catalog needed to be purchased in order to gain entry to the exhibition because the lines were so long, and it was a vast collection, so it took up the entire building. I can just sort of hear all the murmuring because it would have been a packed room. And this was kicking off the highly successful portion of the”

    2026-02-21 · Intelligence Squared · The Specialist | Jackie O's Faux Pearls, with Frank Everett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  7. “Then we see her again. She's leaning over lighting candles at a beautiful dining table at a state dinner. She's wearing a wonderful Oleg Cassini strapless gown with that triple strand of pearls. She's lighting the candles. Here's Jackie as first lady running a state dinner taking very seriously her role as the entertaining Doyne of the White House. Then we see her again. She was dressed exclusively by Ole Cassini during her time as first lady, and she favored particularly pale colors, pastel colors. There's iconic pictures of her in a pale yellow satin dress with the triple strand of pearls with a little bow at the waist of the dress. And to me it's one of the most iconic fashion images. She always was looking just past the camera as if she saw someone she knew. She was engaged. I just noticed it again and again and again where it was always just like as if she was about to say hello to someone in this open warm friendly way. She was a mother, she was first lady.”

    2026-02-21 · Intelligence Squared · The Specialist | Jackie O's Faux Pearls, with Frank Everett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  8. “A very versatile piece of jewelry. We don't know who made the pearl necklace. A lot of her costume jewelry, what was made by Kenneth J Lane, who really built his career on making replicas of ladies' jewelry. At the time, in the mid-century, costume jewelry was seen a bit differently than it is today. All women wore jewelry all the time. Earrings, bracelets, brooches. It was less important whether it was real or costume, and many women who could afford all the fine jewelry that they wanted wore lots of costume jewelry. They had lots of it in their wardrobes. They felt very comfortable traveling with it. One of the things that I love about these pearls is that you see them worn repeatedly. And there are three images that really stand out that most famous in 1962, I believe it is, where she's holding her young son, JFK Jr. She has her head tossed back in laughter and her son is sort of playing with one of the strands of pearls. So this is iconic. This is Jackie's mother.”

    2026-02-21 · Intelligence Squared · The Specialist | Jackie O's Faux Pearls, with Frank Everett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  9. “Associate with her most of all, she's an icon for many reasons, not just for fashion and style. Jacqueline Kennedy took her role very seriously as a role model, as a tastemaker, before we talked about taste makers, as an influencer before we talked about influencers, and she approached her role as first lady as a full-time job, and I would say she knocked it out of the park in every way. We don't know why she was so partial to these particular pearls, but they are of a beautiful size and color. They are made to mimic kind of a cultured Koya pearl that runs about 10 millimeter. So it's a triple strand beautifully matched, and then the clasp is made in the art deco style. It's made of silver and paste, not diamonds and platinum, as you would imagine from the Art Deco period, but it certainly looked just like it. They can be worn quite casually. They can be worn with a cocktail dress. They can be worn as she did so often with an evening gown entertaining at a state dinner.”

    2026-02-21 · Intelligence Squared · The Specialist | Jackie O's Faux Pearls, with Frank Everett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  10. “Going to be talking today about what I consider to be the greatest example of the power of provenance in the jewelry world. When we talk about value points and the way we assign value to any object here, we talk about many things. You know, we talk about rarity. We talk about quality. We talk about size. But when we talk about provenance, which is my personal favorite part of my job, there's nothing like Jackie Kennedy's triple strand of simulated pearls. The price that they brought and the excitement that they generated, it really ticks only one box, which is Provenance. Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis was the first lady in the 60s married to John F. Kennedy, went on to become the wife of Aristotle Onassis. She became an editor at Random House and had a very rich and wonderful life beyond her role as First Lady, but certainly that's what we.”

    2026-02-21 · Intelligence Squared · The Specialist | Jackie O's Faux Pearls, with Frank Everett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  11. “Will never be another First Lady like her. There will never be Like her. And so why wouldn't people want to own even a small piece of that?”

    2026-02-21 · Intelligence Squared · The Specialist | Jackie O's Faux Pearls, with Frank Everett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT