Lot 896 – A Pair of Platinum and Diamond Earclips, Van Cleef & Arpels, New York, 1966. Estimate 70,000 – 90,000 USD. Lot sold 134,500 USD. Photo: Sotheby's 2012

designed as articulated fringes set with 12 marquise-shaped diamonds weighing approximately 7.50 carats, 16 pear-shaped diamonds weighing approximately 9.00 carats and 38 round diamonds weighing approximately 9.50 carats, signed Van Cleef & Arpels, numbered N.Y. 37114 ©1966; with signed box. 

Sotheby's. Property from the Estate of Brooke Astor. New York, 24 sept. 2012