Lawrence Jeffrey Estate Jewelers is named to honor Jeff’s father and grandfather. It is our privilege to offer our customers Antique Jewelry and Estate Jewelry of remarkable character. It is our mission to trade in an ethical, legal and fair manner.  It is our aspiration to add grace to the world by presenting Fashion and preserving Style through Antique Jewelry and Estate Jewelry.  As a firm, we will strive to earn your patronage and deserve your trust.
 

A third generation dealer, Jeff gained his appreciation for antiques at his grandmother’s knee, (she had a huge bookstore and three antique shops, as well as her own auctioneer). His earliest memories are of sitting in her shop display windows as a toddler as if it was a playpen. As a child his favorite school vacations were spent exploring the stuff stored in her 15 room Victorian home. “It was like Aladdin’s cave! I remember one closet was filled with porcelain and the chest at the end of the main staircase was packed with silver and small boxes. If I was good we could unpack a box from the attic after dinner.” She loved books most of all and at the height of her career was the largest Antiquarian book dealer in the country.

Jeff’s father was a unique individual who had a strong love of jewelry. One of Jeff’s fondest memories was going to Amsterdam with his father at age four to buy Mom the promised engagement ring (they were too poor to afford one when first married). Living at that time in Germany, (Dad was a captain and helicopter pilot in the American army), Jeff remembers riding along the tops of verdant dikes past huge bundles of bright tulips in his father’s Morgan, (an open top sports car). The diamond merchants were very patient with the young child’s curiosity about the fantastic gems. It left a deep impression -- the cool dark quiet broken by brilliant shafts of light focused on the cutter’s workbenches -- this is how Jeff remembers the diamond houses. They were serious silent places where it seemed to a child that the stern faced men were magically creating beauty from the bright light itself. Later, in America, Jeff would accompany his to Jose Grant, a wonderful jeweler in Stamford, Connecticut. There at nine he had his first taste of what the jeweler’s art was all about. It was an astonishing place where there was nothing ready-made to buy. You had to talk to the goldsmiths and describe what you wanted, then pick the gemstones you wanted to use. A few weeks later, you would go and look at what they had done (often a couple of versions if they were intrigued by your project). Jeff’s father’s taste for originality and quality formed an approach to jewelry in Jeff’s mind that would become the cornerstone for our buying methodology.

Carrie:   Is our back of the house specialist. She maintains our websites and inventory, keeping everything up to date. Her steadfast approach to the business is the heart and soul of our excellent customer service reputation. You will often hear cheerful voice on the phone or see her with us at the Miami Beach International Antiques Show and the New York Pier shows.