Alternative Asset Data

for Luxury Collectibles

ALT/FNDATA is the market data platform for passion investments: realized auction prices, valuations and tax tools across watches, art, cars, jewelry and wine.

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Barbara Hutton

Barbara Hutton

Jewelry

Woolworth heiress whose jadeite is among the most valuable ever auctioned.

Realized at sale$27.4M
Estimated today modeled~$21M
−23%
Modeled value over timemodeled

Realized price carried forward by ALT/FNDATA’s trophy-tier price trend for each lot’s category.

A modeled market-level estimate, not an appraisal. Individual pieces vary.

Documented sales

The Hutton-Mdivani jadeite bead necklace (Cartier clasp)
The Hutton-Mdivani jadeite bead necklace (Cartier clasp) Confirmed
Sotheby's·Magnificent Jewels and Jadeite, Hong Kong · Apr 7, 2014
A world record for jadeite jewelry; bought by the Cartier Collection. Reportedly a 1933 wedding gift from her father.
Guinness World Records Image: Sotheby's
RealizedUS$27.44m (~HK$214m)

“Estimated today” is a modeled figure, not an appraisal: each realized price is adjusted by the change in ALT/FNDATA’s trophy-tier price level for its category (the median of comparable high-value lots, from the sale year to the present). It is a market-level estimate; individual pieces vary, and categories without enough comparable high-value data are shown as insufficient to estimate.

Notable historical collection. The realized figures are public auction results, from the dates shown. “Estimated today” and the value chart are modeled market estimates, not a live valuation or appraisal, and not a current holding.
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