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The best-selling novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford had 40 pieces from her jewelry collection auctioned in 2013.
"People who don't know me think I've sold all my jewelry, but I haven't," she said in a telephone interview from her New York apartment. "I only sold about a third; I still had more than 80 pieces. That's enough for anybody. And it's grown since."
Later, Ms. Taylor Bradford produced a list of 103 pieces. They tell the story of her 52-year marriage to the American film producer Robert Bradford, who gave his wife most of this glittering cornucopia.
There are haute pieces from Tiffany, Cartier and Harry Winston, as well as from David Morris in London, Verdura, Claire Richter and Tambe tti designed by Dvora. More dazzling creations were discovered in Rio de Janeiro, Capri and Istanbul.
"Bob loves jewelry," Ms. Taylor Bradford said. "When he buys something for me, he has to love it, then I have to love it. I always do. He's got very good taste and a very good eye, because he's been a movie producer all his life."
One favorite anecdote recounts a vacation in Capri when Mr. Bradford went out to buy a newspaper and came back with some "flowers" — multicolored sapphires in a necklace.
Gifts appear on birthdays and wedding anniversaries, to celebrate her finishing a book or his making a movie (he has filmed 10 of her novels, some for television) or just because something catches his eye.
A pair of emerald earrings with aquamarine drops from Verdura appeared on May 10, her birthday. "They were a total surprise," she said. "We just loved the extraordinary combination of green and blue. Englishwomen do love sapphires and aquamarines." Her husband does, too.
Another favorite gem is her blue sapphire and diamond engagement ring from Ms. Richter's Fifth Avenue boutique in New York, which specialized in estate jewelry.
"It looks identical to the ring Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, wears now that belonged to Princess Diana," she said. "But Bob bought mine almost 40 years ago, because I had another one he thought was too small."
Ms. Taylor Bradford is 82, but her flawless skin, blondish coif and sparkling blue-green eyes belie her age. "I love my pieces and I enjoy wearing them," she said. "Since I like rather plain, tailored clothes, I like to dress up an outfit with a pin, some beads or pearls."
She also likes to mix pieces from different jewelers. To set off an evening ensemble of a pale green silk coat and pants, she wore the new Verdura earrings and two aquamarine and diamond pieces: a ring from Amsterdam Saurer in Rio de Janeiro that is part of a three-piece set, and a bracelet from Tina in Istanbul. The ensemble was finished with her Harry Winston diamond wedding eternity ring and a Patek Philippe white gold and diamond watch.
For another evening outfit of a white silk coat and black pants, the eye-catchers included a copy of the Theodora cream-colored enameled gold cuff with a Byzantine jeweled Maltese Cross, originally created for Coco Chanel. (She owns No. 65 of the 70 copies made by Verdura in 2009.) In addition to a matching brooch, she wore similarly toned multicolored sapphire earrings from David Morris, a large yellow diamond ring from Alberto e Lina in Capri, another gold Patek Philippe watch and her Harry Winston wedding ring.
Ms. Taylor Bradford's affection for jewelry goes back to her childhood in Yorkshire.
"When I was a little girl, Shirley Temple was very much in vogue, and I had a Shirley Temple rigid bracelet," she recalled. Then she was given a gold cross at her confirmation.
"When I was about 18, my father, Winston Taylor, gave me my first string of good pearls from a jeweler in Leeds, where I was growing up," she said. "Later he gave me an opal pinky ring. When I was about 21, he gave me some delicate earrings with a tiny diamond, a chain and a small pear-shaped opal."
Ms. Taylor Bradford, who went into journalism at — as she always specifies — 15 1/2, was by then working in Fleet Street. "Unfortunately, I had a robbery and they were all stolen," she said. "Since then I've been very careful with jewelry. I have safes and a bank vault. If I need something important, I get it from the bank.� ��
She also bought a few things for herself: "Silver bangles and some very pretty blue beads because I wear a lot of pale blue."
Soon Mr. Bradford stepped in. "The first thing Bob bought me was a string of pearls," she said, noting that men have always bought her jewelry — though there have been "only two, my father and Bob."
A birthday present from Mr. Bradford, a choker of 27 large matched white South Sea pearls with a diamond clasp and big South Sea pearl earrings surrounded by diamonds from David Morris in London, are things "I can wear both day and night," she said.
Her pearl jewelry includes a multistrand pearl and diamond bracelet from Capri, a pink pearl necklace with a rose kunzite clip-on pendant that matches a pearl and diamond ring, golden pearls and a Verdura Lily of the Valley brooch, which has articulated pearl blossoms that jiggle on an enamel green leaf.
"Pearls suit my skin," she said. "I have a very clear English pink and white face. Now, I often wear pearls because they have become my trademark. When I do an event like a book and author lunch or tea, I always wear a string of pearls Bob bought from Claire years ago. If I don't, the fans say, 'Where are the pearls?"'
Since "A Woman of Substance" in 1979, Ms. Taylor Bradford's books have so ld about 88 million copies worldwide. They are published in 40 languages and in 90 countries.
Inspired by a passage in her 1986 "Act of Will," when the heroine is advised to buy a parrot because "you don't have to walk it," her husband bought a cherished sapphire, diamond, ruby and gold parrot brooch. He gave it to her joking that it didn't have to be walked either.
"Bob has a wonderful sense of humor. He makes me laugh every day," she said. When he gave her a Tiffany blue enamel bracelet, she teased, "Thank you, I love it, Bob darling, but Jackie Kennedy always wore two. He laughed, and the next birthday, the yellow one showed up." (They are enamel on 18-karat gold.)
Equally fond of watches, the author has amassed a large collection, including multiple examples by Cartier, Tiffany and Patek Philippe. One favorite is the Cartier Tank with diamonds and a black satin strap that she bought for herself after her first novel became a best seller. Another is the all-gold Piaget with diamonds encircling the face, an anniversary present from her husband. "The queen has the same one," she said. "Every time I wear it, I smile, thinking of when she gave me my OBE at Buckingham Palace in 2007," she added, referring to the Order of the British Empire honor.
Ms. Taylor Bradford wore a cream jacket and pearls and carried a black handbag. So did the queen. "In the photos, we looked to be wearing identical clothing," she said with a laugh.
When she decided to auction some pieces, statement jewels that she no longer wore, at Bonhams in London, "they sold in 38 minutes," she said. "I made just under £1 million." (The proceeds, including buyers premiums, actually were £1,229,250, or $1,964,465 at the time.)
But temptation is always lurking, even when the Bradfords go into Verdura to drop off a repair, as they did recently. As she walked past a display case, Ms. Bradford sa w what she thought looked like the Duchess of Windsor's chalcedony beads and earrings.
They were. She recalled saying: "I bet they're a million dollars. Don't take them out of the case." Their salesperson meanwhile had zipped off and returned with a double strand of polished blue chalcedony beads with a double link diamond clasp.
"Bob said, 'I love them. Try them on."' And when she did, he said they should buy them. "When you have a generous husband who buys you jewelry over 50 years," she observed, "you end up with a lot."
Quite a few of these personal jewels turn up in her fiction. One sapphire bead and diamond bracelet in spired Lady Daphne's engagement present from Hugo in "Cavendon Hall." A similar ruby bead and diamond bracelet was stolen by Felicity, the countess in "Cavendon Women," Ms. Taylor Bradford's most recent book, where the family jewels, many inspired by her own, are major plot features.
Her diamond and topaz Bird on the Rock from Tiffany's, and an ebony and diamond butterfly brooch from Alberto e Lina, will appear in "Cavendon Luck," the third volume of the saga that she is now writing. "I've learned a lot about jewelry over the years," she said. "Women love to read about it — that and my love scenes."
"Jewelry is emotional. I think women love a piece because of who gave it to them, how long they have had it, the love and the memori es of somebody caring," she said. "The little Cartier watch, the blue sapphire ring, the pearls and my parrot — those are pieces I would never sell."
Proof of just how much some pieces mean to her came a few months ago when her "everyday" pearls from Ms. Richter's shop went missing. "I looked for days for those pearls, tore the apartment apart," she recalled. "I became very upset. I was really distraught.
"Bob said, 'I'll buy you another string.' 'It's not any pearls,' I told him. It's those pearls that I've had for years, an anniversary present. I love them. I can wear them every day. What have I done with them?"
More than a week passed before she took another look in her Hermès Kelly bag. "There is a zipped purse with credit cards, cash and door keys. I would never put them in there," she said. "But lying at the bottom of this silk bag was the string of pearls. The whole house was happy."
Correction: November 23, 2015An earlier version of this article misidentified the maker of Ms. Bradford's Maltese Cross cuff. It was the Verdura company, not Fulco di Verdura.
