D.D. Ryan's Estate, Part 2: Jewelry

I don't know what's come over me with this D.D. Ryan auction. Usually I'd see something like this, think "too rich for my blood," and move on. But instead, I'm completely intrigued. The first time I looked at it, I felt totally like a voyeur, like I was walking through the rooms of a house of a person I wanted to know. There are hundreds of pieces of jewelry in this estate sale, mostly costume, all I imagine worn to fabulous New York parties where serious fun was had. Among them, I'm fixated on these pretty, oversize Chanel brooches.