New York auction houses must have heard that some Wall Street brokerages are paying bonuses early this year: December sales are packed with pricey cuff links.
The fashion accessory dates back nearly 250 years, to the reign of Louis XIV. The luxury-loving monarch favored glass buttons linking his cuffs rather than the strings that were de rigueur in his day. The fashion trickled down from the aristocracy to tradespeople over the decades. And, until...
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