08/16/2026
God made me look inside a normal boring box sitting in the middle of a bunch of other normal dirty boxes at a sale.
And listen, if you know me, you already know that if there is anything shiny ANYWHERE around, I’m going to spot it. 😂
There it was. Laying there with wire and receipt books and leaves and rusty dirt tools and wasps nests and whatever.
I picked it up thinking it was just a cool piece of vintage costume jewelry. Bought the whole box and took it home.
When I got home, I looked inside the bracelet:
“Charles Revson.”
“1970 Aldo Cipullo.”
“Gold Electroplated.”
“Made in England.”
Down the rabbit hole I went, and y’all, the story just kept getting better.
Aldo Cipullo was the designer who created Cartier’s legendary LOVE bracelet. His idea was a bracelet fastened around the wrist with a screwdriver, symbolizing a love that wasn’t meant to be casually taken off. Tiffany reportedly passed on the design. Cartier said yes, and it became one of the most recognizable pieces of jewelry in the world.
Richard Burton gave one to Elizabeth Taylor. Cartier still sells the design more than 50 years later, and solid-gold versions now sell for thousands.
But Cipullo also created a gold-electroplated version for Charles Revson, the founder of Revlon.
And THAT is what I had pulled out from among the yucky screws and hinges and muddaubers.
Then I found an Antiques Roadshow episode where they placed this exact type of Charles Revson bracelet beside an early solid-gold Cartier LOVE bracelet and explained their shared history. The boxed Revson version was valued at $1,000 to $1,500.
Wow.
Mine does not have its original box or screwdriver, so I am not claiming the Roadshow value. But it opens easily with a small flathead screwdriver and is in exceptionally nice vintage condition.
It is not Cartier and it is not solid gold. It is the rare, signed 1970 Charles Revson version, designed by the same man who created the Cartier icon.
And now it is available for $800 or reasonable offer. Local pickup in Claremore.
Some people might call a find like this luck. I don’t.
This whole story is God, and this is exactly why I make sure He is the boss of me. Where I go. Who I talk to. Where I look. Even the little nudges that don’t make sense at the time.
I ask Him for favor. I ask Him to put my name on the hearts of the people I’m supposed to do life with or have a conversation with. I ask Him to place the right people in my path and lead me into the places I’m supposed to be.
Sometimes that path leads to a person.
Sometimes it leads to an opportunity.
And sometimes it leads straight through cobwebs and grease stained boxes to a little piece of fashion history I never would have found on my own. ❤️
