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Re: Windsor Jewels Part 5
« Reply #45 on: October 25, 2006, 04:14:41 PM »
I recently thought i would see what the Vladimir Tiara looks like with a single diamond (Cullinan III) in the central loop. I happen to really like it - what are other people opinions?



Sorry i meant the Cullinan VIII - is it possible to modify posts?

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Re: Windsor Jewels Part 5
« Reply #47 on: October 25, 2006, 08:00:38 PM »
I think it resembles something phallic like  ???

Oh my, things are heating up in here!    :o


I think it looks rather good, boffer.  Nice job.  It would be interesting to see this in real life, that's for sure.  It probably wouldn't take much fiddling around to do either, as the hangy-things (yes, that is the technical term  :P ) are already there in the tiara. 
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« Reply #48 on: October 25, 2006, 09:14:44 PM »
I like it more with the pearls (can't help being a traditionalist).  :(

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« Reply #49 on: October 26, 2006, 07:45:22 AM »
I don't like it just with the single diamond hanging. Maybe if there were diamonds hanging from all of the ''hangy-things'' it would look good - but alas, that isn't possible.  ::)

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« Reply #50 on: October 26, 2006, 05:03:52 PM »
I recently created these picture, and thought i would share then with people here 




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« Reply #51 on: October 27, 2006, 08:42:12 AM »
Nice compilations boffer.

I suppose this is getting quite picky, but strictly speaking, the Cambridge emeralds did not include the 'Ladies of India' necklace or the carved emerald brooch IIRC. 

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« Reply #52 on: October 27, 2006, 09:59:34 AM »
Yes i know, also it was recently revealed by the royal colection with their website for the summer exhibition that only one of the earrings was a cambridge earring; and the other was found by garrards to match.
I just put them all together as they were worn  :)

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« Reply #53 on: October 27, 2006, 10:51:03 AM »
That's totally cool.  I didn't know that about the earrings.   :)    Did they mention why there was only one that was a Cambridge?  Was there only one stone of a suitable size remianing at the time the earring idea came up, or was it because the original earring had been lost? (quelle catastrophe!!)  Or did Queen Mary's brother's (can't remember which one it was...) mistress get to keep one of them as a consolation prize?   ;D

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« Reply #54 on: October 27, 2006, 11:17:41 AM »
I think it is most probably because of size, since Mary Adelaide used to wear some of the drop stones as earrings. And i think the mistress who was left the emeralds, not only recieved far more then their market value for them, but also her silence was bought with one of the brooches. I am not sure what? Possibly one of the round ones since the Duchess of Teck wore a stomacher with two round brooches and a drop. One of which now make the brooch Her Majesty wears often.
I found this interesting when i heard it, as it was never mentioned in Field's book.

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Re: Windsor Jewels Part 5
« Reply #55 on: October 27, 2006, 04:26:25 PM »
Hi, not to get of topic but for those that love jewels, check this website out.

http://www.djl.net/jewels/

Where the jewels ever sold? Imelda certainly had good taste! I can't help but like her, love her quotes ;D ;D

I can find a great deal to dislike about Imelda, being that she and her husband were ruthless thugs.  She had six hundred pairs of shoes while they stole money from the government and the people of her country starved.  Then she whined about how unfair it all was.

Bah!

At any rate, I too dislike the naked Vladimir tiara-maybe she could have left just one of the drops in? 


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« Reply #56 on: October 27, 2006, 08:35:21 PM »
I think one of these days the cambridge emerald brooch (taken by the mistress) would come back into the market.  ;)

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« Reply #57 on: October 28, 2006, 04:00:21 AM »
Unless of course it has already been sold and broken up - because its provenance was not known. That would indeed be a sad state of affairs.

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Re: Windsor Jewels Part 5
« Reply #58 on: October 28, 2006, 04:07:43 AM »
Hi, not to get of topic but for those that love jewels, check this website out.

http://www.djl.net/jewels/

Where the jewels ever sold? Imelda certainly had good taste! I can't help but like her, love her quotes ;D ;D

I can find a great deal to dislike about Imelda, being that she and her husband were ruthless thugs.  She had six hundred pairs of shoes while they stole money from the government and the people of her country starved.  Then she whined about how unfair it all was.


Well no ones perfect, and they did good things for the country too. When they were in power the Phillipines was second to Japan, now they are second to Indonesia.

And it wasn't 600 shoes it was 1,060.  ;D

Anyway, back to the topic :)
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« Reply #59 on: November 21, 2006, 05:07:11 AM »
Does anyone know the provenance of the Duchess of Cornwall's new necklace. HRH wore it last week. The dark stones look like sapphires to me, and it looks like it can be worn as a tiara as well. I do not recall it amongst Cookie's hoard, but the stones may have been reset from some in her old jar.