I'm a bit late to see the last two photos in this thread - can someone direct me to where they may be available please?


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: Van Cleef & Arpels didn't just lend it to
: royalty, they used the tiara as promotional
: tool, lending it out and putting it in
: advertising campaigns. I keep seeing it
: labeled as Empress Josephine's Coronation
: Tiara but it very clearly is not the tiara
: worn by Empress Josephine at her coronation.
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: 1949
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: 1949? - Maria Magdalena of Leuchtenberg,
: great-granddaughter of the 4th Duke of
: Leuchtenberg
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: I don't know the year for this one but I
: think the woman on the left is Jill Corey
: not Cory. She is an American singer who was
: popular in the 1950s.
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: 1956 - Nancy Berg
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: 1963 - Princess Grace of Monaco
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: 1967 - Rose Kennedy at the Red Cross Ball in
: Palm Beach, Florida
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: 1969 - on display in New York City - The
: caption reads "DIADEME OF L'IMPERATRICE
: JOSEPHINE. The tiara with 1040 diamonds
: offered by emperor Napoleon 1st to empress
: Josephine and she wore the day of the
: coronation, private collection of Van Cleef
: and Arpels, June 12, 1969."
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: 1978 - Jane Anderson Dudley, who was the
: wife of the American ambassador to Denmark,
: at the Red Cross Ball in Palm Beach,
: Florida.
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: 1988 - I think the occasion that the
: Countess of Paris wore the tiara was the
: evening before the wedding of her
: granddaughter Mathilde to Count Erich von
: Waldburg zu Zeil und Trauchburg
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: I recall reading that Van Cleef & Arpels
: sold this tiara presumably after doubts were
: raised about it belonging to Empress
: Josephine but I can't find where I read it.
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