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    Re: QD: Queen Mary Love Trophy Collar Archived Message

    Posted by Boffer on May 27, 2012, 3:25 am, in reply to "QD: Queen Mary Love Trophy Collar"

    Yes. This is the love Trophy Collar. It features in Munn, and Roberts and was worn by Queen Mary to Edward VII's coronation, along with the Boucheron Loop Tiara and Surrey Necklace Tiara.

    Here are the now very detailed notes that I have created on it:

    Queen Mary's Love Trophy Collar
    For her seventeenth birthday in 1884, Queen Mary received from her mother “diamond star earrings”.[1] And upon the occasion of her confirmation a year later in 1885, Queen Mary received, from her grandmother the Duchess of Cambridge, “some beautiful diamond stars”,[2] which were a set of seven 12-pointed stars.[3] Her aunt, the Grand-Duchess of Mecklenberg-Strelitz also gave her a diamond spray brooch upon the occasion of her confirmation, which Queen Mary described as a “beautiful diamond brooch”.[4]
    These three gifts were later dismantled, and the diamonds used to create a “scroll and ribbon pattern collar”,[5] which was subsequently dismantled in 1901, and the stones used to create this ‘Queen Mary’s Love Trophy Collar’.[6]
    Roberts describes this collar as being “formed of seven brilliant-set panels, each with an amatory of bow, quiver and torch in a laurel-wreath oval suspended from a ribbon tie, framed by foliate brilliant-set bands”.[7]
    Although Munn attributes this “garland style” collar to Cartier,[8] no reference to it can be found in their archives.[9] Nor is there any reference to it in the Garrard archives or ledgers, however Roberts believes an attribution to this firm is most likely;[10] as it appears in the Garrard ledges in 1902, when the firm supplied four diamonds, and made repairs to the collar.[11]

    Notes:
    [1] Roberts, The Queen’s Diamonds, p. 154; RA JEWEL/GARRARD/QM, fol. 32; Queen Mary to Prince Adolphus of Teck, quoted in, Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, p. 136
    [2] Roberts, The Queen’s Diamonds, p. 154; RA JEWEL/GARRARD/QM, fol. 18; Queen Mary to the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, quoted in, Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, p. 163
    [3] Roberts, The Queen’s Diamonds, p. 154
    [4] Roberts, The Queen’s Diamonds, p. 154; RA JEWEL/GARRARD/QM, fol. 19; Queen Mary, quoted in, Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, p. 164
    [5] Roberts, The Queen’s Diamonds, p. 154; RA JEWEL/GARRARD/QM, fol. 47
    [6] Roberts, The Queen’s Diamonds, p. 154
    [7] Ibid., p. 154
    [8] Munn, Tiaras, p. 133
    [9] Roberts, The Queen’s Diamonds, p. 154
    [10] Ibid., p. 154
    [11] Roberts, The Queen’s Diamonds, p. 154; (GA Garrard RL51, fol. 266, 20 January 1902)


    --Previous Message--
    : I confess that I have NO IDEA which
    : necklace/collar this is, as referred to in
    : Boffer's post of 8 May. Might it be the
    : large diamond choker which I believe she
    : wore to the coronation of King Edward VII
    : (along with the Boucheron tiara which was
    : later dismantled)?
    :


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