Puzzle 4- no bandeau base on the original "Girls" tiara ??? Archived Message
Posted by Nellie on May 29, 2012, 6:17 am, in reply to "QD - 3 Puzzles - Queen Mary necklace/tiara wedding gifts - Surrey and QV"
I am having grave doubts that Queen Mary's Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara [Girls] was originally made with that loznge-pattern bandeau base. I have doubted it over the years, actually. Because it now seems as though one and the same lozenge-pattern bandeau base was added to the Surrey tiara/necklace [Surrey], the QV wedding gift necklace/tiara [QV gift], and the Girls. Page 139 shows the Girls in the photo inventory with the bandeau base and the caption says it is in original form. But I would like to see the design drawing for the Girls which is mentioned in note 1 page 136. The QV wedding gift necklace/tiara shown in the photo inventory on page 191 with a bandeau base added does not seem to be in its original form. Do we know when the photo inventory was started? For alterations made to the Girls in 1914, it says on page 136 - "Either at the same date or possibly later Queen Mary removed the lozenge-pattern bandeau from the base ... " But if it is the same bandeau as added to the Surrey and to the QV gift, then Queen Mary had removed the bandeau from the Girls much earlier than 1914 - or perhaps it was not even attached before then. Queen Mary is wearing the Surrey with the band in the pic dressed in black in mourning for Queen Victoria (much earlier than 1914). See page 194 and below in http://members2.boardhost.com/royal-jewels/msg/1338140726.html.
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- QD - 3 Puzzles - Queen Mary necklace/tiara wedding gifts - Surrey and QV - Nellie May 28, 2012, 10:14 pm
- Puzzle 1 - bandeau base added to QV - Nellie May 28, 2012, 10:15 pm
- Puzzle 2 - same bandeau base for Surrey and for QV ? - Nellie May 28, 2012, 10:18 pm
- Puzzle 3 - photo session switches ? - Nellie May 28, 2012, 10:20 pm
- Puzzle 4- no bandeau base on the original "Girls" tiara ??? - Nellie May 29, 2012, 6:17 am
- Re: QD - 5 Puzzles - Queen Mary bandeau - schermsd May 29, 2012, 3:33 pm
- QD - 6 - those pesky bands - Nellie May 30, 2012, 12:24 am
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