Re: Queen Fabiola's necklace with green stones Archived Message
Posted by JohnPete  on August 18, 2012, 11:52 am, in reply to "Queen Fabiola's necklace with green stones"
I'm no gemologist, but try as I might I can't find any images online of emeralds with such a dark hue. Even the poorest quality emeralds I've seen in cheap stores here in the USA have a lively green color. There IS another photo we've seen on this board and others where the Franco gift is worn in it's crown configuration with very green, emerald like stones. Likewise, there is an image of her with very bright red ruby-like stones.
I think these are onyx, jet or black coral? Why not she already had aquamarine, ruby (?) and emerald (?) stones to interchange. If I were her, I would have acquired turquoise and opal too!
As for this green stone necklace, I like it. It's very unique and I suspect it is not an inexpensive piece. Perhaps one of those lovely green stones surrounded by their diamonds could be detached and worn as a brooch.
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: Looking at the gift received by HM the Queen
: Elizabeth II from the province British
: Columbia, Canada, the jade necklace, I
: thought to the one owned by Queen Fabiola of
: Belgium. I read several times that they are
: not emeralds, and in fact they do not look
: like emeralds.
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: Also in the book by Christophe Vachaudez,
: concerning the stones of the tiara, he does
: not confirm that they are emeralds (they are
: very dark).
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