Re: From the Library of Congress Collection........ Archived Message
Posted by Franck  on September 9, 2012, 4:19 pm, in reply to "From the Library of Congress Collection........"
Dear Dawn,
Thank you for these information.
Just a question what is the open-petalled rose in pearls and diamonds from the Duke of York. Is it a an hair ornament ?
Could it be the aigrette with pear-shaped pearls and diamonds in the form of a bouquet of forget-me knots on Ursula's site ?
It would be interesting to know its origin.
Franck
--Previous Message--
: First of all, I was not able to find more
: information through the Library of Congress
: newspaper collection about the Ladies of
: England and County of Surrey
: necklace/tiaras.
:
: However, I found some other related
: information.
:
: Firstly, about the then-Duchess of York's
: wedding gifts, here's the information:
:
: [source: "The Evening World" (NYC,
: NY) dated July 6, 1893]
:
: ***from the Duke of York, the bride received
: a open-petalled rose in pearls and diamonds
: as well as a five-row pearl necklace to
: match.
:
: ***from the Duke and Duchess of Teck, the
: bride got a tiara, a necklet and a brooch of
: turquoises and diamonds.
:
: ***from the Princess of Wales (later Queen
: Alexandra), the bride received jewelry and
: precious stones worth $1,250,000 (in that
: year's value....not today's). Unfortunately,
: the newspaper did not specifically identify
: any jewel item from this gift.
:
: Secondly, from this source 'The Anaconda
: Standard' [Anaconda, Montana] dated July
: 9th, 1893, the bride received from the city
: of London these two items:
:
: ***a diamond bracelet worth 900 pounds
: (English money) and a silver dinner service
: worth 1,600 pounds (English money).
:
:
: *************************************************
:
: Now with a focus on guests who attended the
: Devonshire House Ball on July 2nd, 1897
: (from this source of "New York
: Tribune" [NYC] dated July 3rd, 1897):
:
:
: **The Duke of Devonshire (host)
: **The Duchess of Devonshire (hostess)
:
: **The Prince of Wales (later King Edward
: VII)
: **The Princess of Wales (later Queen
: Alexandra)
: **The Duke of York (later King George V)
: **The Duchess of York (later Queen Mary)
: **The Duke of Connaught
: **The Duchess of Connaught
: **Prince Charles of Denmark
: **Prince Christian (of Schleswig-Holstein, I
: assume)
: **Princess Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein
: **Colonel Hay (U.S. Ambassador to Great
: Britain)
: **Mrs. Hay
: **Lord Roseberry
: **Arthur Balfour
: **Mr. Asquith
: **Sir Horace Farquhar
: **The Countess of Warwick (as a lady of the
: Marie Antionette period)
: **Lady Tweedmouth (in an Elizabethan
: costume)
: **The Duke of Marlborough
: **The Duchess of Marlborough (dressed in
: white with emeralds and diamonds in the
: period of Louis XV)
: **The Duchess of Portland (clothed in the
: period of Louis XIII)
: **Lady William Beresford
: **Mrs. George Curzon
: **Mrs. Ogden Goelet (in white with diamond
: crescent and diamond stars)
: **Lord Charles Montague
: **Lord Crewe
: **Lord Stanley
: **Lady Mar
: **Lady St. Osborne
: **Lady de Grey
: **The Marquess San Vito
: **Lord Latham
: **The Marquise Hautpoul
: **Lady Cynthia Graham
: **Mrs. Rothschild
: **Comte de Mensdorf
: **The Earl of Durham (dressed as King Philip
: of Spain)
:
: Absent from this party were:
:
: **Families of Lord Chesham and the Duke of
: Westminster because of the accidental (with
: a pony) death of 9-year-old daughter of Lord
: Chesham.
:
: Note: if anyone is curious about Lord
: Chesham's daughter's death, see this link
: further down under Lord Chesham's
: name.....he himself also died in the riding
: accident in 1907:
: http://www.leighrayment.com/peers/peersC3.htm
:
:
: The Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) was
: dressed as Knight Hospitaller of Malta in
: black velvet with Maltese Crosses in white
: satin on his cloak and a satin brocade
: doublet. Velvet trunks slashed with black
: satin and high crowned hat with a large
: Maltese cross in diamonds in front and white
: ostrich plumes at the back. Around the hat
: was a silver chain. He also wore high boots
: which matched his costume.
:
:
:
: --Previous Message--
: Boffer,
:
: Thank you for these details. I will look up
: in the Library of Congress newspaper
: collection to see if there was any mention
: of either wedding gift the future Queen Mary
: got in 1893. I am curious if it could come
: up with details regarding the Devonshire
: House Ball.
:
: So Queen Mary was the only person in the
: Royal Family to have used both
: necklace/tiaras, then, and that those items
: were completely dismantled long before the
: end of reign of her husband.
:
: --Previous Message--
: Both 'Queen Mary's Ladies of England
: Necklace/Tiara' and 'Queen Mary's County of
: Surrey Necklace/Tiara' have been dismantled.
:
: Here are highly detailed and referenced
: notes in regards to each of these pieces.
:
: Queen Mary’s Ladies of England
: Necklace/Tiara
:
: This jewel was a wedding gift to Queen
: Mary in 1893 from “650 Ladies of
: England”,[1] and was made in Hunt and
: Roskell.[2] It was described in The Times,
: as a “pearl and diamond ornament … made up
: of scrolls wrought in diamonds over
: fleur-de-lis in larger stones. From each
: group hangs a drop-pearl, that falling from
: the centre cluster being fully an inch in
: length”.[3] It was exhibited at the
: Imperial Institute among some of her other
: wedding gifts, as photographed in The
: Graphic.[4] It was presented to Queen Mary
: on 24 June 1893, at 19, Ennismore Gardens by
: “the Ladies’ Committee”.[5]
:
: It was designed to be worn both as a
: tiara,[6] as a necklace,[7] and as a
: bandeau to trim the corsage of a gown, as it
: was worn to the Devonshire House Ball in
: 1897;[8] and it could also be detached “so
: as to be converted into several smaller
: ornaments”.[9] It was featured in Volume I
: of Queen Mary’s Photographic jewellery
: inventory,[10] and Queen Mary also kept a
: record of all the 650 ladies who had
: subscribed to the gift in a special
: presentation volume.[11]
:
: Queen Mary wrote to Lady Elizabeth
: Biddulph in June 1893, asking her to “accept
: and convey to the ladies of England my
: grateful thanks for the very beautiful
: necklace”.[12] She also wrote a letter to
: Lady Eva Greville in July of that year, in
: which she described the tiara as one of her
: “most valued wedding gifts as a precious
: proof of your good will and affection”.[13]
:
: However, by 1913 the decision was taken
: to dismantle this tiara. “12 pearl drops”
: from this tiara,[14] and the majority of
: the diamonds were used to create ‘Queen
: Mary’s Lover’s Knot Tiara’.[15] With the
: remaining “33 brilliants and 3 rose
: diamonds” being used to create ‘Queen Mary’s
: Greek Tiara’.[16]
:
: NOTES
: 1. Bow Bells, 7 July 1893, p. 32
: 2. Hugh Roberts, The Queen’s Diamonds,
: (London: Royal Collection Publications,
: 2012), p. 182
: 3. The Times, 24 June 1893, p. 14
: 4. The Graphic, 15 July 1893, p. 88
: 5. The Times, 28 June 1893, p. 10
: 6. Suzy Menkes, The Royal Jewels, (London:
: Grafton Books, 1985), p. 65; James
: Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, (London: George
: Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1959), pl. 21
: 7. Roberts, The Queen’s Diamonds, p. 146
: (RCIN 2808111)
: 8. Roberts, The Queen’s Diamonds, p. 138
: (RCIN 4926140)
: 9. The Times, 24 June 1893, p. 14
: 10. Roberts, The Queen’s Diamonds, p. 113;
: RA QM/PRIV/CC93, pl. 1, no. 6
: 11. Roberts, The Queen’s Diamonds, p. 182;
: RA QM/PRIV/CC64
: 12. The Times, 28 June 1893, p. 10
: 13. The Times, 10 July 1893, p. 6
: 14. Roberts, The Queen’s Diamonds, p. 182
: 15. Roberts, The Queen’s Diamonds, p. 182;
: GA Garrard RL3, fol. 94, 23 January 1914
: 16. Roberts, The Queen’s Diamonds, p. 164;
: GA Garrard RL3, fol. 95, 21 April 1914
:
:
: Queen Mary's County of Surrey
: Necklace/Tiara
:
: This tiara was a wedding-gift to Queen
: Mary in 1893 from the County of Surrey, and
: was presented to her by the Earl of
: Lovelace, in his capacity as Lord-Lieutenant
: of the county. It was described in The Times
: as being a tiara “composed entirely of
: brilliants of large size and … convertible
: at will into a necklace”.[1]
:
: It was illustrated among her wedding
: gifts in the Illustrated London News,[2]
: and was exhibited at the Imperial Institute
: among the three tiaras that featured in the
: exhibition of the wedding-gifts TRHs had
: received; a photograph from this exhibition
: featured in The Graphic.[3] This tiara also
: features in Queen Mary’s photographic
: jewellery inventory.[4]
:
: This piece was photographed being worn as
: a necklace, along with ‘Queen Mary’s
: Boucheron Loop Tiara’,[5] by W & D
: Downey, to mark the visit of the then Prince
: and Princess of Wales to India between 1905
: and 1906.[6] It was also photographed being
: worn as a tiara by Queen Mary with ‘Queen
: Mary’s Kapurthala Stomacher’.[7]
:
: It was dismantled in 1913, with the
: biggest “13 large brilliants” being used
: “furnish tops to [Queen Mary's] Girls of
: Great Britain [and Ireland] Tiara in place
: of pearls”, for the cost of £34.[8]
:
: The rest of the stones were used to
: create a new “Greek honeysuckle pattern
: Tiara”, ‘Queen Mary’s Greek Tiara’.[9]
:
: NOTES
:
: 1. The Times, 23 June 1893, p. 10
: 2. Illustrated London News, 6 July 1893
: 3. The Graphic, 15 July 1893, p. 88
: 4. Roberts, The Queen’s Diamonds, p. 139;
: RA QM/PRIV/CC93, pl. 5a, no. 1.
: 5. Roberts, The Queen’s Diamonds, p. 156
: (RCIN 2808148); Geoffrey Munn, Tiaras: A
: History of Splendor, (Woodbridge: Antique
: Collectors’ Club, 2001), pl. 109.
: 6. Munn, Tiaras, pl. 110
: 7. Roberts, The Queen’s Diamonds, p. 194
: (Note: This picture shows the tiara being
: worn in the base of the ‘Girls and Great
: Britain Tiara’).
: 8. Roberts, The Queen’s Diamonds, p. 136,
: GA Garrard RL3, fol. 95, 21 April 1914;
: 9. RA JEWEL/GARRARD/QM, fol. 80, no. 2.
: 10. Roberts, The Queen’s Diamonds, p. 164;
: GA Garrard RL3, fol. 95, 21 April 1914
:
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: --Previous Message--
: Thank you, Nellie! And those two
: tiara/necklaces aren't here anymore, is that
: correct? If so, did that happen before the
: end of reign of King George V or the end of
: reign of his son King George VI? Please
: refresh my memory about that.
:
: It would be nice to see these two
: tiara/necklaces in pictures in color
: (instead of black and white).
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: In your first pic I believe that would be
: the Ladies of England tiara/necklace.
: In your last, the Surrey tiara/necklace.
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