Posted by mauriz on October 25, 2012, 3:02 am, in reply to "Re: another closeup"
--Previous Message-- : : Odd? I see it very much in the style of the : time. : The short loop defined the length it hung, : The long loop then drooped a little lower on : each side of that.
That would be one possibility. The other - and more in style with fashion at the time the Queen Mother received the gift - would have been one long chain around the neck and the heart shaped amethyst attached similar to a clip.
I don't think the chain was open as in the second picture, but I tend to believe the way the necklace was displayed in its box was meant to mirror the heart shaped amethyst and might be misleading about the way it was actually worn. A flexibly attached "clip" might as well explain the odd way it was attached at the shortened necklace worn by the DoC.