Re: Dutch sapphire tiara & other treasures from the Royal Vault Archived Message
Posted by John in Assen on August 29, 2013, 5:57 pm, in reply to "Dutch sapphire tiara & other treasures from the Royal Vault"
First of all: Thanks ErikS for sharing. It's a gorgous photo of a gorgous Tiara. I agree with Jos, that the openness of the British and Scandinavian courts probarbly has a lot to do with this. I mean: the past decade so many wonderful books have come unto the market about Tiaras. Some of which are referred to as standardworks or even "the bible about tiaras"...(Munn). In all these books magnificant close up photos are to be seen of Tiaras in posession of the British, Norwegian, Swedish and Luxembourg Royal houses (a.o.) but never has there in all these books been a photo of one of the items from the Dutch royal collection... I think in hindsight the Dutch court also finds that a bit of an ommission. But they know ofcourse that they are solely to blame for that themselves. So they are now gradually changing their position in this.
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