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    Re: Some thoughts Archived Message

    Posted by Jos on February 5, 2014, 2:35 am, in reply to "Some thoughts"

    Questions, questions indeed. As far as I know we only have information about some larger stones, see Anna's correspondence with her mother (published by S.J. Jackman) and Brus. But we will never know what they looked like.
    As for Anna's last will, she only mentions "la garniture en saphirs et diamants" without specification.


    --Previous Message--
    : The parure shown by Brus shows many large
    : sapphires in various shapes. We have
    : discussed this before. Where did they all
    : go?
    : Except for the (2) sapphires in the bow
    : brooch now discussed I can't think of any
    : Jewels made after 1881 that contain large
    : sapphires. The Sapphire bow brooch
    : containing a massive oval sapphire was
    : already worn by Queen Emma as early as 1879.
    : The Sapphire tiara and bracelets (made in
    : 1881) apparently alo contain 'new'
    : sapphires. I assume that is because the
    : Jewels were ordered before Prince Hendrik
    : died and King Willem III received the
    : Sapphires? The Wedding Gift Parure contains
    : many smaller sized Sapphires. That only
    : leaves - possibly - the large oval sapphire
    : set in diamonds that was worn (amongst
    : others) by Queen Maxima on 30-4-2013. But
    : some say it is actually the oval sapphire
    : taken from Queen Emma's bow brooch.
    : Questions, questions......
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    : --Previous Message--
    : Very interesting, Erik. Is this information
    : based on the style of the brooch?
    :
    : I always have doubted that the brooch was
    : made for Princess Amalia since René Brus
    : states that Amalia wore Queen Anna's parure
    : while it only later was altered for Prince
    : Hendrik's second wife Marie. Yet the drawing
    : of Marie's parure which Brus adds (although
    : with incorrect caption, I guess) shows a
    : parure completely different from the
    : Orange-Nassau jewels. (Brus, pp. 74-78).
    : Hendrik died one year later. So the sapphire
    : jewels as we know them now were most likely
    : all created for Emma and perhaps Wilhelmina.
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    : --Previous Message--
    : Indeed, it was made for Wilhelmina. But I
    : don't know whether a jewel with this
    : sapphire was broken up for this brooch, or
    : was lying around in a box.
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