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    Re: QEII ruby brooches you unidentified... Archived Message

    Posted by GillW on April 16, 2014, 12:42 am, in reply to "Re: QEII ruby brooches you unidentified..."

    Not from that day, I'm afraid. It was only after the WIlliamsburg sighting that one day I suddenly "connected the dots" (or gems!) as you might say and it was then obvious it was the same brooch. I've looked long & hard but nothing clearer has come to light, to my knowledge.

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    : Thanks GillW
    : I don't think I would have guessed that it
    : was the Sri Lankan floral spray brooch. I
    : did not think that it was that big so I went
    : back to pictures from Williamsburg in 2007
    : and low and behold it is that big !
    : I guess it is just the angle of the picture
    : that sort of distorts it.
    : This pic I uploaded was from a 2005 trip to
    : Alberta and it rained...a lot! HM always
    : had her rain coat on so you never saw the
    : brooch. The picture I did find was when she
    : presented the insignia of a Knight of
    : Justice in the Most Venerable Order of the
    : Hospital of St John of Jerusalem to the then
    : Lt. Govenor of Alberta Norman Kwong.
    : Do you have any other pictures that show the
    : brooch off any better?
    : Thanks again.
    : Cheers!
    : Bryce
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    : Bryce, the brooch on the caramel coat is the
    : one we initially called the Williamsburg
    : Bouquet (but it has since been renamed
    : following some research by others into the
    : provenance, but I can't remember what we use
    : now!!)
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    : Joye
    : A couple of ruby brooches that you did not
    : mention were the Tudor Rose and the York
    : Rose Bracelet (the center flower can be worn
    : as a brooch). I do not think that QEII has
    : worn it this way but Queen Mary did.
    : Other brooches with rubies in them would be
    : the basket of flowers (birth of Prince
    : Charles), the bowl of fruit, the South
    : African peacock, the blue and pink double
    : flower I think has some rubies in the
    : centre. HM was given a brooch rendering of
    : the Province of Ontario coat of arms which
    : has 11 rubies (18 emeralds and 172 diamonds
    : set in platinum).
    :
    : This brooch may as well have rubies but I
    : have not been able to identify it.
    :
    : Hope this helps with your list.
    :
    : Cheers!
    : Bryce
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    : Qatar 1996 gift during State visit - Arab
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    : While checking for info on The Crown Rubies,
    : I found that Fields wrote that QEII had 6
    : ruby brooches.
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    : No. 1 modern ruby br commissioned by QEII
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