--Previous Message-- : Thank you for finding this description, : Baxter. You have solved the mystery for us. : Now that you have pointed out the shape of : the moulding, it all seems so clear. I : wonder when and why this moulded section was : made as the photo shows the earrings and : brooch -- although I doubt if these are : fitted into moulded sections -- but not the : extension added by QEQM, and the moulded : section does not seem to fit the necklace as : worn by either queen. Because of this, it : would not have provided secure storage for : either version of the necklace. : Re photos in Roberts. I should have taken : the time to look this morning, as the photo : of Queen Alexandra as a bride on page 86 : shows that the necklace was not then longer. : Roberts on page 82 has the older photo I was : referring to. : Of even more interest to our present : discussion is the photo on page 93 showing a : portrait of QA as a young Princess of Wales : wearing a pearl and diamond brooch with a : drop pearl. The shape of the drop suggests : to me that this is the central element from : her necklace. (I suspect the grayish colour : of all the pearls may be artistic licence). : : EDIT. On page 88 Roberts says that the : central pearl and diamond element in the : wedding brooch is detachable. On page 92 he : says that the pearl and diamond brooch with : drop pearl, as depicted in the portrait on : page 93, is probably the central section of : her wedding brooch. : I disagree, as the shape of the drop pearl : and the two diamonds above it seem to me to : more closely resemble the drop pearl and two : diamonds from the central element of the : necklace. Obviously, as Airgette's : information tells us, Queen Alexandra did : once wear her wedding brooch with a pearl : and diamond brooch with a drop pearl. : :