Re: anonymous trade workshop Archived Message
Posted by Nellie on March 5, 2016, 9:30 pm, in reply to "Re: Smaller Cullinans as presented to QM in 1910"
Oh I value my copy too. There is so much we learned for the first time. About the anonymous trade workshop that was involved in making settings for various Cullinans. Source The Crown Jewels 1998: That workshop specialised in trade commissions, and had made Queen Alexandra's Crown for Carringtons, also the Imperial Crown of India for Garrard. About Cullinans III and IV, "It is fair to conjecture that the anonymous trade workshop already cited was responsible for setting the two smaller diamonds, since its craftsmen had earlier made similar mounts for the two largest stones." I wonder if we will ever know who the people were.
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