Re: Queen Mary and unknown emerald brooches (no 1 ) Archived Message
Posted by Franck   on March 18, 2016, 5:27 am, in reply to "Re: Queen Mary and unknown emerald brooches (no 1 )"
Thank you for this kind photo !
She had also a similar emerald and diamon brooch (photo in Menkes' book).
I do hope that Queen Elizabeth has theses brooches !
Last but not least she has worn on least 10 emerald and diamond brooches !
Franck
--Previous Message--
: Thank you Arthur,
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: Your suggestion had me scurrying to look at
: Roberts' enlarged photo of the Women of
: Hampshire brooch on page 150 of his book.
:
: I suspect that the photo from the ILN 1935
: does not show the Hampshire brooch set with
: an emerald.
:
: As everyone knows, I don't have the keenest
: eye but, to my eye, the setting of the
: diamonds above the emerald is different from
: the setting of the upper central diamonds of
: the Hampshire brooch. (I am assuming that
: Arthur was envisaging that the side diamond
: drops were removed)
:
: Unfortunately, I don't have a photo of the
: Hampshire brooch to post.
:
: I hope someone else does.
:
: --Previous Message--
: Could it be the Women of Hampshire Pearl
: Brooch, with the original pearl pendant
: replaced by an emerald? I think the design
: could be a match.
:
: We know, thanks to Hugh Roberts, that Queen
: Mary had the pear-shaped drop pearl of the
: Women of Hampshire brooch removed in 1913,
: along with other pear-shaped pearls from her
: jewel collection, in order to create the
: upper gallery of upright pearls of the new
: Cambridge Lovers Knot tiara.
:
: It would make sense that Queen Mary had the
: missing pearl in the Women of Hampshire
: brooch replaced with another pendant, until
: the missing pearl was returned back to the
: brooch in the mid-1930s.
:
: I think that Princess Marina, Duchess of
: Kent, later wore a similar pendant made of a
: large round cabochon emerald. That could be
: a match.
:
: (Sorry, I currently do not have access to my
: files, and therefore can not post pictures.
: I will try to do it later).
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