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    Re: Queen Elizabeth II and unknown to me brooch Archived Message

    Posted by LDMJ on July 10, 2016, 5:00 am, in reply to "Re: Queen Elizabeth II and unknown to me brooch"


    Oh I agree with you Beth! It was only by magnifying the photograph many times over that I could see it myself, even then I had second thoughts! It is a beautiful brooch.
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    : Many thanks LDMJ. I began to wonder when I saw
    : this photo of HM at the Chelsea Flower Show
    : in 1955 -
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    : When I searched for images of the wattle
    : brooch the following two caught my eye as in
    : many ways the details captured are similar
    : to the 1960 photo. Of course it is easier to
    : make out details in the colour photos. The
    : original had me really perplexed.
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    : The fact that HM wears this brooch in two
    : different orientations also confuses me
    : unless the photo is in colour.
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