Tilia C.
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How exciting that the auction has been discovered. The catalogue says that the tiara is mounted in gold and silver. No rose gold is mentioned and in the catalogue pictures the gold definitely looks yellow. They mention rose cut and old mine cut diamonds, which explains the lack of sparkle.
I am a bit surprised by the rubies, because she already has the ruby parure. But then these rubies are so unobtrusive that they hardly show. And maybe she thought that this was too good an opportunity to miss.
I am a bit surprised by the rubies, because she already has the ruby parure. But then these rubies are so unobtrusive that they hardly show. And maybe she thought that this was too good an opportunity to miss.
As to the auction catalogue 'the necklace was originally used as a tiara'. To me the design virtually shouts 'tiara', so I don't think it surprising that CP Mary saw the tiara potential there.Well done for finding the pictures and well done to Mary for spotting the potential of the necklace because I must admit if I was looking at the catalogue I would have thought "nice" and then turned to the next page.