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what a great surprise, a very seldom item of jewel from the early 19th century is coming up to the light…
Grand duchess Stephanie von Baden | Emeralds Grand Duchess Stephanie de Beauharnais| Royal Imperial Emerald Necklace Collier Earrings| Mrs Robert Hudson Viscountess Hudson
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Diamond Spike and Collet Tiara Princess von Sayn Wittgenstein Berleburg |Carina Axelsson | Royal Jewels
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Fürstenberg Tiara |Pearl and Diamond Fleur de Lys Diadem| Princess Paula zu Fürstenberg nee Countess Königsegg
Wedding Present to the Countess Irma Schönborn-Buchheim in 1889 from the grooms mother, „Mama Fürstenberg“ Princess Leontine of Fürstenberg née Kevenhüller-Metsch.
Natural Pearl and Diamond Tiara | Fürstin Irma von Fürstenberg Diadem |Princess Fürstenberg
Eleven diamond motives in the design of a double fleur-de-lys, twenty-three pear-shaped pearls (three larger ones) are all fixed on an old-cut diamond frame.
This is the way that tiara must have been worn at the imperial court in Vienna and Berlin, by its then owner the princess of Fürstenberg née countess Irma of Schönborn Buchheim
The Savoy Aosta tiara | Wedding Tiara and Diadem of Countess Margherita von und zu Arco Zinneberg
Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, Grand Duchess of Hesse by Rhine, wearing her pearl jewels – the pearl string collier with a diamond pearl clasp, a pair of pear shaped ear pendants a pearl brooch a pearl pendant, from her wedding gifts, later called the „Battenberg Pearls“, it’s known the royal pearls are presented from Queen Victoria, to her daughter Princess Alice the Grand Duchess of Hesse, as wedding gift and later presents.
A small gold tiara is in her hair, probably the wedding gift from the Duchess of Sachsen-Coburg ,notice the emerald clasp on the wrist, we had in a post before as center of a necklace and I will do an addition about it, as well as the emerald drop on the side.
The emerald suite, emerald pendant, emerald brooches, emerald stomacher, emerald tiara , emerald necklace, emerald medieval diadem, emerald pear shaped large pendant, was not personal property of the Grand Duchesses, this was part of the Hessian Jewelry Treasure.
Princess Alice wore this part of the royal jewels as a clasp on a pearl necklace with the large pear shaped pendant. It was later altered and arranged with diamonds, in the medieval suite with matching tiara, an impressive circlet of cabochon-cut stones set in clusters and rose diamonds in 1905 from Koch, Frankfurt made by Kreuter, Hanau.
Princess Alix of Hessen, lent it for one costume ball in the year 1893, it was not her own.