Two diamond bracelets once owned by the queen of France, Marie Antoinette, have sold at auction in Switzerland for more than $8m(£5.8m). They were bought by an anonymous telephone bidder.
In November, a 300-carat necklace will be auctioned off at Sotheby's auction house in London. The stones in the necklace may have come from a necklace that belonged to Marie Antoinette.
An antique diamond necklace worn at two British coronations, which experts believe is linked to an historic scandal involving ...
Thank you, Stuart. If this was owned by Marie Antoinette, its value would be in excess of $500,000. ♪ ♪ GUEST: I bought them at an auction house in the '80s, maybe early '90s; it's been so ...
Sotheby's plans to auction a rare 18th-century diamond necklace in Geneva on November 11. Comprising around 500 diamonds and potentially linked to Marie Antoinette, the piece is estimated to fetch ...
Beyond that, little is known of the necklace, including who designed it and for whom it was commissioned, although the auction house ... and eventually Marie-Antoinette’s death, said Sotheby ...
The piece is also thought to be linked to Marie Antoinette, as some jewellery historians ... The exact origin story of the necklace going for auction is not recorded, but it is thought to have ...
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It is thought that some of the diamonds may have ties to the famous “Affair of the Necklace,” a scandal that played a role in the events leading to the French Revolution and Marie Antoinette ... its ...
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