History of Famous Jewels and Collections: Re: A wish for 2019 - QEII -opens the vaults! Sapphire sautoir

A very belated thank you to you all for your replies. Some great ideas and things I had forgotten about.

The mention of the Queen Mothers Sautoir leads me to think that there was also a Pearl one as well as the Sapphire and Diamond one.

I suspect that we have had 2 queens quite sentimental and not really into jewels in a row.
I fear for us that Camilla will continue this trend as she seems to keep wearing the same pieces despite having a very extensive collection.

Oh what is in the vaults at BP...one can only imagine.

I suspect that there is a lot of Greville inheritance pieces still unsighted plus a lot of historical pieces never seen or not seen publicly or at least like the Greville Emerald necklace not seen for years.

Mike

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I would like to see the two greville emerald necklaces worn this year !! and also for many reasons I would love to see the Queen Mother's sapphire sautoir worn by the Duchess of Cornwall or the Duchess of Cambridge !

and also the lozenge or the sapphire tiara from QM !

Franck

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I am not sure about the small sapphire brooch (the one Queen Mary gave to QEQM as a wedding present)

Has anyone ever spotted it being worn by QEQM? I don't recall it, and have often wondered if it too may have been dismantled and been used in the sapphire sautoir. The wedding gift necklace had a few good sized sapphires but the sautoir seems to have had more.

Wedding gift necklace

Sapphire sautoir

Detail - blurry but shows the larger sapphires, if not a good view of the sautoir.