Vincent Meylan has a superb photo of the necklace in Christie's. The Jewellery Archives Revealed, p 12 and notes (on page 13) that when the jewel was presented for auction by Christie's in 1971 there was a "...long letter from a previous owner explaining how it had been passed from one generation to the next..." I wonder what happened to the detailed information said to have been included in the Sotheby's sale in 1937?
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the sale of the Darbhanga jewels is that Claude Arpel endeavoured to buy them as he had examined them (at the request of the Maharajah) in 1954. See https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/special-report/story/19820815-darbhanga-provides-a-classic-study-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-indias-feudal-ruling-class-772064-2013-10-04
Would he have left the necklace intact? Or dismantled it?
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