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Re: Marlborough jewels. Query about the tiara
Dear Beth, you are right. This is definitely Boucheron. The coronet was bought by William Kissam Vanderbilt for his wife Alva in 1890. Actually it is rather similar in style to the coronet bought by the future emperor Nicolas II for Alexandra feodorova, also at Boucheron, a few years later. These coronet were called « serre chignon » as they were usually placed on the top of the very sophisticated hairdo of the ladies of that time. The coronet with 2 ropes of big pearls were the wedding gift of Alva Vanderbilt to her daughter, Consuelo, when she married the duke of Marlborough in 1895. Consuelo herself brought the coronet back to Boucheron in 1913 in order to have it transformed in a bandeau. Huge chignon were out of fashion then.
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