In his book on Van Cleef and Arpels Vincent Meylan notes that the necklace is a nineteenth-century creation, probably by an Iranian jeweller and that the red stones are spinels. It is a very interesting jewel. I recollect that Vincent Meylan has a colour photo of the necklace in his book -- perhaps one of the photos of the necklace comes from that?
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