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As I said in my post, the details of the weight of each of the 7 Wladimir emeralds set in Barbara hutton’s Indian necklace have never been published before. It is one of the missing details about these stones and I publish them in that new book. The whole purpose of my post was to explain that the dates don’t fit. There is a six months gap between the moment miss Taylor wears her necklace for the first time, and the moment these emeralds were sold, one by one by VCA. I publish all the dates in that new book. Actually I also mention in my post that I don’t tell the whole story of these emeralds, as it would not fit in an Instagram post. The original Wladimir necklace had 10 square emeralds an 9 cabochons drops. Obviously the cabochons drops could not have been used in Elisabeth Taylor’s necklace. And actually some of them were kept by the family. Grand duke Boris’s wife had three of them mounted on a pendant and a pair of earrings by Boucheron around 1930. I discovered that while I was researching my Boucheron book. I have no idea what happened to them. It is possible that two of these drops were bought by Barbara Hutton and given to her daughter in law many years later. Coming back to the 10 square emeralds, the one on the clasp is not important because it was too small. The 9 remaining were bought by Barbara Hutton. Two of them were sold at Christie’s Saint Moritz in 1990. They were not mounted. That leaves 7 Emeralds which were mounted in 1947 by Cartier on a new Indian necklace. These are the ones VCA bought from her in 1967. Appart from the mounting of the three drops by Boucheron and the weight of each of the 7 emeralds and the dates of their sales which are new informations, all the other details concerning these jewels are to be found in the Best jewelry book ever written : Cartier by Hans Naddelhoffer.
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