History of Famous Jewels and Collections: Re: How Chaumet's archivists track down long-lost jewels

Thank you Janet for this link,

I believe - it's the same with the Khedive Tiara, which is not in the archive of Cartier.

But in the archive of Kreuter &Co Hanau/Koch, exactly with all details of the stones, sizes and weight and details of the work masters.

Cartier take it over....but there are no sketches and invoice or plasters in Paris.

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The Daily Telegraph has removed its paywall this weekend to protest against attempts to stymie the free press by left wing climate protesters preventing newspapers being able to leave printing factories.

There was an article about Chaumet published a few months ago which I read in print but can now share.

The most fascinating things about it:

i) Chaumet's archive has 350,000 photos of finished jewels!!!!! They are in the "process of digitising every document, a task that's expected to go on for a decade." Let us all pray these are released!!!!!;

ii) As evidence of what Chaumet's archivists do, the staggeringly beautiful (in my view at least) tiara of Countess Mountbatten worn at two Coronations was for decades thought to be by Cartier but Chaumet were able to cross reference their archive and identify that it actually was one of theirs! For reasons unknown the owner prior to Lady Mountbatten took it to Cartier who sold it to Lady Mountbatten with a Cartier box...resulting in the assumption it was a Cartier creation!

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/luxury/jewellery/treasure-hunters-chaumets-archivists-track-long-lost-jewels/