I wish she could rummage around in the UK vaults!
I've never really appreciated steel jewellery before but an Italian jewellery company is selling a steel parure of jewels and I was realy impressed by the beauty and elegance of these pieces.
Aside from the Swedish collection, I dont think I know of any other steel jewels.
"An extraordinary cut-steel parure, comprising a draperie necklace, a tiara, a bracelet, two belts, one buckle, spectacles for theatre and one cross-pendant. Formerly property of a Countess. England, 1830 c.a.
From around 1720 cut steel was manufactured in Woodstock, England. France served as a major export market but this was interrupted when war broke out 1793. The popularity of cut steel in France may in part have been due to Sumptuary Laws which limited who could wear precious metals and diamonds. Manufacture of cut steel within France is attested from 1780 and by the start of the 1820s France had a large amount of domestic production of cut steel.[With the end of the Napoleonic wars British produces again and started exporting to France. and Ital.yThe fashion for cut steel jewellery in France was probably given a boost when Napoleon married his second wife Marie Louise of Habsbourg and presented her with a parure consisting of cut steel jewellery. The quality and use of cut steel jewellery declined throughout the second half of the 19th century with stamped strips replacing individual rivets and pieces becoming increasingly flimsy, the final production ending in the 1930s.
A Cut-Steel Tiara is today in the Swedish Royal Family collection"
https://www.gioielleriapennisi.com/products/extraordinary-georgian-cut-steel-parure-with-tiara-1830-c-a
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