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    Queen Mary. A brooch to identify. Edited to fix typo Archived Message

    Posted by Beth on July 16, 2018, 6:40 am

    According to Roberts in The Queen's Diamonds p. 210 the second of the bracelets for Queen Mary's chain link choker was made in 1935.** It was designed to incorporate a brooch containing a 9 and three quarter carat diamond which was made in 1934. The brooch was detachable.

    I am not sure if we have ever spotted the brooch being worn separately, but I will do a separate post about one possibility.

    The brooch section of the chain link choker/bracelets.


    I had catalogued the following image as showing the detachable brooch from the chain link choker, but recently realised that I was mistaken.

    Does anyone have ideas about what the brooch could be?

    From Trooping of the Colour 1935



    Detail


    **Edit: I had initially had a typo and wrote that the second bracelet was made in 1936. It was made in 1935.

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