Queen Victoria's famous diamond necklace and tear dropped earrings have an interesting history. Victoria had to hand over to the Duke of Cumberland, king of Hanover in 1857 a chunk of her inherited jewelry. This angered and upset her immensely. She ordered the royal jewelers to make carbon copies of the lost jewelry. This exercise was carried out by using precious stones from "swords and useless things", as put by her. This necklace needed 28 stones which were got from 2 Garter badges and a sword hilt. This necklace has 25 cushion shaped brilliant cut diamonds set in silver and gold. The central drop shaped pendant is set in platinum. The largest stone weighs 11.25 carats. The earrings are made of 2 large cushion cut stones and smaller diamonds. The hanging tear drop shaped pendants are of different sizes. One is 7 carats while the larger one is 12 carats. Link
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Beautiful Jewelery..
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I Spent quiet a few moments looking at the jewelery and than decided to do a test on myself. Which is Indian jewelry designed and which is Pakistani jewelry designed. I have not yet come to any conclusion.
nice blog on diamond jwellery. diamonds are the best stone to make designer jewellery. thanks for sharing.
Queen Victoria's necklace is actually very beautiful. To buy diamond pendants online visit Kisna.
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