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Antoinette Bonner (1892–1920) was a Romanian American jewel thief. Acting as an agent for diamond merchants from New York's Maiden Lane , she sold jewelry to wealthy society women and came to be known as the "Queen of Diamonds".
The collection consisted of a ring, a pendant necklace and a bracelet that was worth a lot more than she expected. The appraiser said, "The ring with the fine ruby and the very very white diamonds ...
The appraiser said the ring dated back to the 1920s or 1930s ... and would be conservatively worth $25 to $30,000 retail. The woman had just one word for the reveal: 'Amazing.' She repeated it a ...
The Marie Antoinette Diamond Earrings are a pair of diamond earrings on permanent display in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., United States. They are so named for their assumed provenance: that they were commissioned by King Louis XVI of France for his wife, Queen Marie Antoinette .
The most common setting for engagement rings is the solitaire prong setting, which was popularized by Tiffany & Co. in 1886 and its six-claw prong setting design sold under the "Tiffany setting" trademark. The modern favorite cut for an engagement ring is the brilliant cut, which provides the maximum amount of sparkle to the gemstone. [46]
A 300-carat necklace, whose diamonds have been linked to a scandal involving the last French queen Marie Antoinette, sold Wednesday for nearly $5 million at a Sotheby's auction in Geneva.
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