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2. Affair of the Diamond Necklace - Wikipedia

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   The Affair of the Diamond Necklace ( French: Affaire du collier de la reine, "Affair of the Queen's Necklace") was an incident from 1784 to 1785 at the court of King Louis XVI of France that involved his wife, Queen Marie Antoinette . The Queen's reputation, already tarnished by gossip, was further sullied by the false accusation that she had ...

3. Tiffany & Co. - Wikipedia

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   Tiffany & Company, Union Square, Manhattan, storage area with porcelain, c. 1887. Tiffany & Co. was founded in 1837 by Charles Lewis Tiffany and John B. Young, [ 15] in New York City, as a "stationery and fancy goods emporium", with the help of Charles Tiffany's father, who financed the store for only $1,000 with profits from a cotton mill. [ 16]

4. List of scams - Wikipedia

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   Examples include the diamond hoax of 1872 and the Bre-X gold fraud of the mid-1990s. This trick was featured in the HBO series Deadwood, when Al Swearengen and E. B. Farnum trick Brom Garret into believing gold is to be found on the claim Swearengen intends to sell him. This con was also featured in Sneaky Pete.

5. Comtesse de Vendome - Wikipedia

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   Comtesse de Vendome. The Comtesse de Vendôme is a diamond necklace composed of 116 diamonds, [ 1] including a centerpiece 125- carat diamond, [ 2] and an estimated value of approximately 31 million dollars (in 2004). [ 3] The necklace was stolen from the Tokyo jewelry boutique Le Supre-Diamant Couture de Maki on March 5, 2004 by thieves who ...

6. Taylor–Burton Diamond - Wikipedia

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   After its purchase by Taylor and Burton, Taylor found the diamond too heavy to wear as a ring, and commissioned an $80,000 diamond necklace which included a custom setting for the diamond. The necklace was designed to fit Taylor's neck allowing the diamond to cover her tracheotomy scar resulting from her bout with near fatal pneumonia in 1961. [3]

7. Napoleon Diamond Necklace - Wikipedia

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   The Napoleon Diamond Necklace is somewhat atypical of other contemporary works produced by Marie-Étienne Nitot. Other pieces commissioned from him by Emperor Napoleon, such as the two parures celebrating the Emperor's marriage to Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria, the Marie Louise Diadem, the wedding jewels for Empress Joséphine, etc., all demonstrate a predilection for highly decorative ...

8. Harry Winston - Wikipedia

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   Harry Winston (March 1, 1896 – December 8, 1978) [ 1] was an American jeweler. He donated the Hope Diamond to the Smithsonian Institution in 1958 after owning it for a decade. [ 2] He also traded the Portuguese Diamond to the Smithsonian in 1963 in exchange for 3,800 carats of small diamonds. [ 3]

9. Blake Lively Just Wore Elizabeth Taylor’s Actual Ruby and ...

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   The ruby jewels were sold individually after Elizabeth Taylor’s death in 2011 as part of a Christie’s estate auction. The Cartier Collection bought the necklace for $3,778,500 with the ...