A necklace believed to contain jewels from the infamous Marie Antoinette "Affair of the Diamond Necklace" has been sold for £3.7m.

she proved the old adage “if it ain’t broke…”, accessorising her strapless Oscar de la Renta dress with a diamond tennis necklace by the LA jeweller Logan Hollowell. Set with over 17 ...

Set with nearly 500 diamonds and weighing about 300 carats, it smashed price expectations at a ... been at the centre of the Affair of the Diamond Necklace - a scandal which is said to have ...

A mysterious diamond-laden necklace with possible links to a scandal ... But after energetic bidding, the hammer price ticked in at 3.55 million Swiss francs ($4 million), and Sotheby's listed ...

Some of the gems may have featured in a royal scandal known as the “affair of the diamond necklace” that damaged the French queen’s reputation in 1785 Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent A ...

high price. Tiffany & Co. created this necklace which features a pear-shaped, 13.05-carat, D-color, internally flawless diamond suspended from a chain with spectacle-set brilliant-cut diamonds. It ...

It is believed some of the jewels in the necklace sold on Wednesday were the original ones at the centre of the "affair of the diamond necklace ... which was set with 650 diamonds and weighed ...

The 300-carat necklace ... price. According to Sotheby's, the necklace — made of over 500 likely Golconda diamonds from mines in India — may have been linked to the infamous "Affair of the ...

GENEVA, Nov 13 (Reuters) - A diamond-studded necklace thought to be linked to a scandal that hastened the downfall of the doomed 18th century queen of France, Marie Antoinette, sold at auction in ...