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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MaJa, post: 3629641, member: 14649&quot;]Edit: I just saw that the English text does not match the German text, the old setting was made of silver and gold:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Die Diamant Ohrringe waren bis in die 1920er Jahre in der Familie, erst dann im Exil, verkaufte Prinz Felix Youssoupov das Paar Diamantohrring 1928 an Cartier.</p><p>(Er vermutete, dass sie zu Beginn des XIX. Jahrhunderts von einem seiner Vorfahren als Teil der Sammlung von Marie Antoinette in Paris gekauft worden waren und gab diese Geschichte falsch weiter, das wurde inzwischen geklärt).</p><p><span style="color: #ff0000">Damals war die Fassung dieser beiden großen Diamanten eine </span><span style="color: #ff4d4d">klassische Silber- und Goldfassung</span>. Cartier verkaufte die Diamanten an Marjorie Merryweather Post. <span style="color: #ff0000">Sie bat Harry Winston eine neue Platinfassungen zu kreieren</span>, und sie übergab die<a href="https://royal-magazin.de/austria/saxony-austria-anna-flower-merriweather-post-close-diadem-tiara.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://royal-magazin.de/austria/saxony-austria-anna-flower-merriweather-post-close-diadem-tiara.htm" rel="nofollow"><b> Tropfen Diamant-Ohrringe von Königin Marie-Antoinette </b></a>an ihre Tochter Eleanor Post Close, die sie zusammen mit ihrem Blumentiara trug, schließlich spendete sie sie 1964 an den Smithsonian in Washington.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>English translation:</p><p><br /></p><p>The diamond earrings were in the family until the 1920s, only then in exile, Prince Felix Youssoupov sold the pair of diamond earrings to Cartier in 1928.</p><p>(He suspected that they had been bought by one of his ancestors as part of Marie Antoinette&#039;s collection in Paris at the beginning of the XIX century and passed on this story incorrectly, this has since been clarified).</p><p><span style="color: #ff0000">At the time, the setting of these two large diamonds was a classic silver and gold setting.</span> Cartier sold the diamonds to Marjorie Merryweather Post.</p><p><span style="color: #ff0000">She asked Harry Winston to create a new platinum setting</span>, and she gave Queen Marie-Antoinette&#039;s drop diamond earrings to her daughter Eleanor Post Close, who wore them with her flower tiara, eventually donating them to the Smithsonian in Washington in 1964.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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