As for the tiara, by 1962 Van Cleef & Arpels had replaced the - TopicsExpress



          

As for the tiara, by 1962 Van Cleef & Arpels had replaced the missing emeralds with 79 Persian turquoise stones totaling 540 carats. The switch to the opaque turquoise constituted a major change to the look of the piece, but the new look found an admirer in Marjorie Merriweather Post. The American collector best known for her taste in Russian imperial objects bought the diadem from Van Cleef & Arpels and wore it herself before donating it to the Smithsonian in 1971
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