| Yes, we discussed that auction in detail. However, the person who posted the picture showed the George Jay Gould necklace as depicted in the auction catalog, not the Maisie Plant necklace. Also, La Régente was never set in a corsage but in an elaborate stomacher (a type of huge pendant while a corsage is a pin) and before that in a tiara. A note to the article quoted by SunshinePearls: La Regente weighs 337 grain not grams that is 84.25 carats or 16.85 grams or something like half an ounce. It was first in a tiara and later with a diamond cap added a removable pendant in a stomacher. There is some debate where the pearl in the pearl-and-sapphire-corsage came from and whether that was La Reine des Perles, but that issue is as yet unresolved. The Maisie Plant necklace is still in a private collection and has not come up for auction again since 1955.
Zeide G. Erskine
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