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[tiarascrowns]

Late Victorian Opal and Diamond Tiara

"A late Victorian opal and diamond tiara/necklace, consisting of seven knife-edge gold bars graduating from the centre, each set with two round cabochon-cut opals and an old-cut diamond in-between, the bars connected with six diamond-set arches each arch with a diamond-trefoil and a round cabochon-cut opal within, terminating on each side with a small diamond and opal trefoil motif, the diamonds estimated to weigh 2.9 carats in total, all mounted in gold and silver, attached to silver-gilt tiara frame and accompanied by gold chain back section to convert to a necklace, circa 1890, measuring 4 x 14.5cm, gross weight 36.4 grams."

- 1st Dibs

[gemville]

Victorian Topaz and Yellow Gold Demi Parure Of A Necklace and Matching Earrings

Photo Courtesy: Bentley & Skinner

Source: forbes.com

[world-of-wales]

CATHERINE'S STYLE FILES - 2023

1 JUNE 2023 || The Princess of Wales along with Prince William attended the State Banquet held in honour of the Royal Wedding of Crown Prince Hussein and Crown Princess Rajwa in Amman, Jordan.

Catherine was in -

↬ 'Georgia' Gown in Pink by Jenny Packham

↬ Queen Mary's Lover's Knot Tiara

↬ Greville Diamond Chandelier Earrings

↬ Royal Family Order of Queen Elizabeth II

↬ Art Deco Diamond Set Brooch from Bentley & Skinner

↬ Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order Sash

↬ Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order Badge

↬ Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order Star

↬ Satin Logo Box Clutch in 'Blush' by Prada

↬ 'Rania 105' Pumps in 'Silver Glitter' from Gianvito Rossi

[fkatwigsfashion]

FKA twigs at the 2020 Grammy's - 1/26/20

Wearing:

Custom Dress by Ed Marler

Shoes by Jimmy Choo

Jewelry by Bentley & Skinner

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Truman Garcia Capote (born Truman Streckfus Persons; 30 September 1924 – 25 August 1984)

[the-jewel-catalogue]

Round Up 2024

NEW JEWELS ID'D

(1) The Princess of Wales at the 2024 Christmas Walkabout wore the Robinson Pelham "Daystar Blue Topaz Earrings"

(2) The Princess of Wales at the 2024 Christmas Carol Service wore the Mulberry Amberley Baroque Pearl Earrings.

(3) The Duchess of Edinburgh at the Qatar State Banquet wore the necklace of the collection she has by Graff.

(4) Queen Camilla at 2024 Ascot wore the Van Cleef & Arpels Perlee Couleurs bangle in sapphire.

(5) Queen Camilla wore a new bracelet by Cartier on a visit to RAF Leeming.

(6) Queen Camilla wore a new ring by Bentley & Skinner during a visit to Ireland.

[moongloss]

Late Victorian Small Diamond-set Tiara by Bentley & Skinner

A delicate and romantic tiara. Made in the late Victorian era, this tiara features a dazzling array of old-mine cut diamonds arranged on a gold frame. The tiara can be unset from the frame and attached to a period hair comb, perfect for tucking into an elegant chignon.

[anonymoushouseplantfan]

On top of merching Abigail's necklace she's also been putting out PR puff pieces about her sweet nod to Charles like wearing this £15,000 Bentley & Skinner diamond bracelet from Charles.

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/style/1767866/Meghan-markle-Charles-wedding-gift-hiking-outfit-dxus

The article also mentions all the jewelry she wore on the hike LOL My tin hat theory is that she wore that stack as a clapback at Kate and the RF since Kate was wearing the Queen's diamond festoon necklace & Diana's earrings.

Here is the list of jewelry Meghan wore on the hike according to the article:

£15,000 bracelet from Bentley & Skinner (wedding gift from Charles)

Diana's £17,800 Cartier wristwatch

Diana's £125,000 tennis bracelet

£5,000 Cartier Love

This is absolutely insane to me...just wild😆 This stunt with the jewelry was absolutely deliberate. Sad to see that she's still trying to make that royal connection, but as you said, she's also back to 2016...pap walking with Markus and friend.

LOL, she can't compete. She's just not at the level.

Don't get me wrong, I bet you're right and she thinks she's clapping back. It's just that she's not at the level.

[sofiewilde]

A Victorian diamond and pearl pendant, the central pearl within a diamond heart surmounted by floral motif in pearl and diamond, a pearl drop to base suspended by diamond foliate decoration, convertible to a brooch, the diamond set in silver and mounted on gold, circa 1890, gross weight 15.5g. This exquisite late nineteenth century pendant comes from the collection of Bentley & Skinner, the London jewellers by appointment to both Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. This piece features a heart shaped central plaque set throughout with a dazzling array of old-cut diamonds. At the centre of the heart is a lovely natural pearl, and surrounding the heart are floral and foliate decorations set with further diamonds. The pendant culminates in a wonderful glowing pearl drop. The combination of pearls and diamonds is elegant, and the plethora of details featured on this piece make it a stunning example of Victorian style.

Metal: 10k Gold,Yellow Gold,Silver

Stone: Diamond,Natural Pearl

Stone Cut: Brilliant Cut

Style: Victorian

Place of Origin: United Kingdom

Period: 1890-1899

Date of Manufacture: circa 1890

[saintmeghanmarkle]

Cost of Megsy's Invictus Fashion Show by u/rangerhorsetug

Cost of Megsy's Invictus Fashion Show For those of you who do not want to give clicks to certain pages, I went and tracked all of her outfits- several things were unidentified, and two items I estimated the cost of through some research: her coat that she rewore from her announcement of Archie's pregnancy in Australia, which I estimated to be about $3500 from other coats on the website. I also estimated the signet ring to be about $3000 as custom signet rings in gold seem to average that price from several jewelers' websites, including the website for Bentley and Skinner, a royally endorsed jeweler and a place where Meghan has a piece or two from. She also went on a double date with the Bublé couple, where she wore earrings that Harry supposedly got her for last year's Valentine's Day. Each earring cost $1800; since she hasn't been pictured wearing them before, I put them in the 'new' category.TLDR; She wore 17 new items, which totaled $18,067She wore 11 outfits over the five days. Each outfit averaged $37,405.90Her lowest-cost outfit was $30,670 Her highest-cost outfit was $49,555https://ift.tt/IYxhdpM finally have a break, so some new outfit edits will be out soon! post link: https://ift.tt/HXO4BsT author: rangerhorsetug submitted: February 16, 2025 at 09:39PM via SaintMeghanMarkle on Reddit disclaimer: all views + opinions expressed by the author of this post, as well as any comments and reblogs, are solely the author's own; they do not necessarily reflect the views of the administrator of this Tumblr blog. For entertainment only.

[tiarascrowns]

Diamond, Onyx & Pearl Platinum Tiara

"Dazzling in person, this bandeau style tiara is made to be worn on the back of the head yet is of such a scale that it can be worn more on the forehead. Superior platinum work with superb mille grain detail provides the perfect setting for the wondrous combination of diamonds, natural pearls and onyx. Set in a Greek key pattern, four hundred and eighty (480) old European and single cut diamonds with a total estimated weight of 7.8 carats (color range H-K; VS1-SI1 clarity) embellish and create impeccable frames for seven (7) luscious natural pearls (untested but assumed natural due to age and examination) ranging in size from 3.35 mm to more than 8 mm in diameter. Rectangular cut onyx, ninety-five (95) gems in all provides contrasting visual interest against the whiteness of the diamonds and the pearls. To secure the tiara to the head, a length of ribbon or ribbon over elastic is engaged through the loops on the back of the silver head band.

The piece is accompanied by a blue velvet tiara box, possibly original with a cream silk interior embossed "Skinner Silversmith and Diamond Merchant, Orchard Street, London. W." in gold letters with the surmounted image of a crown."

- 1st Dibs

[gemville]

Edwardian Opal and Diamond Ring Set In Platinum, Circa 1905

Photo Courtesy: Bentley & Skinner

Source: forbes.com

[dreamofstarlight]

Styling Sessions - Duchess of Sussex

Andrew GN Asymmetric Midi Dress, Jennifer Chamandi Heels, Stella McCartney Bag, Bentley and Skinner Diamond Line Bracelet, Princess Diana Diamond Tennis Bracelet, Ecksand Aquamarine Earrings

[mote-historie]

Circa 1900 Art Nouveau Enamel And Pearl Flower Pendant. A fine Art Nouveau enamel and pearl flower pendant, the shaded blue, white and yellow enamelled flower head with brilliant-cut diamond centre, to each side a fan of leaves enamelled in shades from green to cream set with pearls at intervals, below four leaves and green enamelled stem and roots set with pearls, at the top a green enamelled hinged pendant loop, all enamelled on yellow gold, measuring 10cm x 8cm, American, circa 1900, gross weight 32grams.

For sale Bentley & Skinner

[ajaxcbg]

I drove Bentley’s £2m recreation of a Le Mans 24 Hours winner

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21 December 2024 8:00am GMT

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Dripping on the carpet of the plush hospitality suite and trying to stay out of sight of Bentley’s equally plush customers in their designer trainers and expensive threads, I peeked at the coffee-table books about the car I’d just driven around the Thruxton circuit during a monsoon.

Look closely at photographs of the original Bentley Speed Six in 1928 and you’ll see a time and place, a society and lives that bear only the smallest comparison with ours. As L.P. Hartley wrote in The Go-Between: “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.”

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On the cusp of the Great Depression, the differences in society strata were marked. UK average wages were only £5 a week yet Woolf Barnato, who had purchased Bentley in 1926 with funds bequeathed by the family fortunes from the Kimberley diamond mines in South Africa, had wealth which in today’s terms would put him shoulder to shoulder with tech bosses such as Bill Gates. One estimate suggested that, in the late Twenties, Barnato was spending £800 a week simply on entertaining.

Bentley Boys

And out of that past comes the barking roar of the Bentley Speed Six, a souped-up version of the 6½ litre of 1926, producing 180bhp from its massive 6,597cc straight-six engine. It cost £1,575 for a bare chassis and, by the time you’d got it back from your coachbuilder of choice, between £2,230 and £2,500 (£122,085 to £131,557 in today’s values).

Raced at the Le Mans 24 Hours by the rich and privileged Bentley Boys and on the road against trains and Rolls-Royce engineers, the Speed Six delivered as its name implied. For the first 70 models the factory raised the 6½ litre’s ultra-conservative compression ratio from 5.1:1 to about 6:1, fitted a couple of Skinners Union (SU) carburettors, liberating a 92mph top speed with a fuel consumption of about 15mpg. This was motoring indeed: refined, swift and reliable touring – as long as you could master the gnashing D-Type four-speed gear change. The Speed Six was the apple of company founder Walter Owen Bentley’s eye, designed to do battle with the up and coming rivals of the time: Napier and Rolls-Royce.

“The Speed Six was, indeed, a most formidable motorcar and tremendously handsome as well. It was perhaps the best car to come from the Bentley factory,” wrote Clutton and Stanford in The Vintage Motor Car.

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The racing department went further and with single-port block and induction manifolding, stronger conrods and a larger electron sump, racing rockers and a Bosch magneto, they liberated a genuine 200bhp and a top speed of 120mph for the remaining production cars. It managed 134mph on a circuit, without a significant penalty in fuel consumption.

The cars won outright honours at the Le Mans 24 Hours for two years running in 1929 and 1930, Bentley’s fourth and fifth victories in the French endurance classic and Barnato’s second and third victory there before he retired from racing.

“Never before, or since, has any team of cars in any country captured the imagination of the motoring public of the world as did the Green Bentleys at Le Mans,” wrote J.R. Buckley in Cars Of The Connoisseur.

The first Speed Six victory was as part of a mixed Bentley team of 4½ litre and Speed Six cars. With only 25 starters, Tim Birkin led from the off in the Speed Six he shared with Barnato. In practice Birkin had been clocked at 115mph on the straight and in the race he set the fastest lap at an average of more than 79mph. Within four hours the entire Bentley team had lapped all the other cars.

As reported in The Autocar: “Suddenly a long green car shot into view and the big Bentley six-cylinder went magnificently past the grandstand, with ‘Tim’ sitting bolt upright at attention, and not another machine in sight anywhere. The interval grew, then a group of three more green Bentleys swept by, driven by Clement, Kidston and Benjafield. The English team was running right away from its rivals.”

The prettiest girl…

Victory was so complete that Bentley Boy Jack Dumfee actually stopped his car during the race to have a drink at the Café de l’Hippodrome. Barnato’s instructions for the 1929 Le Mans celebration party held at Ardenrun near Lichfield was for a “course consisting of supper, dancing and fair drinking, commencing at 10pm on Saturday until 6am on Sunday [with] a ride down the drive in No 1 Bentley to the prettiest girl. Driver Barnato or Birkin – au choix…”.

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The 1930 race was even more of a walkover. Bentley supplied six of the 18 starters and the only real threat to the “world’s fastest lorries”, as Ettore Bugatti had called them, came from Rudolf Caracciola at the wheel of a 7.0-litre Mercedes, but his battery let him down. Birkin went hell for leather, setting a 89.7mph lap record, but retired early and it was Old Number 1 which took the chequered flag for the second year in a row, this time with Barnato and Glen Kidston sharing the drive.

The Autocar got its hands on a Speed Six in September 1930. Their road tester’s feelings about the car were mixed, almost speechless in fact: “It is extraordinarily difficult to explain in words or writing the exact fascination of a big, fast car of the type so ably represented by the big Bentley speed model.”

Size matters

Perhaps it is the sheer size of the Speed Six. My friend Geoff Harris who owned one said his friends used to call it “The Place”, as it was so big. Perhaps the quiet, smooth nature of the engine, so unlike the slightly manic all-or-nothing nature of the 4½-litre “blower” (supercharged) cars. And then there’s the less dressy look of the Speed Six, the bonnet sides tend not to have cooling vents, the bodywork unadorned with stickers giving driver names and flags and, worse, the driver’s blood group. Were it not for the fact that it’s the size of a pocket battleship, it looks like the sort of car in which you could park quietly away in the back of the car park where no one would notice.

These Speed Six Continuation follows a pattern set by meticulous recreations of the Blower models; 12 cars at £1.65 million each (add VAT and it’s almost £2 million) plus a couple of engineering development cars. Immaculately engineered under the same Mulliner team headed by Dave Argent, a young Yorkshire engineer who previously worked for Bentley’s GT3 racing team.

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“We’ve tried to put a bit back,” says Argent, explaining that Bentley did a full endurance test of the car which showed the traditional weakness of the original halfshafts when X-rayed. A computer-aided redesign proved more resilient and the redesign was then offered to the specialists as a potential solution.

On track – in the rain

To get in you shuffle across the tan leather seats from the passenger side along wooden floorboards, watching the facia passing like the slow train: thermometer; air pressure gauge; fuel pumps; lights; fuel-pressure hand pump; starter; clock; rev counter; oil pressure gauge; and switches for the separate dynamo-and-coil ignition and magneto. You finally arrive in front of a simply massive black-rimmed wheel with quadrant controls for mixture, ignition timing and a hand throttle.

“You’ll be watching that one,” says Argent, pointing at the oil pressure gauge.

There’s room to move around, the right-hand throttle helps in the familiarisation and the stubby H-pattern gear lever has a trigger detent to prevent you wrongly slotting reverse. The view is through a cut-down aeroscreen along the lengthy bonnet to the radiator cap; I feel I should be smoking a pipe.

The engine is warm, so just check neutral, engage pumps, set the mixture to start and push the starter, whereupon the mild steel exhaust booms around the garage. The clutch disengages high on the pedal, you release the outside handbrake and pull away.

Almost immediately you need second gear, which is a double declutch up. Then third, which requires a bit of throttle to engage tolerably quietly. Fortunately the din of the torrential rain masks the crunches.

As well as being acutely aware of the ever larger bodies that were being fitted to his chassis, W.O. also thought that his customers wanted to drive everywhere in top gear, which was a driving thought in the development of the 6½ litre. Not changing gear was a major preoccupation at a time when owners were starting to drive their own cars (rather than relying on a chauffeur) and struggled with the massive crash gearboxes of the era. The sugar heir Oliver Lyle, for example, invested a lot of money in Napier to build a car that wouldn’t require much gearchanging so his wife, who struggled to swap ratios, could drive herself.

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Did I mention that it rained – and how? The puddle in my lap was deep enough for a couple of ducks and the floorboards discoloured oxblood with the water flooding off the scuttle. Even with goggles it was hard to see, impossible without them. Ducking down relieved the spray of track dirt and water into my eyes, but then you can’t see anything but bonnet and dashboard.

Once up into fourth gear the big Bentley settles into a powerful rhythm, with the exhaust sounding like a dog barking into a sousaphone. The nose points authoritatively through the squiggly bit of Campbell and Cobb Corners and then the hammer down out of the left-hander at Noble and onto the seemingly endless right-hander through Church that leads back to the chicane at Club. Argent tells me the testers have seen 3,700rpm on the big tachometer, but 2,500 (maybe 2,600rpm) feels quite fast enough for me on the streaming track.

It feels precise in a way the 6½-litre I’ve driven didn’t. The body felt stiffer, the steering had less wind-up, the throttle more action and less lost action. This, I’d vouchsafe, is what they’d have been like when new. Not cars you’d drive every day, perhaps, but a car in which, like Barnato, you’d drain your glass and leave the Carlton Hotel in Cannes at 6pm to race through the night up the length of France, and arrive 22½ hours later at the Conservative Club on St James faster than it took the famed Blue Train to reach Calais.

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Then we come to the price. At one time you couldn’t give away a Speed Six. These are specialist cars demanding skills and knowledge to maintain and if things go wrong the bills can be mind-warping; for many years that was reflected in the (relatively) low price.

In the last five or so years the original cars have maintained their value at about half to three quarters of a million depending on their condition, their history and how much they’ve been mucked around with; in other words, a lot less than half the cost of these continuation cars. But it’s a case of buyer beware if you try to buy an original. A lot of the more numerous 6½-litre cars have been souped up into Speed Sixes and a lot of ugly, heavy long-chassis cars have been cut down into Vanden Plas fabric-bodied racers.

The Telegraph verdict

Should they have done it? I can’t really answer that. The fact that there is a market for such cars is probably justification in its own right. That there are enough people who have a wish to look as though they’ve stepped out of a Brockbank cartoon and have enough money to indulge themselves seems remarkable, but not a cause for concern.

If you own an original, you shouldn’t feel threatened by a dozen replicas. In addition, in some respects Bentley has given the specialist industry which supplies parts and looks after the older models a small shot in the arm.

And if it gives the rest of us a chance to hear that amazing exhaust bark, then I’m all for it.

[the-jewel-catalogue]

NEW JEWEL (?)

Queen Camilla was spotted wearing this ring yesterday in Ireland.

Bentley & Skinner is a British family held company specialising in fine antique jewelry, silver and objects of art by Carl Faberge. Bentley & Skinner are jewellers and silversmiths by appointment to the Queen and the Prince of Wales

To be edited if more information becomes available