Memoirs of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, and of the Court of Queen Anne Vol. 1 (of 2)Thomson, A. T., Mrs.
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Memoirs of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, and of the Court of Queen Anne Vol. 1 (of 2)
Thomson, A. T., Mrs.
Great Britain -- Court and courtiers -- Biography; Marlborough, Sarah Jennings Churchill, Duchess of, 1660-1744
A brilliant of the first water, and very
lively weight, in a ring; the gift of the
Emperor 10 1½ 900 0 0
A brilliant drawing to the crown, and a
fowle on one side; the gift of the king of
Prussia, in a coulant to a cross 13 0¼ 1,500 0 0
In her grace the Duchess of Marlborough’s
earrings, the two brilliants under - - 900 0 0
A fine spread brilliant, the bottom very
deep, drawing upon the blue 6 2¾ 450 0 0
A high-crowned brilliant, good water, and
perfect cleane 7 0½ 450 0 0
A clear lively stone, well spread, but a
little drawing, (in the cross) 5 2½ 300 0 0
A fine stone of good water, perfectly
cleane, but thin, (the middle stone of a
button for a loope) 2 3½ 150 0 0
A spread stone, but drawing to the crown,
(in a collet for a little cross) 3 1¾ 150 0 0
A good water, and a fine lively cleane
brilliant, (in the cross) 4 1¾ 130 0 0
A fine lively cleane stone, but drawing in
the water, (in the cross) 4 2½ 130 0 0
The middle stone of a button for a loope,
very white, extremely spread, and cleane
and lively 2 0¾ 100 0 0
A very fine stone, in all perfection of
colour and cleaness, (in the cross) 2 1¾ 60 0 0
A cleane stone, a little drawing, (in the
cross) 2 2¼ 60 0 0
A brilliant of the first water, and almost
perfectly cleane, (in a ring) 5 0 210 0 0
One fassett diamond drawing 2 3¼ 100 0 0
The other fassett drawing yellowish. The two
middle stones of the button 2 0½ 80 0 0
Forty-four fassetts in the loopes 7 2 45 0 0
Sixteen fassetts in the buttons above 9 0 72 0 0
Two high fassett diamonds through the four points in
buttons, each set round with eleven brilliants, all
valued at 220 0 0
Forty-four fassett diamonds in the two loopes 35 0 0
Twenty-two fassett diamonds in a buckle 60 0 0
Two loopes with forty brilliants in them - - -
Twenty-four brilliants round the two brilliant buttons - - -
Twelve buttons of the same sort 355 0 0
Twelve loopes that go with them 135 0 0
Two buttons of another fashion, with seven diamonds,
each of them about the bigness of the middle stone 130 0 0
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