Garrard's making the Queen's Coronation crown, 1937
Mr Charles Stone, of Messrs. Garrard's, the Court jewellers, assembling the various parts of the circlet first made for Queen Victoria and modified for each succeeding Coronation. The crown was designed with four crosses, or patee and four fleurs de lys and the famous Koh-i-Noor diamond was set in the front cross patee. The crown was adapted for Queen Elizabeth, consort of King George VI and later the Queen Mother, by including four complete arches instead of the eight half arches forming Queen Mary's crown
Picture No
13990529
Media ID
45427729
Size
3500px x 4877px
(1.0MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Unattributed photograph in The Sphere, 1 May 1937
Date
1937
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