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Picture No 10653174
Date 1937
Description Garrard's making the Queen's Coronation crown, 1937
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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.
Source Unattributed photograph in The Sphere, 1 May 1937
Credit © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
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