The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-07-09
JEWELS OF ROYALTY,
AMERICANS COMING 10 FRONT
WITH COLLECTIONS.
Mrs. Mackey's 1000 Pearls----The
Duchess OF Marlborough's Collec-
ton - Queen Alexandra's Three
Fayorite Jewels.

fNNorite JeWeis.
OF her personal jewels, next to her
wedding ring. the late Queen Vic
toria most valued an insignificant
enamel ring, set with single dia-
mond, given to her by Prince Albert
when she was yet a child. and his
betrothal ring, a snake set with the
finest emeralds
These three rings were never re-
moved from her hand and were bu-
ried with her. Much treasured. too.
was the bracelet she always wore,
composed OF a numerous array Of
small golden hearts each with q
minute miniature of one of her
grandchildren or great grandchil-
6Fen.
Queen Alexandra, In addition to n
safeful of diamonds and pearls, owns
some wonderful gems -rubies, sap
phires and which, how
ever. she rarely wears. The only col
orcd stones she really likes are anne
rhysts, and these she has given, at
Christmas and on their fete days, to
her friends and relatives In such
numbers, set in scarf pins. bangles,
chains hat pins and sunshade tops,
that she has quite popularized the
stone, hitherto little valued In Eng
land. With dresses of her fayorite
color, mauye, the Queen always
wears amethysts.
The jewels she values above all
are her engagement ring, set with
beryl emerald, ruby, topaz, jaeinth,
emerald the first letters of which
spell out the name by which she has
always called her husband, BERTHE"
the beautiful diamond cross given
TO her by the women Of Denmark
on her marriage. and the crown OF
brilliants. set in silver, bestowed by
the women Of England on her silver
wedding day.
The most splendid Jewels Queen
Alexandra possesses are undoubted-
~ her pearls She has ropes and
ropes of them, high dog collars and
pearls set In trimmings for the cor
sage Of her ball dresses. These have
been collected and given to her by
the Gear and her sister. the Dowager
Empress of Russia, as we'll as by
members of the English, Danish and
German royal families, many being
old heirlooms.
The Queens pearls are surpassed
only by the young Duchess of MARI
borough's historic collection. This
includes some of the most interest
ing pearls In existence-th pearls
that belonged to the Inflated Marie
Antoinette, which were bought by
by Mr. Vanderbilt for his daughter
as marriage gift. Each pearl in the
young Duchess necklaceit is i'm
mensely long one--is valued at
81. 900, and she sometimes wears the
ropes wound twice around her neck
and twice around her waist.
| hope | am divulging no state Sc
cret, says a writer In the Grand
If | state that before
Queen Alexandra went last season to
dine with the Duchess at Sutherland
House, the beautiful home of the
Marlboroughs in Cur2on Street, she
asked her youthful Grace to put on
all her pearls" just for once, for
then / will wear NINE" laughed the
Queen. After dinner we will count
which has the larger number And
they did, like two schoolgirls. The
Duchess was the winner by two!
Among the finest black pearls
known are those worn by Lady II
chester OF Holland House. which 1t
took Napoleon III. ten years to coli
lect in all parts of the world for the
Empress Eugene.
What Is said TO be the most valu-
able single necklace of pearls is
owned by Countess Henekel of Paris,
She has also a triple necklet of
pearls OF especial interest.
The first string was the so-ealled
Necklace of the Virgin of AtolSha;"
the second was once the property OF
the ex-Queen of Naples; the third
was worn by the Empress Eugene
on state occasions.
This last string ccn+aiag the great
pe1cl loan1 IN Paterson lorty-eight
yeas ago This pearl, ii it had not
been somewhat injured by the mol
lusk being boiled before the shell
was opened, would be the finest and
largest gem OF modern times.
Mrs. Mackey is said to have tho
largest number of pearls Of any liv-
ing woman. There are almost 1000
of them. One pearl rope belonging
to her measures feet in length,
each pearl being the size of pea |
nd t,arfpcttv matched