Marie Antoinette's two diamond bracelets were sold for £6million after being expected to fetch up to £3million at an auction today, 228 years after her death.

The pair of silver and yellow gold bracelets are both made up of three strands and contain 112 diamonds.

They were among her few surviving possessions sent from France two years before she and her husband, King Louis XVI, were captured during the French Revolution and beheaded in 1793.




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Marie Antoinette was the last queen of France before the French Revolution.

The bracelets were hidden once she and her husband King Louis XVI were taken as prisoners in Paris during the French Revolution and were found after her beheading in 1793.

Marie Antionette placed the bracelets in a wooden chest entrusted to Austrian ambassador and friend Count Mercy-Argenteau, in Brussels in 1791.

Hmmm

She originally bought the bracelets for 250,000 livres in 1776, just two years after taking the throne with her husband King Louis XVI, paying for them partly with gemstones from her personal collection and with funds provided by her husband.

The bracelets were hidden once she and her husband King Louis XVI were taken as prisoners in Paris during the French Revolution and were found after her beheading in 1793.

See where Africa is today!

Our African ancestors also have their treasures but the cycle of underdevelopment and poverty has made a lot of these treasures sold for cheap or discarded entirely because no one could ascertain their real worth.

The bracelets was joined by a ruby and diamond Cartier bangle that once belonged to Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor and was expected to reach up to £1.62 million.

The stunning bracelets were sold by a mystery European royal family member at Christie's auction in Geneva, Switzerland.

228 years after, the bracelets are still looking clean and flawless.

The pair of silver and yellow gold bracelets are both made up of three strands and contain 112 diamonds.

No wonder!

iamyemiakins:
228 years after, the bracelets are still looking clean and flawless.


No wonder!

diamonds don't fade

The thing already looks rusty.
I wouldn't pay 1naira for it though.

Mercychen:
The thing already looks rusted. I wouldn't pay 1naira for it though.

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Nice thread Explorers, can you please post about the treason committed by her husband that led to their death and what happened to their children as well or post about the French revolution? Please

Omakraid:
Nice thread Explorers, can you please post about the treason committed by her husband that led to their death and what happened to their children as well or post about the French revolution? Please

Make you for try read about an yourself na.

Me I still wonder how humans ascribe value to things sha. 2.5 billion Kwa ?

Like, it's just stone bro !

What can the diamond do for me ?

It shud be sold more than that. Because check the years she abandon d bracelet and no that too, d bracelet is nt ordinary one. D buy shud av but it more than that cuz its money shud be multiplyin every 10 yearz. . S.impz

Teripaul:
I shud be sold more than that. Because check the years she abandon d bracelet

Same here, but maybe is not the rare type of diamond and weight also determines.

Should be worth more but
He be like say na original fake

My brother money good

Mercychen:
The thing already looks rusty.
I wouldn't pay 1naira for it though.

It's yellow gold, not rust.

chariisGRACE:


Make you for try read about an yourself na.

Sorry, I'm using freebasics if not I would not make that absurd request online

freebasics can still open wikipedia. search 'the french revolution'
its a very popular topic, all your questions would be answered

Omakraid:

Sorry, I'm using freebasics if not I would not make that absurd request online

Mercychen:
The thing already looks rusty.
I wouldn't pay 1naira for it though.

Go n' get a good phone with good pixel resolution.
What rusty there?
Something that has being cleaned neat

SlyCharlie:
freebasics can still open wikipedia. search 'the french revolution'
its a very popular topic, all your questions would be answered

Thanks

Somebody with zero penny on his or her account will come now and be shouting vanity upon vanity as if na their vanity.

When are we having the Nigerian revolution?

Explorers:
Marie Antoinette was the last queen of France before the French Revolution.

The bracelets were hidden once she and her husband King Louis XVI were taken as prisoners in Paris during the French Revolution and were found after her beheading in 1793.

Marie Antionette placed the bracelets in a wooden chest entrusted to Austrian ambassador and friend Count Mercy-Argenteau, in Brussels in 1791.

Marie was unfortunately guillotined in 1793! Gosh.

Goosh

Explorers:


Same here, but maybe is not the rare type of diamond and weight also determines.

You gon become a mod one day brov . but by that time no forget me O !!! If anybody abuse me if I say make you ban am ,ban am sharp sharp O no waste time

Someone should link Diezani to the buyer

ReneeNuttall:
Somebody with zero penny on his or her account will come now and be shouting vanity upon vanity as if na their vanity.

Still not change the fact that it's vanity irrespective of your account balance. No one will stop you if you can afford it.

Treasure17:

Still not change the fact that it's vanity irrespective of your account balance. No one will stop you if you can afford it.

Is it your vanity?

ReneeNuttall:


Is it your vanity?

Lol. It's fine.