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Swede

(33,244 posts)
Mon Jun 18, 2012, 04:19 PM Jun 2012

Airport sells off Duchess's lost diamond tiara

This is rather odd.

The Duchess of Argyll, who lost five pieces of jewellery including a diamond tiara at Glasgow Airport, spotted one of them in an auction catalogue after BAA sold it off, it was reported.

The Duchess lost a Victorian headpiece and a Cartier brooch along with three other pieces worth a total of £100,000 in 2006. The items went missing as she returned to Clan Campbell's ancestral home, Inveraray Castle.

Despite reporting the loss to the police and informing the Art Loss Register (ALR), they could not be traced until the Duchess, 68, saw her missing brooch in a catalogue for Scottish auction house Lyon and Turnbull, the Independent reported





http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/9338449/Airport-sells-off-Duchesss-lost-diamond-tiara.html

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Airport sells off Duchess's lost diamond tiara (Original Post) Swede Jun 2012 OP
The new owner of the tiara, Ann Romney, could not be reached for comment thelordofhell Jun 2012 #1
! MinneapolisMatt Jun 2012 #2
Beautiful! valerief Jun 2012 #3
Oh, DUZY! MineralMan Jun 2012 #4
Gaaaaaack Coffffff L0oniX Jun 2012 #6
But an anonymous source says... pinboy3niner Jun 2012 #7
And she's a clan member gregoire Jun 2012 #5
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