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Crown Jewels, Elizabeth Taylor Jewels, My Jewels

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Crown jewels? How could I not love this commercial?

The crown jewels would probably be a bargain compared to Elizabeth Taylor’s jewels, which brought in a record-setting $115 million at auction. (When Taylor died in March, I wrote about her jewelry on the Huffington Post. You can revisit that story by clicking here.) Most of the jewelery sold for well above the estimates. The heart-shaped Taj Mahal Diamond, for instance, had a pre-auction estimate of $300,000 to $500,000, but sold for $8.8 million.

One of y’all better get my Chicken-in-Egg locket for $16,000 while you can. After an insanely glamorous actress buys it, it’s going to be worth millions! Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

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  1. Hope Mr B bought you a lovely trinket from Miss Taylor’s swag.

    Meanwhile Mr FF didn’t so I’d better go and revisit her Love Affair with Jewels book and re-live the magic via the pages x

  2. Wendy,

    I think Christies lowballed the estimates for the jewels. Based on the price of gold, the provenance of the stone beyond the Butron-Taylor story, and the fact it was also styled by Cartier, the Taj Mahal necklace was worth far more than their estimate. C’mon- estimating the Edith Head necklace for $1,500- $2000? The gold’s worth more than that!