[BITList] [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] The most flamboyant Maharani

[John Feltham]

G'day folks,

What an interesting web site.

Have you checked out the other gem links at the bottom of the long  
pages?

ooroo



On 12/11/2008, at 4:27 PM, Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar wrote:

----- Original Message ----- From: Claire Bradley
found this fascinating, and HRH Sita Devi is beautiful! I'd really
like to see other images of both her AND those jewels she
heisted from Baroda
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I can help you with one -  see the iamge of Sita Devi and the famous
Chalk Emerald incorporated into an emerald and diamond
necklace in which it became the centerpiece. The story of
how the Chalk Emerald entered the Baroda treasury and
finally ended up in the National Gem Collection of the National
Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution, USA,
through the good offices of Maharani Sita Devi can be seen
here:


http://www.internetstones.com/claire-roy-chalk-emerald-ring.html


--- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar