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Marie Antoinette’s diamond bracelets sell for €7.2 million at auction
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A pair of diamond bracelets that belonged to Marie Antoinette were sold for 7.46 million Swiss francs (€7.2 million) at auction.
The bracelets were among other pieces of rare jewelry from the wife of the last king of France Louis XVI, who like her husband met her fate at the guillotine during the French revolution.
They sold for much more than the presale estimate of between 2 million and 4 million Swiss francs on Tuesday evening at a Christie’s auction in Geneva.
The final price included taxes and fees on top of the hammer price. The buyer was not identified.
Featuring 112 diamonds, they each weigh 97 grams and include silver and gold.
After Marie Antoinette’s death in 1793, the bracelets that had been commissioned some 17 years earlier were
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