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Alexandre Reza, the Russian-born Parisian jeweler designed this for the stylish Florence J. Gould (1895-1983) who married the son of the industrialist J. Gould. She had a legendary jewelry collection to rival that of Elizabeth Taylor's. She bequeathed much of her estate to the Florence J Gould Foundation.
It was the baguette diamonds which form the flexible collar that caught my attention because it occurred to me that beaders could use beadwoven bugle beads to create a necklace along similar lines at a tiny fraction of the cost! A drop shaped crystal bead could be used to substitute for the diamond pendant.
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