Wednesday, March 14, 2012

ANOTHER AUCTION I WOULD LOVE TO ATTEND

The last of the 'Robber Baron' heiresses, Hugette Clark, died about a year ago.  Her jewels are to be auctioned off at Cristie's on April 17th.  Hugette spent most of her life as a recluse, from 1930 onwards.  However, she did enjoy her wonderfully over-the-top jewels prior to (and I suspect after) her self-imposed confinement.  Here is a wonderful photo of her wearing two of the bracelets that will be auctioned:


 And here is one bracelet:









And then there are the two massive diamonds, both of which were worn as rings by Hugette, estimated to sell for $6-8 million and $2-3 million respectively:



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