Selected her Engagement Ring from a Jewelry Collection

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Selected her Engagement Ring from a Jewelry
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We plan to catch you up with all of the exciting
details in forthcoming posts, until then we
wanted to show you a delightful sneak peek of
our miniature Diana dress collection, truly
incredible! Its a one-of-a-kind collection of
all 79 Christies Dresses in miniature. These
dresses will be part of our Princess Diana 3D
Virtual Museum, where you can take an up close
and personal look at them, all with their own
unique design features.
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These Little Dresses are perfect copies of the
original dresses auctioned by Christies in June
1997 just two months before Princess Dianas
death. Theyre all of uniform size and fit the 15
1/2" Franklin Mint vinyl Princess Diana doll.
The dresses were collected over a ten year period
from 1997 2007. Some of the dresses were
wonderfully made by various doll companies
notably, the Franklin Mint and the Great American
Doll Company .However, the vast majority of the
dresses were masterfully hand-made in exquisite,
remarkable detail by private label dress makers.
Some of the dresses were extremely difficult to
create for example, the Lot 43 Hook dress
(floor-length, black and white gown with tightly
swirled ribbon inter-spaced with pearls) took a
master dressmaker several attempts and finally
two months to craft!
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Dressmakers from the USA, Canada, UK, France,
Netherlands, China, Japan, and Hong-Kong all
contributed their amazing talent to the enormous
task of making all 79 dresses for the 10 year
anniversary exhibit in 2007. That exhibit
reunited a total of thirty Diana dresses, 26 of
them from the Christies auction, a feat which
had never been done, nor has ever been done
since. This exhibit was held October December
2007 at the Appleton Museum of Art in Ocala, FL.
The Little Dresses were displayed once again in
2010 at the Von Leibig Museum of Art in Naples,
Florida before they were retired. In addition
to being displayed at these two world class,
fully-accredited museums, the collection of
Little Dresses was featured in the BBC Canada
Television Documentary, Marketing the Monarchy
in 2011. It is the only one of its kind in the
world.
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The Little Dresses collection is just one
component of a very large array of Princess Diana
items collected from around the world. You can
view the entire collection in our Princess  Diana
3D Virtual Museum, launching August 2019.
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