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Shirley Bassey's dazzling jewellery postulation has fetched a satellite grounds £1.8million.
The Welsh singer’s plain ladies’ Cartier Baignoire golden wristwatch was auctioned for a grounds £54,976,22 times its estimate.
Her 1960s Van Cleef & Arpels diamond ringing with brilliant-cut diamonds, a acquisition from Elton John, sold for £39,995, triple its estimate.
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PA)A Van Cleef & Arpels emerald and diamond necklace, bought by Dame Shirley, 87, to observe her archetypal Royal Variety Performance successful 1961, fetched £144,985.
Dame Shirley, whose illustration hits see Big Spender and Goldfinger, fell successful emotion with jewellery arsenic a young singer. She said: “I rapidly graduated to my lifelong passionateness for diamonds which preceded the signaling of Diamonds Are Forever.”
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PA)More than 80 pieces of hers were up for auction astatine Sotheby’s Fine Jewels merchantability successful Paris past Thursday.
It included an aquamarine, sapphire, diamond and gem set, which went for £45,157. The merchantability proceeds went to the star’s chosen charities.
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