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In 1862, in commemoration of his election the previous year, American President Abraham Lincoln commissioned Tiffany & Co. to create a seed pearl parure for his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln.

Some pieces in the show are on loan from the Spanish royal family and the Principality of Monaco — among them the tiara worn by Queen Sofia of Spain during official ceremonies, and the diamond and ruby parure that Princess Grace is seen wearing in the official photographs of her 1956 wedding to Prince Rainier III.

There was a diamond parure somewhere, of purest water, which would become the new marquise amazingly.

Parure, pa-r�r′, n. a set of ornaments, &c.

The parure of colored diamonds -- consisting of a necklace, brooch and pair of earrings -- is being offered from an unidentified private collection at Sotheby’s, also in Geneva.