Stalingrad Class Heavy Carrier (D8) Stasi Class Patrol Craft (D8) Next. “To see them up for auction today is a unique opportunity for collectors around the world to own a piece of French royal history,” Fawcett said. Operation Revenge (D8) Oracle Class Escort (D8) Orestes Class Escort (D8). “Despite Marie-Antoinette’s capture in the French Revolution and her unfortunate death in 1793, the bracelets survived and were passed on to her daughter, Madame Royale, and then the Duchess of Parma,” said Max Fawcett, head of Christie’s jewelry department, referring respectively to Marie-Therese of France, the couple's daughter, and Princess Louise d'Artois, who died in 1864. The bracelets, commissioned around 1776, were kept within royal lineage for over 200 years, Christie’s said. The auction house said the famed royal and wife of King Louis XVI was known to have carefully wrapped her jewels in cotton herself, hoping to keep them outside revolutionary France - which ultimately took her life via the guillotine. The bracelets are billed as one of the last remaining vestiges of Marie Antoinette’s rich jewelry cabinet that are still available for sale. A text listing of all ships, vehicles, bases, and stations from A-Z. Christie’s is putting up on Tuesday an eye-popping pair of heavy bracelets from the 18th century that are studded with three rows of small diamonds.

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