Advertisement for a Sotheby's auction on October 19, 1998, in W Magazine, from one of my many inspirations binders...
I don't know anything about Betsey Cushing Whitney, other than the fact she once owned this magnificent diamond necklace. And then at some point in 1998, her necklace was auctioned by Sotheby's. Did she die? Or did she lose all her money in the 1997 crash? Or did she simply tire of this necklace, cashing it in for something newer because it was given to her by a former husband who had moved on to a younger model???
In today's Googly information age, it's easy enough to find answers to nosy questions like these. But I am just going to leave it to my imagination. Whoever commissioned this necklace had sublime taste in jewels.
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