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Because the tiara's comparatively light and the honeysuckle motifs are like little fans

and they sit proud of the head and the backs open, it's a very wearable piece.

Whereas the palm and lotus is very heavy. It's a very wearable piece. Whereas the palm and lotus is very heavy.

It's a stonker.

Yeah.

I always mean to, I always mean to weigh it and I never get round to it.

Welcome to If Jewels Could Talk.

I'm Carol Walton, the voice of jewellery, an author, broadcaster, and the woman who initiated the role of jewelry editor at magazines like Tapler and British Vogue.

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First of all, if you could tell us a little bit about your role at Chatsworth as a curator and what that involves since it's been a family home since the 16th century.

It has, it has.

So I'm the curator of decorative arts,

and what that means at Chatsworth is that I look after the furniture,

the ceramics, the glass, the clocks, the metals, the ephemera,

but more excitingly for me, the jewels and the gems.

So how many things would that involve?

Like thousands? Yes, conservatively,

thousands. If you were to count every plate, every cup, every chair, I mean, you're in the tens of thousands, maybe hundreds, really, if you were going to really count everything. So it's a lot.

One of the things that I probably

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