If only voiceanth were here...

[emonkeygirl]

Posted: 8/5/04 at 11:59am

From Yahoo News:

Maria Callas Jewels to Be Sold at Auction

2 hours, 23 minutes ago

LONDON - Jewelry that once belonged to the famed soprano Maria Callas will be sold at auction, Sotheby's said Thursday.

The sale, to be held in Geneva, Switzerland, in November, will include 11 pieces given to the opera diva by her husband, wealthy Italian industrialist Giovanni Battista Meneghini, in the 1950s.

The most expensive of the jewels is an 11.7 carat marquise-shaped diamond ring that Sotheby's expects to sell for between 68,000 pounds and 100,000 pounds (US$120,000 to US$180,000).

Also on the block will be a chunky, claw-set emerald-and-diamond ring estimated between 45,000 pounds and 78,000 pounds (US$80,000 and US$140,000.)

A ruby and diamond Van Cleef & Arpels brooch was estimated at 28,000 pounds to 45,000 pounds (US$50,000 to US$80,000) and Sotheby's predicted a ruby and diamond necklace would bring in between 52,000 pounds and 78,000 pounds (US$90,000 and US$140,000).

Callas left the jewels to a friend when she died in 1977.

Callas and Meneghini married in 1949, but she eventually left him for Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, with whom she had a stormy relationship until he wed Jacqueline Kennedy in 1968.

The sale is to be held in Geneva's Hotel Beau-Rivage on Nov. 17.

[mominator]

Posted: 8/5/04 at 12:53pm

OK I am not big on jewelery, but .. omg! drool

[emonkeygirl]

Posted: 8/5/04 at 12:58pm

So...shiny...sigh.

[DAME]

Posted: 8/5/04 at 1:28pm

Voiceanth is here. Just giving us the silent treatment. : -(

[emonkeygirl]

Posted: 8/5/04 at 1:45pm

How sad. I posted this specifically thinking of him...
Enjoy anyway, voiceanth! :)

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 8/5/04 at 5:53pm

Maria who? Voice what?

[Zola Q. LaPlaya]

Posted: 8/5/04 at 6:49pm

Maria Callas is the leading role in Masta Class -- Audra's second Tony.

Voice is the guy who came on here and posted an icon of his armpit.