Tiaras, bracelets and…. axes
Bonebakker has been a Royal Supplier to all the 19th-century kings of Orange. In 1865 King William III personally grants the company the right to carry the Royal Crest. William’s second spouse, the German Princess Emma van Waldeck Pyrmont, whom he married in 1879, does the same in 1882. She will become Bonebakker’s most important customer. On 19 May 1950, Emma’s granddaughter, Queen Juliana, also grants Bonebakker ‘the right to carry the Royal Crest with the title of Royal Supplier’.
In the summer months of the years 1892 to 1897, when she resides in the Loo Palace, Queen Emma orders four bracelets. Each one of the matt gold or twisted matt golden bracelets, bear the monogram W. E & crown: the W set with rubies or sapphires, the E and the crown set with brilliant cut diamonds. Each of the monograms can also be worn as a brooch.
