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Last week, the hammer fell on the sale of a remarkable collection of jewelry linked to the former royal family of Württemberg and their close relatives, the Habsburgs. Among the pieces were two lots of diamond star jewelry, part of a fad popularized at the nineteenth-century imperial court in Vienna.