Countess Mara Red & Gold Diamonds on Dark Blue Men’s Tie

100% Silk, Made in USA

Approximately 59" long x 3 3/4" wide at front point.

Minimal wear. Clean. Photos are of the actual item for sale.

Features a geometric diamond pattern against a dark blue background. The diamonds are primarily in shades of gold/yellow and red, with some blue accents within the diamond shapes, and a textured outline in brown/gold.

From Wikipedia:

Countess Mara, founded in 1935 by Lucilla Mara de Vescovi, was an Italian menswear fashion label specialising in high-end pictorial neckties. The brand has been owned by Randa Accessories since 1998.

Lucilla Mara de Vescovi was born in Rome, Italy, in 1893. Daughter of a very wealthy medicine professor of the University of Rome, descendant of an ancient noble family from the Veneto, and, from her mother’s side, from baroness De Gleria from Trieste.Her brother Silvio, medical doctor and mining engineer, survived the sinking of the Lusitania.

She married Malcolm Whitman, an American singles tennis champion, in 1926. In 1930, following an argument about her husband's dull ties, his wife made him one from silk dress material. Following Whitman's death in 1932, she travelled through Europe, purchasing fabrics that she brought back to New York with the intention of launching a career making men's ties. Vescovi Whitman founded Countess Mara, her men's neckwear company, in 1935. While Mara was her second name, the company name might have been inspired by an 18th-century Kneller portrait of the Countess de Mar wearing a loosely tied Steinkirk cravat.

The Countess Mara brand was purchased in March 1998 by Randa Accessories, a major manufacturer and distributor of men's neckwear.