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AN ANTIQUE DIAMOND, ENAMEL AND PEARL BAR BROOCH, EARLY 20TH CENTURY set with old and rose cut diamonds, accented by two pearls and orange guilloche enamel, no assay marks, 5.4cm, 4.5g. Accompanied by a fitted Garrard box. Provenance: From the collection and inheritance of an aristocratic British family.The heritage of the family extends to and beyond their direct descendent from Henry VII through his daughter Mary Tudor. The family has lineage from English noble families including the Baron St John of Belts, the Earls of Bolingbroke and the Herbert family, the Earls of Pembroke. Three generations of the family held senior military posting in the Indian Army in the 19th century at the forefront of the British Empire. Several pieces are understood to have belonged to Lady Victoria Alexandrina Elizabeth Lambton (nee Campbell), whose mother way Lady Sarah Mary Compton Cavendish (1813-1881). Lady Cavendish served as Maid of Honour to Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1842.

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AN ANTIQUE DIAMOND, ENAMEL AND PEARL BAR BROOCH, EARLY 20TH CENTURY set with old and rose cut diamonds, accented by two pearls and orange guilloche enamel, no assay marks, 5.4cm, 4.5g. Accompanied by a fitted Garrard box. Provenance: From the collection and inheritance of an aristocratic British family.The heritage of the family extends to and beyond their direct descendent from Henry VII through his daughter Mary Tudor. The family has lineage from English noble families including the Baron St John of Belts, the Earls of Bolingbroke and the Herbert family, the Earls of Pembroke. Three generations of the family held senior military posting in the Indian Army in the 19th century at the forefront of the British Empire. Several pieces are understood to have belonged to Lady Victoria Alexandrina Elizabeth Lambton (nee Campbell), whose mother way Lady Sarah Mary Compton Cavendish (1813-1881). Lady Cavendish served as Maid of Honour to Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1842.

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