A small collection of memorial jewellery (5)
28 Jul 2009 11:00 BST Oxford
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Jewellery
A small collection of memorial jewellery
To include a Georgian memorial ring, the circular hairwork panel applied with rose diamond initial beneath enamelled coronet surmount, glazed, to a surround of half pearls and blue and white enamel border, to tapered band, interior inscribed 'Lord Visct Tracy, Obt 29 April 1797, at 64', together with a Georgian brooch, with oval ivory panel painted with initials within a wreath, glazed, to a blue and white enamel border, and three Victorian hairwork and black enamel brooches. (5)
Sold for £336 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • The title Viscount and Baron Tracy of Rathcoole and Baronet of the county of Limerick was created on 12th January 1642 by King Charles 1st, for Sir John Tracy. The 8th Viscount Henry Leigh Tracy was born in 1732 and died 1797.

    See illustration opposite.

Category: Jewellery


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