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Lot 87

DIAMOND SINGLE-STONE RING

7 December 2023, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £20,480 inc. premium

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DIAMOND SINGLE-STONE RING

The old brilliant-cut diamond, weighing 6.26 carats, ring size M

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Provenance:
Diamond from the estate of Lady Dorothea Margaret Wallis née Fowke (1883-1930).

Dorothea was born in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). She married the British lawyer Sir John Edward Power Wallis (1861-1946), Advocate General of Madras (1900-1906) and Chief Justice of Madras High Court (1914-1921). The renowned Scottish engineer, Dr Robert Stevenson (1772-1851), was Dorothea's maternal great-grandfather, famed for the design and construction of lighthouses, and the Scottish novelist, Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), was a cousin.

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