An Arts & Crafts stone-mounted silver Pectoral Cross

An Arts & Crafts stone-mounted silver Pectoral Cross, chased with foliate decoration and centred with an oval-shaped garnet cabochon and four moonstones to the raised centre section each terminal mounted with a square-shaped garnet to the raised square mount, engraved to the reverse A.D. IV NON. FEB, Georgio Halford D.D. Episcopo Secundo, Qui Cum EO Apud Rockhamptonenses Collaboraverunt Sacerdotes Hang Crucem Signo Amoris Donodederunt, maker's mark ETWW above A.D.MCMIX, 11cm high, on a fancy-link silver chain, 33cm, with damaged case marked for The Artificers' Guild Ltd, 9 Maddox Street, London

Previously the property of Bishop G. D. Halford, (1865-1948) then gifted to the Rev. Percy Demuth on his death, and thence by family descent. The current owner purchased it directly from the family.

George Douglas Halford was educated at Felstead School and at Keble College, Oxford. Ordained on the 16 February 1890, he went on to be vicar of St. Peter's Church, Jarrow-on-Tyne. He went to Australia in 1897 to form the first Bush Brotherhood of St. Andrew in Longreach, Queensland. The essence of the Bush Brotherhood was for several preferably young unmarried priests to live under the rules of obedience for five years in a community house in a far-flung town bringing Christian nurture to country dwellers who seldom, if ever, had the opportunity to participate in church life. He died in Brisbane in 1948.

Both lots are illustrated in Halford: The Friar Bishop (Church Archivist's Press: 1998), and in which it mentions that he visited Ramsden and Carr on recommendations, page 44.