Jewellery - 28th April 2016
Lot 1218
A George II gold and green enamel aide-mémoire
Estimate £400 - £600 | Hammer £400
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Description
A George II gold and green enamel aide-mémoire, of rectangular form and open topped with vacant pencil compartment and the other containing a 1789 silk-bound Almanack. The fine deep green guilloche enamel sides each centred with a glazed navette-shaped locket and applied with a seed pearl P beneath a baron's coronet and AP beneath a baron's coronet to the other side and both within seed pearl borders. The P probably stands for Pelham. Both sides with cracked enamel. 8.3cm high, 81g.
Provenance: The property of the Earl of Chichester