An amber bracelet

Designed as a series of amber beads encased within filigree decorated discs and spaced by large links, to a concealed clasp, length 23.0cm, cased by Richard Angell Green, 82 Strand WC

The item has been XRF tested and found to be 18ct gold

A verbal report from GCS Laboratory was obtained on 14th September 2022 confirming that amber beads are natural.

By repute, this suite was bought in 1874 for the wedding of Marion Sambourne to Punch cartoonist Linley Sambourne. It was passed on to their daughter Maud Messel (née Sambourne) of Nymans in West Sussex and then passed on to Anne Messel who first married Ronald Armstrong Jones (the parents of Tony Armstrong Jones who became The Earl of Snowdon on his marriage to Princess Margaret). Anne then married an Irish peer the Earl of Rosse and took the suite with her to Birr Castle in County Offaly. On her husband’s death she brought the suite back to Nymans and passed it on to Victoria Allison (née Messel).