Re: British sapphire and emerald flower brooch identified Archived Message
Posted by Beth on July 12, 2015, 2:12 am, in reply to "Re: British sapphire and emerald flower brooch identified"
One thing which surprised me on reading that this was a wedding gift from Earl Fitzwilliam is that it would have been a rather modest gift, as, at the time, the Earl was enormously rich (and the family had been so for a long time). Perhaps this was a token gift if the Fitzwilliams were not personal friends.
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