Re: Ruby GRIMA Brooch Archived Message
Posted by Maridje  on October 18, 2015, 1:49 pm, in reply to "Identification of the Brooch Worn by the Queen"
This very modern gold brooch is be the contemporary designer Andrew Grima.
It is a stylised gold flower set with diamonds and carved rubies which had formerly been part of an Indian turban jewel.
By Grima:
the one with the rubies (which stones are formerly part of a an Indian head ornament) was a prize winning piece
It was one of 12 pieces which, as a collection, had won the 1966 Duke of Edinburgh's Prize for Elegant Design, and he later bought it for the Queen.
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