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Auction: 23002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 70

The Most Noble Order of the Garter, breast Star, gold, silver and enamel, 76mm x 75mm, the reverse engraved 'Rundell Bridge & Rundell Jewellers to His Majesty, His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, and the Royal Family', the Star with enamel damage and repaired, small section detached, worn overall

Sold together with a walking cane, of a classically-early 19th Century style, with a gold-coloured mount to top, attractively embellished with a Garter Star applied in red, white and blue enamels, this with some slight chipping.

It should be noted that the items comprising this Lot were originally offered in a country auction house together with a Holy Bible. This Bible was sold as a separate Lot, named to Henry Edward FitzClarence - later Lord Henry FitzClarence, 2nd son of H.M. King William IV, the property of Miss Annette FitzClarence. It was further inscribed:

"Henry Edward FitzClarence HMS Warspite Port Mahon November 3 1810. Mary FitzClarence Bushy House Middx. This Bible belonged to Henry FitzClarence who went out in 1810 in H.M. Ship Lively 38 & join the Warspite 74, Capt Blackwood he left the Navy a few years afterwards & went into the 10th Hussars & was one of those who signed a round Robin against the Colonel & was in consequence with the others & his elder brother George placed in other Corps & he went to India where he died about 1816 or 17. I went out in the Lively with him & joined the Blake 74 & also with the Wars & went with the Army & in 1824 I married his sister my beloved Mary & this book in his possession which I now have."

Henry Edward Fitz-Clarence was born illegitimately on 27 March 1795 at Richmond, Surrey. He was the son of H.M. King William IV and Dorothea Bland and died, unmarried, in September 1817 at the age of 22.

Lady Mary Fitz-Clarence was born illegitimately on 19 December 1798. She was the daughter of H.M. King William IV and Dorothea Bland. She married General Charles Richard Fox, son of Henry Richard Vassall Fox, 3rd Baron Holland of Foxley and Elizabeth Vassall on 19 June 1824, and died on 13 July 1864.



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Sold for
£4,000

Starting price
£4000