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Auction: 26003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 384

A superb Queen Victoria presentation brooch/award in gold and diamonds

Presentation brooch/award, with V.R.I. cypher at centre, crowned, the rays of the brooch and cypher all most attractively enhanced with small diamonds, gold, enamel and enhanced with diamonds, by Charles Packer & Co., 76 & 78 Regent St., London, good very fine, in fitted leather case of issue

Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India in 1877 with her cypher Victoria Regina et Imperatrix (Victoria, Queen and Empress) changing at that point. Perhaps this brooch was part of the various gifts taken to be presented to Indian Princes & their Courts.

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Estimate
£1,400 to £1,800

Starting price
£1200