VICTORIAN 18CT GOLD DIAMOND & SEED PEARL MEMORIAL PENDANT/BROOCH.
£2,950.00
Availability: 1 in stock
VICTORIAN DIAMOND & SEED PEARL CANNETILLE MEMORIAL PENDANT/BROOCH.
BY D C RAIT & SONS
Age/Era: Victorian Antique
Condition: Excellent original with the original gold pin & presentation box
A fine quality Cannetille memorial brooch/pendant with a purple glass (Amethyst?) oval central panel set with a small diamond surrounded by 31 seed pearls. Complete with detachable brooch and pendant fittings. Original glass panel on reverse for a lock of hair or photograph.
In its original fitted box by the famous Scottish Jeweller D C Rait & Sons Glasgow
Overall dimensions: 40mm x 35mm
Tested: 18ct gold
Visitors to our showroom in Taunton most welcome.
D. C. Rait & Sons were a very well known jewellery firm who operated in Glasgow from the 1820s until well into the twentieth century. In 1869, the firm was listed as ‘Goldsmiths to the Queen, Jewellers, Watchmakers and Silversmiths’, and operated from a luxury showroom at 34 Buchanan Street on Glasgow’s main shopping promenade. The goods inside the shop were of such high value that the owners reputedly had the walls and roof lined with iron plates. In March 1869 The Inverness Courier reported that Rait & Sons had ‘been active purchasers of Sutherland gold from the commencement of the discovery, and have assayed several specimens officially’. It noted that ‘these have ranged from 19 to 19¾ carats. Mr Robert Gilchrist, the original discoverer, seems to have been very successful of late at the Kildonan burn, and has supplied Mr Rait with a considerable quantity of gold during the last few weeks.’
