Jewellery, Watches, Silver & Objects of Vertu

A British Red Cross Society Honorary Life Member brooch, set with vari-cut rubies, sapphires and single-cut diamonds, with blue, white and red enamel detailing, stamped ‘18ct’, maker’s mark, length 28mm. £800-£1,200

Formerly the property of Marion Grace Disraeli (1875-1963), wife of Coninsgsby Disraeli, a nephew of Benjamin Disraeli, and heir to the title Earl of Beaconsfield. Marion Grace was the daughter of Edward Silva of Tescombe in Hampshire. She married Coningsbury Ralph Disraeli, MP for the Altrincham Division of Cheshire, on 2 March 1897, She was awarded an OBE and was a Dame of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. She died in 1963 aged 87, and was buried at St. Michael and All Angels Church, Hughenden, Wycombe, in Buckinghamshire.