Jewellery, Objects of Vertu, Silver and Watches

Royal interest: A Queen Alexandra Royal Presentation stickpin, the blue and white enamelled interlaced double-A cypher beneath the Imperial state crown, mounted in gold, in gilt tooled case by Collingwood & Co., with gilt cypher to cover, length 6.7cm. £400-£600

By family repute, this stickpin was presented to Thomas Edward Goodman - a Royal footman to King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, serving for 20 years between 1899-1919. His supervisor Colonel Sir Arthur Davidson was Equerry to Edward VII and later Queen Alexandra, and was part of the Marlborough House Set, the social circle surrounding Edward VII.