Humphrey Butler has announced the rediscovery of a bracelet from the famed suite of sapphire and diamond jewels made for a young Queen Victoria.
Following detailed research and negotiations by the Pall Mall jewellery dealership, the royal jewel has been sold to a private collector and secured on loan for display in the William and Judith Bollinger Gallery at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Here it has been reunited with the sapphire and diamond coronet designed by Prince Albert and made by Joseph Kitching, partner at Kitching and Abud in 1840, which at $6.5m was saved from export and donated to the V&A in 2017. The price paid for the bracelet has not been disclosed.