One of the lost Marlborough gems, sold for £36,000 at Cheffins.
An intaglio ring became the second of the ‘lost’ Marlborough jewels to surface at auction in 2019 when it sold for £36,000 (plus 22.5% premium) in Cambridge.
The Grand Tour-era gold ring with an earlier Roman intaglio of a clean-shaven man was sold at Cheffins on December 12 together with a copy of the hardback Christie’s catalogue from June 1899 of the sale of The Marlborough Gems, at which, according to family tradition, it was bought.