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Lot 20

TIFFANY & CO., A VINTAGE CLOAK AND DAGGER BROOCH, ...

TIFFANY & CO., A VINTAGE CLOAK AND DAGGER BROOCH, 1993 in 18ct yellow and white gold, designed as a dagger accented by swirling cloak, signed T&Co, full British hallmarks for London 1993, 8.7cm, 19.2g.
TIFFANY & CO., A VINTAGE CLOAK AND DAGGER BROOCH, 1993 in 18ct yellow and white gold, designed as a dagger accented by swirling cloak, signed T&Co, full British hallmarks for London 1993, 8.7cm, 19.2g.

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TIFFANY & CO., A VINTAGE CLOAK AND DAGGER BROOCH, 1993 in 18ct yellow and white gold, designed as a dagger accented by swirling cloak, signed T&Co, full British hallmarks for London 1993, 8.7cm, 19.2g.
TIFFANY & CO., A VINTAGE CLOAK AND DAGGER BROOCH, 1993 in 18ct yellow and white gold, designed as a dagger accented by swirling cloak, signed T&Co, full British hallmarks for London 1993, 8.7cm, 19.2g.

Lot 20

TIFFANY & CO., A VINTAGE CLOAK AND DAGGER BROOCH, ...

Estimate £1,200 - £1,600

Description

TIFFANY & CO., A VINTAGE CLOAK AND DAGGER BROOCH, 1993 in 18ct yellow and white gold, designed as a dagger accented by swirling cloak, signed T&Co, full British hallmarks for London 1993, 8.7cm, 19.2g.

An identical brooch is photographed in The Times article, Rosa Monckton: My extraordinary friend, Diana.

"As she knelt there Monckton was accompanied by Lúcia Flecha de Lima, the wife of the Brazilian ambassador to London, who had become a close friend of Diana’s ever since she and her husband had gone on an official visit to Brazil with Charles and Diana. It was Flecha de Lima who had introduced Monckton to Diana and the three of them had been a close-knit unit. They lunched together, went on holiday together and even had a gold brooch made to symbolise their friendship — a cloak and dagger, to represent the fun that they had escaping the attentions of the photographers who dogged Diana’s every step. It had been commissioned by Monckton, who had brought the New York jewellers Tiffany’s to London and later became the chief executive of Asprey & Garrard.

Flecha de Lima died of cancer in April [2017], aged 76, so Monckton, 63, is the only one of them left alive. “I went to her memorial service”, she said, as she spoke about their friendship to The Times in an exclusive interview to mark the 20th anniversary of Diana’s death. “We were very much the three of us. It was a really strange thing, because I was the only one left standing. It really brought back all the fun we had. We all had brooches, and I often wonder if the boys had found [Diana’s] brooch. We all three had them, because we called ourselves the ‘Three Musketeers’. We were always scurrying around hiding from people. It was a club, membership of three.

I wore mine [at the service] and I thought, ‘Well, I am the only one now who knows what this means.’ ”

Low, Valentine. “Rosa Monckton: My Extraordinary Friend, Diana.” Thetimes.com, The Times, 30 Aug. 2017, www.thetimes.com/uk/royal-family/article/rosa-monckton-my-extraordinary-friend-diana-30cw07ksd. Accessed 9 Aug. 2024.

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