Georgian Reliquary Carnelian Imperial Topaz Gold & Pearl Crucifix horse_cufflinks Retailed by Boodle & Dunthorne

Retailed by Boodle & Dunthorne

Almost a shame to wear it (but a bigger shame not to

its nearly all silver gilt

Age: c1830-40 Early Victorian

square oval shape)

Georgian Reliquary Carnelian Imperial Topaz Gold & Pearl Crucifix horse_cufflinks Retailed by Boodle & DunthorneDescription: Very unusual (indeed it's certainly one of a kind) devotional cross. It has a tiny locket compartment for a lock of hair or perhaps a tiny bone fragment from a saint or other holy person. The front with imperial topaz and seed pearls is particularly well made and very sparkly. Almost certainly made for a man of the clergy and would have been an expensive and difficult thing to have made. Age: Late 18th century 1st quarter 19th century