Strauss & co - 16 October 2017, Cape Town

16 1 1 Victorian diamond and pearl brooch designed as a small bird perched on a branch set with rose-cut diamonds and a cabochon ruby eye, flanked by diamond floral sprays set with pearls, Rd No. 183823, length approximately 30mm R –  2 Victorian diamond and citrine brooch in the form of a ribbon set with twenty-nine old- and eight-cut diamonds weighing approximately 0.80 carat, centred by two later claw-set round-cut citrines weighing approximately 0.80-0.85 carat, length approximately 33mm R –  3 Late Victorian gold, amethyst and seed pearl brooch, Cornelius Desormeaux Saunders & James Francis Hollings Shepherd designed as a bar set with a row of seed pearls heightened with a fly, its body tube-set with a round-cut amethyst, lacking one seed pearl, length approximately 50mm R –  3 4 2 4 Victorian amethyst and seed pearl necklace/pendant collet- and claw-set with twenty- nine oval-cut amethysts weighing approximately 80-90 carats, set to the centre with a cross accented with seed pearls, with detachable bale, length approximately 410mm, cased, retailed THOS. SLY, MARKET PLACE, SALISBURY R – 