Gem set and diamond bracelet 1920s collet-set with a series of variously coloured cushion-shaped and oval sapphires and zircons and one hessonite garnet, spaced by links millegrain-set with circular-cut diamonds, length approximately 175mm, French assay marks.
Stones in order from clasp tongue: green zircon, blue sapphire, yellow sapphire, brownish yellow zircon, violet sapphire, green zircon, pale pink sapphire, blue sapphire, violet sapphire, hessonite garnet, green zircon, yellow zircon, pink sapphire, yellow sapphire. Largest central stone (light blue sapphire) gives no message like that from acrostic bracelets.
Possibly a wedding gift to Lady Edwina Ashley from Lord Louis Mountbatten in 1922. The wedding gifts received by Lady Edwina Ashley and Lord Louis Mountbatten were widely reported upon by the press.
The groom gave his bride superb jewels, including a diamond and pearl tiara of five stars (which their daughter Patricia, Lady Mountbatten was to wear to her own wedding), a diamond and turquoise demi-parure, a diamond brooch of the Royal Navy insignia, and interestingly 'a bracelet of precious stones surrounded by diamonds', which could possibly be the present bracelet.
