DIAMOND AND SAPPHIRE CLUSTER RING, EARLY 20TH CENTURY
The central cushion-shaped diamond, weighing 1.65 carats, within borders of calibré-cut sapphires and single-cut diamonds, ring size Q
Footnotes:
Provenance:
Lilian Frederica Violette Lucy Imbert-Terry née Hickman (d.1949)
Descent to the current owner

Lilian Hickman was the daughter of Sir Alfred Hickman, 1st Baronet and Lucy Owen Smith. On 23rd January 1917, she married Captain Frederic Bouhier Imbert-Terry (d.1963), son of Sir Henry Machu Imbert-Terry, 1st Baronet and Lydia Moore Stringfield Roberts. Frederic held the office of Justice of the Peace and High Sheriff for Devon. He was educated at Charterhouse School, Godalming in Surrey and Clare College at Cambridge University. He was awarded the Military Cross and gained the rank of Captain in the Devonshire Regiment having served during the First World War. Frederic purchased the Castle of Mey in 1929 and sold the estate to Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother in 1952. For a diamond tiara previously owned by his sister-in-law, see lot 39.

Principal diamond estimated J/K colour, VS1/2 clarity internally with a very small chip to the girdle (assessed unmounted by department). Under 10x magnification signs of solder around the setting. Sapphires are well matched cornflower blue; under magnification surface abrasion seen along facet edges and one is chipped. General wear to mount consistent with age and hoop has been sized larger at base. Unmarked and untested.