LONDON (AP) _ A gold chain of office King Henry VIII is thought to have given to a Lord Chief Justice was sold at auction Thursday for more than 310,000 pounds ($490,000).
The intricate work, known as the Coleridge Collar, is the only known complete example of its type from Henry’s reign, according to Christie’s auctioneers.
The chain, dated to 1546 or 1547, is thought to have been given to Sir Edward Montagu, who was Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, one of 16 executors of Henry’s will and governor to his heir, Edward VI.