Victorian "Brittany Until I Die" Silver Band brooch An exceptional Victorian snowflake pendant

An exceptional Victorian snowflake pendant (with detachable brooch fittings) dating from the 1870s

Natural sapphire - 40pts (calculated)

It's taken me a while to get to the bottom of it (a rebus puzzle really needs a native speaker to solve

An absolutely gorgeous pair of Victorian white paste earrings dating from the 1870s

He moved to London in the late 1930s

Victorian "Brittany Until I Die" Silver Band brooch An exceptional Victorian snowflake pendantDATE: Victorian, c. 1800 A remarkable Victorian silver band with the words "Bretange A Ma Vie", translating to Brittany until I die to my life. The St Malo, Brittany symbol, an ermine is applied along with initials of Anne of Brittany, A. Anne of Brittany (1477 1514), the duchess of Brittany and mother to Claude of France, used it to mark her initials on buildings, documents and belongings. There is a legend about Anne and an ermine that explains her