Victorian Royal Irish "Good Luck" Shamrock Pendant necklaces clarity SI1

clarity SI1

Natural Peridot

with applied Japanesque detailing

Natural Rubies

the death of his daughter Amelia is though to have strongly contributed to the King's madness

Victorian Royal Irish "Good Luck" Shamrock Pendant necklaces clarity SI1DATE: Victorian, 1899 This attractive late Victorian pendant was made as a good luck charm, most likely to be given to a member of the Royal Irish Regiments fighting in the Second Boer War in South Africa. The Regiments played an important role in the Battle of Slabbert's Nek (July 1900), and, after fighting in some particularly bloody battles in March 1900, Queen Victorian wrote to General Sir Redvers Buller: "'I have heard with the deepest concern