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THE PEER AND PEERESS`S ROBES AND CORONETS OF LORD AND LADY SANDYS

Lot 222
29.11.2023 10:30UTC +00:00
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£ 8 190
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1071112
Lot 222 | THE PEER AND PEERESS'S ROBES AND CORONETS OF LORD AND LADY SANDYS
Estimate value
£ 1 500 – 2 500
THE PEER AND PEERESS'S ROBES AND CORONETS OF LORD AND LADY SANDYS

Worn at the Coronation of HM Queen Elizabeth II, Westminster Abbey, 2 June 1953

A Baron’s purple velvet robe trimmed with white miniver fur, the ermine cape bearing two rows of ‘tails’; companion gilt-and-silvered-metal Baron’s coronet bearing six ‘pearls’, both with maker’s label ‘EDE. SON & RAVENSCROFT./ESTABLISHED 1689./BY SPECIAL APPOINTMENTS/TO THE KING & QUEEN./93. & 94. CHANCERY LANE. W.C.’ and inscribed ‘Lord Sandys.’; a Baroness's purple velvet short-sleeved robe, edged with miniver and lined with white satin, with accompanying trained cloak with a short ermine capelet bearing two rows of ‘tails’ and gilt cordons to the shoulders; companion solid silver coronet bearing six ‘pearls’, with mark 'Hunt & Roskell Ltd/Late Storr & Mortimer' and stamped on lower rim '3068', both with maker’s label ‘EDE. SON & RAVENSCROFT./ESTABLISHED 1689./BY SPECIAL APPOINTMENTS/TO THE KING & QUEEN./93. & 94. CHANCERY LANE. W.C.’ and inscribed ‘Lady Sandys.’; together with a Peer’s parliamentary robe of scarlet wool with a wide miniver collar, applied with three bands of wide gilt-and-miniver bands, and lined with white silk taffeta, inscribed ‘Lord Sandys’ to the neck; a further solid silver Baron’s coronet frame lacking three ‘pearls’, with mark 'Hunt & Roskell Ltd/Late Storr & Mortimer' and stamped on lower rim '3067'; another of gilt-metal; together with a Royal Summons to attend the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II 2nd June 1953, dated 1st December 1952; a group of six various Orders of Service for the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2 June 1953





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The robes and complete coronets used for the coronation of HM Queen Elizabeth II by Arthur Sandys Hill, 6th Baron Sandys (1876–1961) and Cynthia, Lady Sandys (d.1990) and by descent.
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