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A JEWELLED GOLD BRACELET
Lot 219

A JEWELLED GOLD BRACELET

MAKER'S MARK OF SAMUEL ARNDT, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890

Closed28 November 2011

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A JEWELLED GOLD BRACELET
MAKER'S MARK OF SAMUEL ARNDT, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890
Ogee-shaped, centring stylised diamond-set inscription in Russian 'MAY GOD BLESS YOU', flanked by two diamond and ruby-set five-pointed stars, within shaped border chased with scrolling foliage, the continuous band composed of a series of rectangular links, each chased with triangular motifs with scrolling foliage, rectangular clasp and suspending guard chain, marked inside clasp

Countess Nathalie Louise von Benckendorff (1886-1968), daughter of Count Alexander von Benckendorff (1849-1916), the last ambassador to the Court of St James's before the Russian Revolution.
By descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

Count Alexander von Benckendorff (1849-1917) was a Russian diplomat, who served as Ambassador to Denmark and the United Kingdom. He served at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1868. Having fulfilled diplomatic duties in Italy (1869-1876), Vienna (1886-1897) and Denmark (1897-1903), Alexander Benckendorff was appointed Ambassador Extraordinaire to the Court of St James's in 1903. Benckendorff's main achievement was to strengthen Anglo-Russian relations by arranging the Anglo-Russian Entente in 1907 - an alignment which led to the creation of the Triple Entente.
Countess Natalie Louise von Benckendorff (1886-1968) was the daughter of Alexander von Benckendorff. She married Sir Jaspar Nicholas Ridley, TD, OBE, KCB, on 28 April 1911 in London.