Live Auction 7731Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
THE CORONATION ROBES OF THE EARL AND COUNTESS OF TUNIS
Lot 285

THE CORONATION ROBES OF THE EARL AND COUNTESS OF TUNIS

Closed2 June 2009

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GBP 10,000

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THE CORONATION ROBES OF THE EARL AND COUNTESS OF TUNIS
Comprising: an earl's coronet, with maker's mark only for A. J. Strachan, London, circa 1838, supplied by Ede & Ravenscroft, Chancery Lane; a countess' coronet, mark of A. J. Strachan, London, 1838; an earl's robe, supplied by Adams & Ede, Fleet Street; a countess' robe, dress and mantle (5)

The Earl of Norbury, according to a label in the earl's robe, probably for Hector John Toler, 2nd Earl of Norbury (1781-1839).
Acquired by Harold Alexander, Earl Alexander of Tunis, (1891-1969) and his wife Lady Margaret Diana Bingham, daughter of the 5th Earl of Lucan (d.1969) for the coronation of H.M. Queen Elizabeth II.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's New York, 27 March 1996, lot 397.