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to include a haematite bead necklace, suspending a dark blue and gold enamelled pendant; a rectangular silver and enamelled brooch; and three pairs of silver and enamelled cufflinks (5) (Dimensions: Length of necklace: 50cm)(Length of necklace: 50cm)Footnote: From the estate of Dr. Virginia Glenn, the bequest of her estate is to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. A medievalist and specialist in the decorative arts, especially goldsmiths’ work and seals, Dr Glenn spent most of her career as a museum curator. Her first job was as assistant in the Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh. Going from Edinburgh to London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, Virginia worked on tapestries as an assistant conservator. Realizing that she really wanted to be a curator, for which a degree was desirable, from 1969-72 she studied for her B.A. in Art History at the Courtauld Institute, and in her last term there got a curatorial job in the Birmingham City museum and art gallery. Here she helped organize and catalogue the important exhibition of Birmingham silver: Birmingham Gold and Silver 1773-1973: an exhibition celebrating the bicentenary of the Assay Office 28 July-16 September 1973. From Birmingham she went on to the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff, where she helped catalogue the major Burges exhibition: The strange genius of William Burges, "art-architect" (1827-1881): a catalogue to a centenary exhibition, ed. J. Mordaunt Crook, Cardiff & London 1981. She returned in 1985 to the National Museums of Scotland, in Edinburgh, a city she loved. A range of activities in the museum included refurbishing the European ceramics and glass galleries, and arranging new European decorative arts galleries, for which she commissioned a huge and ornate silver vase from Malcolm Appleby, goldsmith and gunsmith. This collection of personal jewellery certainly reflects the life of Dr. Glenn.