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Description Clip brooch, designed by The Earl Mountbatten
1940s
designed as a monogram P B for Patricia as Lady Brabourne
Condition Report Unsigned. Measuring approximately 35mm long, gross weight approximately 7.4 grams. Overall condition good.
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Provenance Designed by?Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900-1979);
By whom gifted to his daughter Patricia, then, Lady Brabourne on her wedding.
To commemorate important occasions Mountbatten would create jewels for family members of his own design. These pieces often incorporated a monogram or device that had particular relevance to the wearer and the motif could often be used?on a letterhead. One of his most famous designs was a badge for the Supreme Command, which he created in the winter of 1943-44. This, conceived as a rising phoenix, was to be a badge under which those?wearing it could feel sense of unity.The clip-brooch here, is a touching present from a father to his daughter on her wedding day, marking the adoption of a new surname.