£400 - £600
A GOLD AND ENAMEL ASSOCIATE MEMBER LADIES BROOCH FROM THE ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON, CIRCA 1937
inscribed to the reverse Property of the Lady Violet Vernon - by whom only it may be worn, No 98, 18ct -- 1in. (2.5cm.) diameter
Lady Violet Mary Baring was born on 17 December 1911, the younger daughter of Rowland Thomas Baring, 2nd Earl of Cromer. On 28 January 1937, at the age of twenty-five, she married Major Mervyn Sydney Bobus Vernon, M.V.O. (1912-1991). In the 1947 Lloyd's Register of Yachts he is listed as being a member of the R.Y.S. and owning Varuna.
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