alternating cushion cut rubies and old-cut diamonds, claw setting, between scrolled shoulders, mounted in gold, total ruby weight approxiamtely 1.10cts, total diamond weight approximately 0.80ct
Provenance:
From the estate of Edward Alfred Alexander Baldwin (1938 - 2021). Edward was the grandson of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, and the fourth Earl Baldwin of Bewdley. Stanley Baldwin was from an extraordinary family: Rudyard Kipling was his first cousin, Edward Burne-Jones and Edward Poynter were both uncles, his mother Louisa was a novelist, and her siblings included the famous Macdonald sisters. Edward Baldwin was committed to rehabilitating his grandfather's reputation and, being an only child, spent much of his life as sole custodian of these family objects. Width at centre 0.5cm / 3/16''
Central ruby approximately 5.10 x 4.50 x 2.10mm Weight: 3.5g
Three stone ruby and diamond line cluster ring, the trio of Burma rubies with largest to centre, of 1.53ct, flanked by two rubies of pigeon-blood colour, 0.76ct and 0.73ct,
Early 20th century ruby and diamond cluster ring, c.1910, the oval facetted Burma ruby of approximately 2.60ct, to a cut-corner rectangular diamond set double border,
Mid-20th century five stone ruby ring, c.1940, with graduated oval cut Burma rubies, approximately 1.55cts in all, claw set in gold, accompanied by SSEF report no. 119629 giving the Burma origin opinon and that the stones show no evidence of heat treatment