QUEEN VICTORIA'S JEWELLERY
HAVE COME BACK TO TURN OUT AEROPLANE PARTS
Craftsmen avlio made beautifully worked diamond brooches, bracelets and other examples of line jewellery Jor the Court of Queen Victoria are! a 1110 nig those who havo come back (rom retirement to their benches in London workshops to add their skill to Britain's war effort. They arc now fashioning delicate parts for aeroplanes, tanks, ships, tor peel ies and bombs, as well as surgical and precision instruments. Some of them arc as old asi 80: in one AAorkshop alone there are asi many as 30 expert craftsmen' between the ages c.f 60 and 80. At least one principal has rceturned from retirement with, the others. Ho is Mr R. C. Antrobus who- organised the! jewellery trade for Avar work in the last Avar. It was Mr Antrobus Avho, in 1930, offered £40,000 for the famous Napoleon necklace which the Emperor Napoleon I presented, to the Empress Marie Lo.uise on the birth of their son, the King of Rome, in 1811. When he retired some A'ears ago, Mr Antrobus Avas head of tho lirm which five generations of his family have directed but lie too l is now back at the bench Avith liiis men.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 62, 8 June 1942, Page 6
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205QUEEN VICTORIA'S JEWELLERY Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 62, 8 June 1942, Page 6
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