A Victorian natural pearl and diamond pendant/brooch, the main cluster centred by an undrilled button pearl of 8.46ct to a surround of twenty four rose cut diamonds and an outer border of fifteen cushion shaped diamonds approximately 4.5mm, supporting a detachable pendant with pierced diamond set link above a diamond capped drop-shaped natural pearl measuring approximately 10.5-10.6mm wide x 18-20mm long, can be worn as a whole or as individual pendants on the conforming necklace of sixty-four natural pearls, pearls measure from 5.2mm-6.9mm, the necklace having its own small detachable diamond clasp, necklace approximately 20.36g, with accompanying reports from The Gem and Pearl Laboratory stating natural saltwater pearls, report numbers 23942 & 23944

Probably a gift from James Tertius Dugdale (1834-1915) to his wife Alice (nee Brooks) (1846-1922). Dugdale and his wife were married in 1868 and it was she who persuaded him to buy Sezincote in 1884, to escape the smoky atmosphere around his cotton factory.