The Consul Bangle

An Edwardian line bracelet, the old-cut diamonds catching the light along one edge and nowhere else. It is the kind of work that took a bench jeweller a full week, and it has survived a century without a loosened stone. It came to us from a house near Antwerp, still in the fitted box it was put away in. Where it came from, such a piece is simply 'grandmother's' — to the rest of us, it is extraordinary.