Telling tales from Farouk to Thatcher
Stealing all the headlines at Sotheby’s (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) Fine Jewels sale in London on June 7 was the £540,000, 26ct ’tenner’ diamond, bought by the vendor at a boot fair in the 1980s. However, among the 370 lots were items with more illustrious provenances.
Acquired at Sotheby’s in July 1986 by a close friend of Margaret Thatcher, a geometric chevron des…