Congratulations LauraM!!

What wonderful finds about both brooches!

Your information certainly makes sense of the reports which spoke of the Montreal brooch having a fleur de lys superimposed in diamonds.

I wonder how the mix up in the boxes occurred? Even more interesting is that no one at Christie's tried to reconcile a signed piece of jewellery with an officially inscribed box with the stamp of a rival jeweller!! Even more baffling are the conflicting inscriptions.

Again congratulations!!