Prompted by Beth’s information above that the necklace remained in the Chetwynd-Talbot family until it was sold in 1960, I found a photograph of Winifred Constance Hester, Viscountess Ingestre, mother of the 21st Earl of Shrewsbury, in fancy dress for the Shakespeare Memorial National Theatre Ball in 1911. She’s wearing what I think is the diamond cluster necklace.
The sale of the necklace in 1960 may have been related to the lengthy divorce suit in which Earl and Countess Shrewsbury were involved between 1958 and 1963.
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