Jockey Club, Lady's Badge
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1994
For more information, additional images and to bid on this lot please go to the auctioneer's website, www.noonans.co.uk Jockey Club , Lady’s Badge, a silver and enamel badge by Spink, named (The Marchioness of Hartington), hallmarked London 1994, 44 x 20mm, 11.51g.
Amanda Carmen Cavendish , née Heywood-Lonsdale (b. 1944), styled Marchioness of Hartington from 1967 to 2004 and now the Duchess of Devonshire. Her husband, Peregrine, the present 12th Duke of Devonshire (b. 1944), is well known in the world of horse racing, being elected to the Jockey Club in 1980 and appointed its Senior Steward in 1989. He was the first chairman of the British Horseracing Board, the sport’s governing body, and served in that capacity from 1993-6
Evidence at a glance
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- Photograph views
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- Catalogue references
- 0
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Physical characteristics
- Material (listing wording)
- silver and enamel
- Dimensions or weight (listing wording)
- 44 x 20mm
Identification
- Source note
- Auction-house description published on Invaluable. Attribution and measurements are the auction house’s statements about the photographed example; independent type authentication remains research required.
- Listing object ID
- 203025201
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.
Research required
- Independent confirmation of type attribution and auction-house statements remains research required.