A gift from a doomed Duke
This cased Austro-Hungarian gold and enamel brooch/pendant with a diamond-set monogram and coronet was the gift of Archduke Franz Ferdinand to Mary Marshall, the head housekeeper at Welbeck Abbey, country residence of the Dukes of Portland, from the 1890s until her retirement in 1923.
It comes to sale at Sworders of Stansted Mountfitchet on December 3 together with a series of lette…