Photogenic gems including Julia Margaret Cameron link

An old photo of a former owner and a memorial inscription will seldom add commercial value to a Victorian locket. However, the example by the Phillips Brothers of Cockspur Street offered by Mallams (20% buyer’s premium) in Oxford on March 21 carried the inscription 'Julia Hay Norman, Died 3rd October 1873'.

She was daughter of the celebrated British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-79).

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