GOLD, HARDSTONE AND TURQUOISE CROSS PENDANT, 1870s each tapering arm decorated with various agates including: lapis lazuli; carnelian; malachite and turquoise terminating in filigree trefoils accented with turquoise cabochons, later silver pendant fitting, one turquoise deficient, fitted morocco case, the ivory silk lining gilt stamped J. EDMONDS, Goldsmith & Jeweller, 67, Baker, LONDON, the heel of the case stamped with the case maker's mark G in Gothic script, 95mmx75mm approximately Provenance: Monsignor William Petre, (1847-1893), who became 13th Baron Petre on the death of his father in 1884, a Roman Catholic writer and educator. Ordained in 1874, he founded a school in 1877 at Woburn Park, Addlestone. Run on highly unconventional lines, the school failed in 1884, but undaunted Monsignor Petre established another school at Northwood Park on the Isle of Wight the same year; sadly this too was doomed to failure within a twelvemonth. Presumably these scholastic miscarriages contributed to his early death aged forty-six. Thence by family descent to the present vendor.