Circa 1907
19mm x 10mm
Provenance: Antoni Sala, cellist
Conjoined VE cypher of Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (1887-1969) in white gold forty-seven old cut diamonds.
Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (1887-1969) was Queen of Spain as the wife of King Alfonso XIII from their marriage in 1906 until 1931, when the Spanish Second Republic was proclaimed. A Hessian princess by birth, she was a member of the Battenberg family, a morganatic branch of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt. She was the youngest granddaughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
Antoni Sala (1893-1945) was an internationally renowned cellist and child progidy who gave a private performance for King Alfonso XIII and Queen Victoria Eugenie at the Miramar Palace in San Sebastián when aged fourteen in 1907. He later triumphantly toured the German Empire, the Low Countries, Great Britain, South America, United States, Canada and the Austro-Hungaran Empire.