The D.B.E. insignia attributed to Dame Janet Vaughan (1899-1993), Principal of Somerville College, Oxford, 1945-67, a distinguished haematologist and radiation pathologist, and pioneer of the wartime blood transfusion service

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, D.B.E. (Civil) Dame Commander’s 2nd type set of insignia, comprising lady’s shoulder badge, silver-gilt and enamels, on lady’s bow ribbon, and breast star, silver, silver-gilt and enamels, in its Garrard & Co. Ltd. case of issue, extremely fine (2) £1,000-£1,200

D.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1957: Miss Janet Maria Vaughan, O.B.E., D.M., F.R.C.P. (Mrs. Gourlay), Principal, Somerville College, Oxford.

Sold with family letter of attribution together with various newspaper obituaries from January 1993, and some photocopied pages from her unpublished autobiography ‘Jogging Along’.