Jewellery, Watches and Objects of Vertu

Of Regimental Interest: A Royal Army Medical Corps diamond brooch, with rod and serpent beneath a crown, set throughout with rose-cut diamonds, the serpent with ruby cabochon eye, with motto beneath ‘In Arduis Fidelis’ against a blue enamel ground, length 2.2cm. £200-260

The motto translates as ‘Faithful in adversity’.