A Fanciful Victorian Silk, Sequin & Paste Stone Garter sub-Antiques The panel is signed lower

The panel is signed lower left ‘J Bell’

against a bright yellow background

The neck has a chipped crack to it but the rest of the whole is sound and the labels still vivid

Males of the species are generally between 2 and 2

Provenance: Embroidered ‘RW’

A Fanciful Victorian Silk, Sequin & Paste Stone Garter sub-Antiques The panel is signed lowerOrigin: English Period: Mid Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1850 Length: 14 inches Width: 1. 25 inches Once worn by a lady of rank and fashion, in turquoise peacock blue flecked with gold sequins spelling out the latin Honi soit qui mal y pense and terminating in a devils tail paste stone buckle. As this garter is around one hundred and fifty years old there are some sequins and paste stones missing and one end is slightly frayed with