3-016-819 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

National token from South Wales to the Princess of Wales, 1864. '...the badge and its casket...[were] manufactured by Messrs. Hunt and Roskell...The upper part of it, composed of emeralds, diamonds, and pearls, is shaped like a bouquet...The centre of the bow is transfixed with a diamond pin, from which the leek (the badge of Wales) is suspended by a gold chain. The leek is mounted on a ground of diamonds thrown out in high relief, and the leaves and bud are formed of emeralds of various tints...The whole is inclosed in a richly-wrought frame of gold and enamel in cinque-cento style, studded with diamonds and emeralds, to which there are three pendants with enamel pictures, in frames enriched with emeralds and diamonds. The centre pendant represents St. David, Archbishop of Caerleon, the patron saint of the Principality...The right-hand pendant represents the dragon of Wales, the banner and crest of the Principality...The pendant on the left side contains the arms of Wales in enamel...[At the centre of] the bracelet...is a fine emerald surrounded by diamonds, the circlet formed of leeks entwined with a scroll...The leaves and buds of the leeks are composed of emeralds, the bulbs of pearls, the fibres of gold set with fine brilliants'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.