EARLY 20TH CENTURY SIGNED CARTIER PLATINUM AND DIAMOND NECKLACE CLASP. Tongue-and-groove clasp with hinged safety bar centers Old European cut round diamond weighing app. 1.00 ct Estimate $2,000-3,000
PROVENANCE: Estate of Alexandra McCain Morgan and Henry Sturgis Morgan, Jr., Annapolis, MD
By family descent from Catherine Frances Lovering Adams Morgan (1902–1988), daughter of Frances Lovering and Charles Francis Adams III, the U.S. Secretary of the Navy under Hebert Hoover, and a direct descendant of U.S. Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams, and wife of Henry Sturgis Morgan, Sr., co-founder of Morgan Stanley and the President & Chairman of the Morgan Library & Museum.