
An interactive detective case for your group
London, May 1965. The pride of the May catalogue is a dragonfly aigrette — Viennese work, plique-à-jour enamel, opals, and a sapphire that makes visitors fall silent. Four days before the sale the insurance inspector asks for a second lamp: on the velvet lies a superb copy. The locks are intact, the logbooks immaculate — and the dragonfly itself has neither hallmark nor history, its biography beginning only in 1946.
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