Coleridge Collar

The Coleridge Collar is a gold necklace whose provenance is disputed.

It is said to be either a 16th-century chain of office, given by King Henry VIII to his adviser Sir Edward Montagu, on the latter's appointment as Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in 1546; or a 17th-century copy.

[1] However, on 6 November 2008 the purchaser resold it, as a 20-carat original, for more than £300,000, via Sotheby's rival Christie's.

[1] In 2012, Lord Coleridge sued Sotheby's, at the High Court, London, for the difference.

[1] Lord Coleridge lost the case and had to pay some 90% of the costs, about £1 million.