People have been wearing jewelry practically since the beginning of time, and there are few things more enjoyable for the lover of jewelry to page through the many books on the subject to see the intricate designs that have been made throughout the ags.
The Barbor Jewel is one of many pieces of jewelry described in Jewels and Jewelry: 500 Years of Western Jewelry from the World-Renowned Collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, by Clare Phillips.
The Barbor Jewel is a pendant consisting of a sardonyx cameo of Queen Elizabeth I of England, framed with rubies and diamonds in an enamelled gold frame. The cameo is surmounted by a crown made of three rectangualar diamonds, with a cluster of pears descending below the cameo.
The back is decorated with an oak tree.
Family tradition claims that this piece was commissioned by Richard Barbor, a Protestant, who was saved from the stake by Elizabeth’s intervention.
However, experts cast doubt on this story because the style of the enameling, and the queen’s costume, indicate a date of around 1600, fourteen years after the time when Barbor died.
The pendant is also on display at the Victoria and Albert website: 
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