Eva Braun - a drop-shaped beryl and diamond pendant

Eva Braun - a drop-shaped beryl and diamond pendantWhite gold, yellow gold, beryl and diamonds. Very fine jeweller's work, fashioned a jour, one small beryl missing at top, small damage to the beryls on the right. Pendant length 50 mm, total length 25.5 cm, weight 6.5 g. This pendant is known from numerous photos of Eva Braun at the Obersalzberg. Cf. Ernst Baumann/Heinrich Hoffmann, Der Obersalzberg - Brennpunkt der Zeitgeschichte, Langen/Müller Verlag, Munich 1985, p. 200 upper left in the photo with the rabbit. Also Johannes Frank, Eva Braun, Schütz Verlag, Preußisch Oldendorf 1988, photo table p. 240 lower left, Eva Braun with the children of her friend Herta Schneider 1943. And Clemens M. Hutter, Hitler's Obersalzberg, pages 35 and 38. This pendant is mentioned on page two of Eva Braun's 26 October 1944 last will and testament described as (tr) "Jewellry for Frau Gretl Fegelein - 1 beryl pendant with brilliants, drop-shaped.". Cf. Nerin E. Gun, Eva Braun - Hitler, Blick & Bild Verlag, Velbert 1968, p. 176. As with most of Eva Braun's valuable objects, this was probably a personal gift from Adolf Hitler. Provenance: Margarete "Gretl" Braun married Hermann Fegelein 3 June 1944 and Kurt Berlinghoff on 6 February 1954. Hermann Historica, auction 61 2011, lot 7750, hammer price € 12.000. The written certification by Rainer Berlinghoff unfortunately missing.Condition: I -