More than academic, a scholar’s jewellery
THE provincial scene is nothing if not surprising. The Guildford Auction Rooms received a call from a firm of London solicitors earlier this year to sell a large cardboard box of jewellery from the estate of Marian Wenzel an academic who taught the history of jewellery design.
It was assumed that these were costume pieces but Wenzel, who had collected (on a fairly meagre budg…