’Breath taking’ rare £40,000 gem to be raffled by prison charity
Posted by Iain Brunt on 11/10/2014
- Gem hunter donates 60 carat Mozambican aquamarine
- 1,000 tickets available for a chance to win
- All proceeds go to help Fine Cell Work’s prison inmate rehabilitation
The gem in question is probably one in a million however, when the 60 carat heavy-weight Mozambican aquamarine worth £40,000 is raffled by prison charity Fine Cell Work on 20 November 2014, ticket holders will have a one in a thousand chance to win it.
Gem hunter and merchant, Guy Clutterbuck has generously donated an exquisite, multi-faceted, unheated, cushion-cut aquamarine to Fine Cell Work to raise funds for its invaluable work that helps prisoners in the UK to turn their lives around.
To augment Guy’s generosity, the renowned jewellery designer Georgina Skan, former Head of Design at Garrard and Asprey, has offered to design an exquisite setting and Fine Cell Work will donate £1500 towards the materials. This is an extraordinary fund raising initiative that offers entrants the chance of winning a remarkable piece of jewellery to treasure.
Raffle tickets cost £50 and are available from Fine Cell Work – www.finecellwork.co.uk/raffle and all the proceeds go directly to the work of the charity. The raffle will be drawn at an exclusive party at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office on 20 November 2014. The prize draw aims to raise £50,000.