Second crowned portrait of HM Queen Elizabeth II facing right, wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara.

The Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara was a wedding present in 1947 from her grandmother, Queen Mary, who received it as a gift from the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland in 1893 on the occasion of her marriage to the Duke of York, later George V. Made by E. Wolfe & Co., it was purchased from Garrard & Co. by a committee organised by Lady Eve Greville. In 1914, Mary adapted the tiara to take 13 diamonds in place of the large oriental pearls surmounting the tiara. At first, Elizabeth wore the tiara without its base and pearls but the base was reattached in 1969. The Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara is one of Elizabeth's most recognisable pieces of jewellery due to its widespread use on British banknotes and coinage.

Engraver: Arnold Machin

Fijian throwing club 'I ulã tavatava' divides value.

This club, as highly polished and well crafted as it is, is at its heart a functional object. In Fijian society there were many different types of clubs all distinguished by their design for specific uses. This particular design is named I ulã tavatava, for the deep serrations around the head or tavatava. The name ulã comes from the buttress root of the ironwood tree, a strong hard wood, which was shaped as it grew to produce the sinewy curves of the clubs. It was designed to be thrown from a distance causing injury and the incapacitated victim would be finished off from a close quarter killing blow. Whether this victim was an animal, such as the pigeons or giant fruit bats of the South Pacific, or a human, the club was a highly effective assassination weapon.

Though the club in the exhibition case has little decoration, many clubs had lots of carvings and indentations. They were highly decorated and beautiful objects, full of the ingenuity of the craftsmen and the masculine power of the warriors who held them. From a society which used weaponry to hunt, to defend and attack, clubs like this became a central object useful and symbolic all at once.

Engraver: Ken Payne