A gift from Cora Crippen to Vulcana

This fine white metal filigree floral brooch, belonged to Cora Crippen, wife of Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen. This brooch was given to Kate Williams by her close friend Cora Crippen a few months before she disappeared. Link.

Kate Williams and William Hedley Roberts were a Strongman act that appeared under the name of Atlas and Vulcana. 

In 1910 Kate Williams was the first to alert the Police to the disappearance of her friend Cora Crippen ultimately leading to the investigation, arrest and execution of Dr Crippen. 
Provenance:This item was removed from Albion House, New Oxford Street by the Grandfather of the Vendor and has remained in family ownership for three generations. Crippen worked at these premises for Munyon's, a homoeopathic medicine company, and then took over the Munyon's office on a franchise basis. He failed to halt Munyon's decline and ended his sixteen year relationship with the firm on the 31st January 1910.