“It looks like a piece of candy to me,” Courtney says. She discovered the collectible in the pages of Victoria before procuring her first at a Memphis flea market. To this day, that initial find is her most precious. Manufactured by Birks, the standard-setter of Canadian jewelry, this 1930s antique was marked with a Royal Warrant of Appointment from the Prince of Wales—an indication of the royal family’s patronage, which makes the box all the more valuable.
