Wendy Ramshaw, (b.1939), one of the most significant British 20th century jewellers, made a gold lapel pin for Dan Klein which unfortunately never got delivered since he died unexpectedly just before it was finished. She has given this pin to the Museum in his memory. Dan Klein was known particularly to the Ceramics & Glass Collections over many years. He was an acknowledged expert in the 20th century decorative arts, firstly through his gallery in Motcomb Street, then as Head of Decorative Arts for Christie’s, Europe and finally as Executive Director of Phillips de Pury. He gave several objects to the V&A collections, including a sugar bowl and cover made by Rosenthal AG, 1908, an earthenware plate with painted and printed decoration, designed by Graham Sutherland and made by Arthur Wilkinson & Co, ca. 1933-34, a Moby Form of glass, gold and enamel by Richard Meitner, Amsterdam, 1997, and a cut and polished glass form, Sublime Transmission, by Sally Fawkes and Richard Jackson, England, 2008. He was above all, a specialist in contemporary glass. The gold pin is exquisitely made and elegantly designed as one has always expected from Wendy Ramshaw.

Wendy Ramshaw's career is remarkable. She has decisively shaped and influenced contemporary jewellery of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Wendy Ramshaw’s design vocabulary can be described as a mature, revitalised version of modernism whose values have so much shaped 20th century architecture and the fine and decorative arts. She has received; an OBE and CBE from the Queen and in 1999, she was made a Royal Designer for Industry.