A VICTORIAN SILVER TREASURY INKSTAND

Los 46
22.09.2022 11:00UTC +00:00
Classic
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£ 4 032
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
VeranstaltungsortVereinigtes Königreich, London
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ID 812212
Los 46 | A VICTORIAN SILVER TREASURY INKSTAND
Schätzwert
£ 3 000 – 5 000
Oblong on four pad feet, the plain body with reeded moulded borders and applied with two scroll side handles, the cover with central hinge, one side a long compartment for pens, the other two inkwells with detachable clear glass liners and a compartment for nibs and stamps, engraved on the cover with coat-of-arms and crest and inside the cover with inscription, fully marked and stamped underneath R.& S. GARRARD LONDON
101/2 in. (26.7 cm.) wide
78 oz. 16 dwt. (2,452 gr.)
The arms are those of Gladstone quartering Glynne for William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), Liberal Statesman and four term Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

The inscription inside the cover reads:
'VIRO ADMODUM HONORABILI
GULIELMO E. GLADSTONE
DECIMUM A NUPTIIS LUSTRUM FELICITER CLAUDENTI
D.D.VIII KAL. AUG. MDCCCLXXXIX

I. M. CARMICHAEL W. B. GURDON H. SEYMOUR
A. GODLEY E. W. HAMILTON R. E. WELBY
G. LEVESON GOWER S. G. LYTTELTON A. E. WEST
H. W. PRIMROSE

QUI SECRETIORIBUS EIUS CONSILIIS ADMISSI
IDEO SE PRAECIPUE FORTUNATOS AESTIMANT
QUOD REBUS PUBLICIS

TALI AUSPICE MAGISTRO FAUTORE AMICO
ALIQUANTULUM INTERESSE CONTIGERIT'

Which translated reads: 'To the Right Honourable William E. Gladstone on his 50thwedding anniversary (literally: on happily concluding the tenth lustrum from his wedding), 25 July 1889, from I. M. Carmichael [etc.] having been admitted to his more secret deliberations consider themselves especially fortunate that public affairs should so greatly interest such a leader, teacher, patron and friend’.

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