A PAIR OF GEORGE IV SILVER SALVERS

Lot 75
17.03.2022 11:00UTC +00:00
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£ 8 190
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ID 720645
Lot 75 | A PAIR OF GEORGE IV SILVER SALVERS
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£ 5 000 – 8 000
Each shaped circular on three openwork foliate and shell feet, with openwork foliate border, engraved with a band of foliate scrolls framing a coat-of-arms with crest above, marked underneath and stamped LEWIS ST JAMES'S ST LONDON
22½ in. (57 cm.) diameter
343 oz. (10,657 gr.)
The arms are those of Gerard, almost certainly for Sir John Gerard 12th Bt. (1804-1854). He was a colonel in the 3rd Regiment Royal Lancashire Militia. He married Monica (d.1865), daughter of Thomas Strickland Standish in 1827. He died without issue and the title passed to his younger brother Sir Robert Gerard 13th Bt. (1808-1887), who was created Baron Gerard of Bryn in 1876.
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