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A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE I SILVER DINNER PLATES

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13.10.2023 10:00UTC -04:00
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ID 1027668
Lot 358 | A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE I SILVER DINNER PLATES
A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE I SILVER DINNER PLATES

MARK OF DAVID WILLAUME, LONDON, 1725, BRITANNIA STANDARD

Each plain circular, engraved on the border with the Royal arms and a crest, marked on undersides and engraved with scratch weights

9 7/8 in. (25 cm.) diameter

225 gr. 4 dwt. (7006 gr.)





Provenance

Captain William Smith (d.1773), son of John Smith (1655-1723), Speaker of the House of Commons, by descent to his nephew,

Thomas Assheton Smith (1725-1774), who assumed the additional name of Smith in 1774 following the death of his maternal uncle, William Smith in 1773, by descent, father to son, until his grandson's widow, who left the Welsh estates to her husband's great-nephew on her death in 1858,

George William Duff-Assheton-Smith (1848-1904), by descent to his great nephew,

Sir Michael Duff, 3rd Bt. (1907-1980), of Vaynol, Caernarfonshire, sold,

Sir Michael Duff, Bt.; Christie's, London, 10 December 1958, lot 117, 118, 120-123.

With S.J. Philips, London.

With Mrs. Filomena 'Fay' Plohn (1924-2009) of New York, sold,

The Plohn collection; Sotheby's, London, 15 October 1970, lot 26.

The Collection of the Rothschild family.

By descent to the present owners.
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