A ROYAL GERMAN GOLD TRAVELLING COUVERT

Lot 15
06.07.2023 12:00UTC +00:00
Classic
Prix de départ
£ 30 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Lieu de l'événementRoyaume-Uni, London
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Lot 15 | A ROYAL GERMAN GOLD TRAVELLING COUVERT
Valeur estimée
£ 30 000 – 50 000
A ROYAL GERMAN GOLD TRAVELLING COUVERT

MARK OF LEWIN DEDEKE, CELLE, LATE 17TH CENTURY

Hanoverian pattern, comprising a knife, with facetted square section handle and steel blade, a three prong fork and a spoon with rat-tail bowl, each piece engraved with ‘SD’ cypher below an elector's bonnet, marked on spoon and fork handles with maker's mark only, the knife blade with cutlers mark 'Schmalstig', each with label inscribed in red pen with inventory number partly legible 3.26..

The knife 7 1/4 in. (18.5 cm.) long, the fork 6 1/4 in. (16 cm.) long, the spoon 6 3/8 in. (16.1 cm.) long;

weighable gold 3 oz. 5 dwt. (100 gr.)





Provenance

Presumably Sophia-Dorothea, Electoral Princess of Hanover (1666-1726),

Georg Ludwig, Elector of Hanover and King George I of Great Britain (1660-1727), by descent in the Royal family of Great Britain and Hanover until the death of King William IV in 1837, at which time the two kingdoms became separate under different monarchs,

Prince Ernst Augustus, 1st Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale and King of Hanover (r.1837-1851), fifth son of King George III of Great Britain and brother of King William IV, by descent to his son,

George V of Hanover, 2nd Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale (1819–1878) and King of Hanover until 1866, by descent to his son,

Ernst Augustus II, Crown Prince of Hanover, 3rd Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale (1845–1923) until 1919, then by descent to his son,

Ernst Augustus III, Duke of Brunswick (1887–1953), by descent to his son,

Ernst Augustus IV, Prince of Hanover (1914–1987), by descent to his son,

Acquired privately by the present owner.
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