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MARK OF JOHN MORTIMER AND JOHN SAMUEL HUNT AND MARK OF JOHN SAMUEL HUNT, LONDON, 1839, 1840, 1841 AND 1842
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A VICTORIAN SILVER DINNER-SERVICE
MARK OF JOHN MORTIMER AND JOHN SAMUEL HUNT AND MARK OF JOHN SAMUEL HUNT, LONDON, 1839, 1840, 1841 AND 1842
Each piece with ribbon-tied reeded and foliage-cast border, engraved with a coat-of-arms, comprising: seven meat-dishes, further later engraved with a coat-of-arms below a coronet and with a pair of Old Sheffield plate dish-covers, with silver finials, one cast as a melon and foliage, the other cast as peas and foliage
the meat-dishes graduating from 17 1/8 in. (43.5 cm.) to 23 ¼ in. (59 cm.) wide
A pair of entree-dishes and covers, the covers lobed and with cast melon and foliage finial, one finial apparently unmarked
the dishes 11 1/8 in. (28 cm.) diam.
weight of silver 570 oz. 8 dwt. (17,740 gr.)
The arms are those of Holford quartering Stayner, Nutt and Lade, for Robert Stayner Holford (1808-1892) of Westonbirt, co. Gloucester. He succeeded his father in 1839 and married Mary-Ann, daughter of General James Lindsay of Balcarres, co. Fife, in 1854. He rebuilt the family seat and created the now world famous arboretum.
MARK OF JOHN MORTIMER AND JOHN SAMUEL HUNT AND MARK OF JOHN SAMUEL HUNT, LONDON, 1839, 1840, 1841 AND 1842
Each piece with ribbon-tied reeded and foliage-cast border, engraved with a coat-of-arms, comprising: seven meat-dishes, further later engraved with a coat-of-arms below a coronet and with a pair of Old Sheffield plate dish-covers, with silver finials, one cast as a melon and foliage, the other cast as peas and foliage
the meat-dishes graduating from 17 1/8 in. (43.5 cm.) to 23 ¼ in. (59 cm.) wide
A pair of entree-dishes and covers, the covers lobed and with cast melon and foliage finial, one finial apparently unmarked
the dishes 11 1/8 in. (28 cm.) diam.
weight of silver 570 oz. 8 dwt. (17,740 gr.)
The arms are those of Holford quartering Stayner, Nutt and Lade, for Robert Stayner Holford (1808-1892) of Westonbirt, co. Gloucester. He succeeded his father in 1839 and married Mary-Ann, daughter of General James Lindsay of Balcarres, co. Fife, in 1854. He rebuilt the family seat and created the now world famous arboretum.
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