Lot #181 - A set of eight silver-plate dinner & eight desert plates (1852)
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Auction House:Mossgreen
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Sale Name:A Collection from Thomas Hamel Interiors & Martyn Cook Antiques
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Sale Date:20 May 2012 ~ 2pm
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Lot #:181
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Lot Description:A set of eight silver-plate dinner & eight desert plates (1852)
Field Marshal Viscount Gough's Dinner & Desert Plates engraved with his crests of augmentation. Elkington & Elkington Mason & Co, silver plate marked "M" Elkington in shield, date letter P corresponds with 1854 an internal "factory" mark not regulated by law, compatible with inscribed date of 1852, a plate inscribedmark of West & co of Dublin retailers. Viscount Hugh Gough KP, GCSI, KCB, PC 1779-1869, a British Army officer is said to have commanded in more general actions than any other British officer of the 19th century except the Duke of Wellington.
26cm diameter -
Estimate:A$1,500 - 2,500
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Realised Price:
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Category:Silver
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