A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT AND CORAL RATTLE
Lot 382

A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT AND CORAL RATTLE

MARK OF THOMAS BROUGH, LONDON, 1798, RETAILED BY CRICHTON, 22 OLD BOND STREET

Closed8 July 2010

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GBP 3,000

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A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT AND CORAL RATTLE
MARK OF THOMAS BROUGH, LONDON, 1798, RETAILED BY CRICHTON, 22 OLD BOND STREET
With two tiers of four bells dependent and bright-engraved with bands of trailing leafage, coral teething stick, engraved later with a viscount's coronet below initial 'A', in later fitted box Brothers, 22 Old Bond St.
6 in. (15 cm.) long
The initial is almost certainly that of Edward John Spencer, Viscount Althorp and later 7th Earl Spencer.

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Crichton Brothers were established around 1890 by Lionel Alfred Crichton at 29 Church Street, Kensington. They opened their shop at 22 Old Bond Street in 1895 and remained there until the 1950s. This