A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER WAITERS

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER WAITERS
MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1809
Circular and with a shell and palmette decorated gadrooned border, on three leaf and scroll feet, engraved with a coat-of-arms, marked underneath, further stamped '388S'
8¾ in. (22.3 cm.) diam.
35 oz. (1,083 gr.)
The arms are those of Gordon impaling Cornewall, for William Gordon (1772-1823), later Sir William Duff-Gordon 2nd Bt., and his wife Caroline (d.1875), daughter of Sir George Cornewall, 2nd Bt., of Moccas Court, co Hereford, who he married in 1810. He inherited the baronetcy on the death of his maternal uncle, Sir James Duff 1st Bt. in 1815. He assumed the names and arms of Duff together with those of Gordon by Royal License in 1813. (2)