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A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III SILVER DINNER PLATES
Lot 102 PROPERTY FROM A FLORIDA COLLECTION

A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III SILVER DINNER PLATES

MARK OF ROBERT AND SAMUEL HENNELL OVERSTRIKING OTHERS, LONDON, 1804

Closed17 May 2012

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A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III SILVER DINNER PLATES
MARK OF ROBERT AND SAMUEL HENNELL OVERSTRIKING OTHERS, LONDON, 1804
Each circular, with a gadrooned border, engraved with a coat-of-arms, marked on reverse
9 7/8 in. (25.1 cm.) diameter; 228 oz. 10 dwt. (7,117 gr.) (12)

Specialist note

The arms are those of Carrington, for Robert Smith, 1st Baron Carrington (1752-1838) of Bulcot, Burton-Joyce, Nottinghamshire, and Banker of London

Anglo-Irish writer Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849) described him as "most amiable and benevolent, without any species of pretension, thinking the best that can be thought of everything and everybody."