Live Auction 6258Mount Congreve: The London Sale
A SET OF FIFTY-SIX GEORGE III SILVER TABLE-FORKS FROM THE SMITH SERVICE
Lot 42

A SET OF FIFTY-SIX GEORGE III SILVER TABLE-FORKS FROM THE SMITH SERVICE

MARK OF THOMAS CHAWNER, LONDON, 1777

Closed23 May 2012

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GBP 4,750

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A SET OF FIFTY-SIX GEORGE III SILVER TABLE-FORKS FROM THE SMITH SERVICE
MARK OF THOMAS CHAWNER, LONDON, 1777
Old English pattern, engraved with a cypher 'AR' within Garter motto and below the Royal crown, further engraved with a crest
121 oz. 8 dwt. (3,776 gr.) (56)

Thomas Assheton Smith (1752-1828), grandson of John Smith (1655-1723), Speaker of the House of Commons, then by descent to his son's widow, who left the Welsh estates to her husband's great-nephew on her death in 1858
George William Duff-Assheton-Smith (1848-1904) and then by descent to his great nephew
Sir Michael Duff, 3rd Bt. (1907-1980).
Sir Michael Duff, Bt.; Christie's London, 10 December 1958, lots 97 and 98 (part).