Live Auction 6258Mount Congreve: The London Sale
A VICTORIAN SILVER MEAT-DISH FROM THE SMITH SERVICE
Lot 48

A VICTORIAN SILVER MEAT-DISH FROM THE SMITH SERVICE

MARK OF ROBERT GARRARD, LONDON, 1838

Closed23 May 2012

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GBP 18,750

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A VICTORIAN SILVER MEAT-DISH FROM THE SMITH SERVICE
MARK OF ROBERT GARRARD, LONDON, 1838
Oblong with canted corners, with guilloché rim, the border engraved with the Royal arms flanked by the initials 'AR', further engraved with a crest, marked on the back, further stamped 'Garrards Panton Street London'
21¼ in. (54 cm.) wide
99 oz. 10 dwt. (3,094 gr.)

Thomas Assheton Smith (1776-1858), great great grandson of John Smith (1655-1723), Speaker of the House of Commons then by descent to 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, lot 111.
With Partridge, London.