A GEORGE III SILVER TWO-BOTTLE INKSTAND
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A GEORGE III SILVER TWO-BOTTLE INKSTAND

MARK OF THOMAS BLADGEN & CO., SHEFFIELD, 1816

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A GEORGE III SILVER TWO-BOTTLE INKSTAND
MARK OF THOMAS BLADGEN & CO., SHEFFIELD, 1816
The cover of the mounted glass bottle engraved with the Somerset crest; together with a shaped rectangular two-bottle inkstand by Hunt and Roskell, London, 1922, and a third shaped square example by Thomas Bradbury & Sons, Sheffield, 1927
The first 8¾ in. (22.3 cm.) long
42 oz. 2 dwt. (1,309 gr.)
The inscription on the first reads, 'To/Fitz Roy John Somerset./from his Godmother Maud Douro./January 1928'
The inscription on the third reads, 'Thomas Bradbury & Sons, Sheffield, 1927, with inscription PRESENTED TO/The Dowager Lady Raglan/(Chairman of Womens Branch)/SOUTH ISLINGTON CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION/FROM HER FRIENDS/1925-1929'

One given to Fitzroy Somerset, later 5th Baron Raglan, by the Marchioness of Douro (d.1946), in 1928.