A Victorian sterling silver shaving jug, London 1899 by Robert Pringle & Sons

A Victorian sterling silver shaving jug, London 1899 by Robert Pringle & Sons

Of tapering cylindrical form with reeded rims, a loop handle fitted with ivory insulators, the hinged domed lid raised by a trefid thumbpiece. The front engraved with dual crests; out of a naval crown, the sails, an eagle's head, and two arms erect issuing from clouds in the act of removing from a spike a human skull, above the skull a marquess's coronet, all between two palm-branches. The crests above the initials EH G in gothic script cypher. Fully marked to the side and part-marked to the lid.

Height – 16 cm / 6.25 inches

Weight – 217 grams / 6.98 ozt

The crests are for Hamond-Graeme

For Sir Egerton Hood Murray Hamond-Graeme, 5th Baronet (1877–1969) son of Sir Graham Eden William Graeme Hamond-Graeme, 4th Baronet (1845–1920) and Evelyn Emma Murray Lawes (1860-1937).