Marquess of Anglesey - A pair of George III sterling silver asparagus tongs, London 1811 by William Eley, Fearn, and Chawner

King’s Hourglass pattern, the terminal engraved a coat of arms surmounted by a marquis’s coronet encircled in the order of the garter. Fully marked.

Length – 23.5 cm / 9.25 inches

Weight – 185 grams / 5.95 ozt

The arms are for Padget

For Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (1768 – 1854), of Duke of Wellington and the Battle of the Waterloo fame, who was made the order of the Garter in 1818.