A George III sterling silver chamberstick, London 1806 by William Stroud

Of shaped circular form with a gadrooned and shell with scroll rim. The central column with a wick trimmers cavity, the fluted capital with a detachable sconce with a similarly formed rim. The leaf capped scroll handle with a later Victorian detachable conical snuffer, with flat chased decoration of pendant swags, London 1896 by Thomas Bradbury. The front engraved with a quartered and impaled coat of arms with supporters and motto Patitur qui vincit below, all surmounted by a Baron’s coronet. The sconce with a crest of a mullet between the Horns of a crescent, issuing out of a cloud within two branches of palm in orle, all surmounted by a Baron’s coronet. Fully marked underneath, and to snuffer, the sconce with part-marks.

Length – 19 cm / 7.5 inches

Weight – 541 grams / 17.39 ozt

The arms are for Kinnaird impaling Fitzgerald

For Charles Kinnaird, 8th Lord Kinnaird of Inchture (1780-1826) who married on the 8^th May 1806 Lady Olivia Laetitia Catherine FitzGerald (1757-1858). In 1817 he built the Rossie priory in the parish of Inchture in the Carse of Gowrie.

She the daughter of William Robert FitzGerald, 2nd Duke of Leinster, KP, PC (Ire) (1749 – 1804). Their son George William Fox Kinnaird, 9th Lord Kinnaird, KT, PC (1807-1878) was created in 1831 Baron Rossie, of Rossie Priory in the County of Perth, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom and in 1860 was created Baron Kinnaird, of Rossie in the County of Perth, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.