23rd Oct, 2019 10:00

Silver & Objects of Vertu
 
  Lot 279
 

Musical Hymn interest - A George III sterling silver provincial mug, Newcastle 1788 by John Langlands and John Robertson

Of baluster form upon a spreading foot, with a plain C scroll handle. One side later engraved with a coat of arms surmounted by a crest of in front of a demi tower, issuant therefrom a bears paw grasping four ostrich feathers in bend sinister, an annulet or, with motto below Ferro Comite. The obverse engraved with a section of musical notes above the lyrics to The day thou gavest, Lord, is ended by John Ellerton (1870). The front with script initials ‘from WT to RHT’, the handle with contemporaneous initials C over I A in cursive script. Fully marked underneath and with makers mark to handle only.

Height – 13 cm / 5.1 inches

Weight – 312 grams / 10.03 ozt

The crest, motto and arms are for Legh Tolson of Dalton, Huddersfield, Yorkshire (1856-1932)

Legh Tolson was born 5 November 1856 in Kirkheaton, the son of cloth manufacturer Robert Henry Tolson (1819-1888) and his wife Eliza (1825-1905) née Whiteley. He attended Huddersfield Collegiate School, Claire Hill. In 1888, shortly before the death of his father, he funded the new west window of the restored St. John the Baptist church at Kirkheaton. The following year, he was elected a churchwarden. In 1891, he paid for a "handsome carved oak screen" and "stalls finished in the same style" for the church, as well as for the parish registers ("which were in a sorely dilapidated condition") to be restored and then housed in a new "strong iron safe". By the time of the 1891 Census, he was living with his widowed mother at 110 Ravensknowle Road, Dalton. He married Charlotte Mary Thomas (1861-1912) in 1904 and then moved into part of Ravensknowle Hall. Charlotte Mary died in March 1912 and Tolson remarried in 1914 to Dorothy Lucy Bacon (c.1878-1958). Legh Tolson died on 17 January 1932, aged 75, at Barton House, Pooley Bridge, Westmorland. His probate record listed effects in excess of £147,000.

Provenance: Christie's New York, 24 Jul 2003, lot 182 ($1,195 incl. premium)

Sold for £380

Includes Buyer's Premium


 

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