19th Mar, 2024 11:00

Silver & Objects of Vertu
 
  Lot 284
 

A rare Victorian sterling silver table service of flatware / canteen, London 1853 by George Adams of Chawner and Co

A rare Victorian sterling silver table service of flatware / canteen, London 1853 by George Adams of Chawner and Co

Admiralty pattern, each engraved to the reverse of the bowl and tines with twin crests, firstly a griffin segregant to sinister, and secondly a stag’s head couped collared. The front die struck with a fouled anchor crowned in a scroll cartouche. Each fully marked and with Navy issue broad arrow incuse mark. Comprising:

8 tablespoons (two 1852/53, same maker, virginal)

8 table forks

8 dessert spoons

8 dessert forks

8 teaspoons (two London 1840 by William Theobalds, virginal)

2 salt spoons

2 sauce ladles

Mustard spoon or ladle (London 1854, same maker, virginal)

Pair of sugar tongs

Fish slice

Basting spoon

Soup ladle

(49)

Weight – 3556 grams / 114.33 ozt

The crests are for Sandys and Hill, as borne by the Baron Sandys of Ombersley

Given that admiralty pattern was a naval issue, the most likely candidate for these crests is Vice-Admiral Hon. Sir Richard Augustus Sandys Hill (1880-1954), son of Captain Arthur Blundell George Sandys Hill (1837-1923) and Helen Emily Trench (1846-1935) and the brother of Arthur FitzGerald Sandys Hill, 6th Lord Sandys, Baron of Ombersley (1876-1961). He held the office of Aide-de-Camp to HM King George V in 1930. He was Senior Naval Officer of the Yangtze between 1931 and 1933. He was appointed Companion, Order of the Bath (C.B.) in 1933.

Sold for £5,000

Includes Buyer's Premium


 

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