19th Mar, 2024 11:00
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
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