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Lot 193
SET OF SIX FRENCH SILVER COFFEE SPOONS, EACH WITH A TOWN CREST FINIAL BY AD, 2nd STANDARD (38.1g), SET OF SIX PLATED COFFEE SPOONS, EACH WITH A "WEDDING" FINIAL, SET OF SIX PAIRS OF FISH KNIVES AND FORKS EACH WITH A MOTHER-OF-PEARL HANDLE, TWO OTHER SETS OF CUTLERY, ALL CASED, SIX GILT COFFEE SPOONS, BOXED, OTHER CUTLERY, NINE BOTTLE TICKETS AND THREE CERAMIC TICKETS [A LOT]
Lot 34
1830s English ceramic anti-slavery wares.A Sunderland pink lustreware jug decorated to one side with a ship under full sail and to the other with an anti-slavery poem; and a Turnbull, Staffordshire earthenware plate with a scene of a prayer meeting in Uncle Tom's Cabin; also a 1983 Wedgwood jasperware dish commemorating 150th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1833; and an enamelled bronze figural match holder in the form of a slave, labelled to base, 'Gustavus Olouda Equiano'. (4) Height of jug 4.50Other Notes: Olouda Equiano (c. 1745-97) was a writer and abolitionist from the Igbo region of what is today southeastern Nigeria. Enslaved as a child, he was taken to the Caribbean and sold as a slave to a captain in the Royal Navy, and later to a Quaker trader. In 1766 he earned his own freedom by intelligent trading and careful savings. He was a prominent abolitionist and his autobiography, published in 1789, helped in the creation of the Slave Trade Act 1807, which curbed the slave trade in the British Empire. 4.50in. (11.4cm)
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