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An exceptionally fine George II Irish Provincial Cream Jug, with heavy cast flying scroll handle, made from particularly thick silver with centre moulded rim, and three lion mask knuckle and paw feet, faint but discernible STERLING mark indicating Cork or Limerick, approx. 12 ozs, 14.5cms (5 3/4") high. (1)
DROMOLAND CASTLE [Lord Inchiquin].A Visitors' Shooting Book extending from November 1900 all the way to May 1973, oblong quarto, strongly bound in (?) crocodile skin, with engraved silver corner-pieces, and a central silver plaque engraved, 'Presented to The Hon. Lucius O'Brien on the occasion of his Marriage, January 1896, by the employees at Dromoland'.The signatures span a broad selection of the good and the great from seven decades, including Lord Kilmorey, Beatrice and Edward O'Brien, various other O'Briens, [Lord] Granard, Murrough O'Brien, Neville Chamberlain [January 1904], G[uiseppe] Marconi [December 1904, again March 1905 with (his wife?) Beatrice];Annie and Alfredo Marconi [April 1905]; G. Marconi again [Dec. 1905] and repeatedly thereafter; Dermod O'Brien; Gertrude Hammersley; [Lord] Ennismore; [Lord] Aberdeen, July 1908; [Lord] Sligo; Dermod O'Brien, now P.R.H.A. Aug. 1935; Erskine and Ruth Childers Sept. 1945; [Lord] Monteagle and various Spring-Rices; Dwenis Gwynn, April 1948; etc. etc.The Armistice is noted on Nov. 11 1918. The Inchiquins were 'absent from home' August 27th 1924 to May 2nd 1925, visiting the Kenya Colony and Uganda, 'Returned to England on March 24 1925'. In 1939, 'War declared Sept. 3rd 1939' - but the shooting continued undisturbed.A valuable social document, illustrating how slowly the gentry changed their customs - though the lords thin out somewhat after the 1930s. (1)
A very good heavy early George II English silver Salver, possibly by Thos. Farrer, London 1735, the plain body with contemporary engraved coat of arms, surrounded by a shaped rim decorated with masks and shells, on four scroll feet, approx. 28 ozs, & 28cms (11") diameter. (1)
A pair of small George III English silver Dish Covers, London c. 1794, by Benjamin Lever, the handles by Wm. Simons, marked NO. 2 & NO. 6, with scratch weight, each engraved with armorials of Earl Fitzwilliam, Viscount Milton, overall weight approx. 57 ozs. (2)* One of these covers or another of the same set is illustrated in the book "Identifying Antique British Silver," by T.R. Poole, 1988, Bloomsbury, p. 66.
A good George III English silver Entree Dish & Cover, London c. 1794, by R. & T. Makepeace, the plain cover with attached handle over an octagonal base with gadroon border, the lid engraved with attractive coat of arms of the Amherst ? family, overall weight approx. 41 ozs. (2)
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