Lot Essay
The inscription reads:
This salver, with Tea and Coffee Service, Cake Basket, Cruet Frame, Fish Carvers, 4 Salts, and 1 Doz. Dessert Knives & Forks, WAS PRESENTED TO Mr. John Horton, of Elliots Hall, Fanworth, Warwickshire, by nearly 500 friends and admirers of his extraordinary courage, in ATTACKING 4 BURGLARS, who entered his house on the night of the 27th January last; and his spirited pursuit and capture of 3 of them, who were transported. May 10th 1853.
This salver, with Tea and Coffee Service, Cake Basket, Cruet Frame, Fish Carvers, 4 Salts, and 1 Doz. Dessert Knives & Forks, WAS PRESENTED TO Mr. John Horton, of Elliots Hall, Fanworth, Warwickshire, by nearly 500 friends and admirers of his extraordinary courage, in ATTACKING 4 BURGLARS, who entered his house on the night of the 27th January last; and his spirited pursuit and capture of 3 of them, who were transported. May 10th 1853.