A GEORGE I SILVER TOILET BOX AND COVER

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A GEORGE I SILVER TOILET BOX AND COVER
MAKER'S MARK OF ISSAC LIGER, LONDON, 1716, BRITANNIA STANDARD

PLAIN CIRCULAR AND ON MOULDED RIM FOOT, THE DETACHABLE COVER ENGRAVED WITH A COAT-OF-ARMS WITHIN RIBBON-TIED DRAPERY MANTLING BENEATH AN EARL'S CORONET, MARKED ON BASE AND COVER AND ENGRAVED WITH SCRATCH WEIGHT 24=18 - 5IN. (12.6CM.) DIAM.
24OZS. (770GRS.)

THE ARMS ARE THOSE OF BOOTH, FOR GEORGE, 2ND EARL OF WARRINGTON
Provenance
GEORGE BOOTH, 2ND EARL OF WARRINGTON AND THEN BY DESCENT TO
CATHERINE, LADY GREY AND SIR JOHN FOLEY GREY BART., 20 APRIL 1921, LOT 133 (#136 TO C)
Literature
GEORGE, 2ND EARL OF WARRINGTON, THE PARTICULARS OF MY PLATE AND ITS WEIGHT, 1750, P. 4
MY CHAMBER PLATE OZ DT
A ROUND POWDER BOX AND LID
24=18

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