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A VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT SHAPED-OBLONG CITY OF CARDIFF FREEDOM CASKET, on four dolphin feet and with rope swags, foliate chased panels and applied cartouches and hinged cover flanked by ostriches and elephants and applied with Welsh dragons and with stylised ship and globe finial painted with the African continent and surmounted by the figure of Victory, the sides enamelled with the arms of the City of Cardiff and the monogram HMS, by Edgar Finley and Hugh Taylor, 1890, retailed by J. T. Barry and Sons, 8 & 9 Duke Street Cardiff, containing the leather ended scroll which records Stanley's admission as an Honary Freeman of Cardiff and a minature leather bound calendar for 1891, in fitted silk lined leather box containing an ebonised wood plinth with plaque engraved with an inscription
12in. (30.7cm.) long
The inscripion reads 'PRESENTED TO HENRY MORETON STANLEY ESQUIRE WITH THE HONORARY FREEDOM OF THE COUNTY BOROUGH OF CARDIFF, IN RECOGNITION OF THE GREAT AND IMPORTANT SERVICES RENERED TO CIVILIZATION AND COMMERCE THROUGH HIS EXPLORATION AND TRAVELS RESULTING IN THE OPENING OF THE RESOURCES OF THE VAST CONTINENT OF AFRICA. 1890. ALDERMAN WILLIAM SANDERS J.P. MAYOR J.L. WHEATLEY TOWN CLERK.'
12in. (30.7cm.) long
The inscripion reads 'PRESENTED TO HENRY MORETON STANLEY ESQUIRE WITH THE HONORARY FREEDOM OF THE COUNTY BOROUGH OF CARDIFF, IN RECOGNITION OF THE GREAT AND IMPORTANT SERVICES RENERED TO CIVILIZATION AND COMMERCE THROUGH HIS EXPLORATION AND TRAVELS RESULTING IN THE OPENING OF THE RESOURCES OF THE VAST CONTINENT OF AFRICA. 1890. ALDERMAN WILLIAM SANDERS J.P. MAYOR J.L. WHEATLEY TOWN CLERK.'
Provenance
Henry Morton Stanley Esq., and thence by descent