A GEORGE II STYLE PLAIN SHAPED-RECTANGULAR INKSTAD, on four scroll feet and moulded border, and with two circular inkwells and covers and an octagonal pen holder with detachable pounce sifter and four plain shaped-rectangular pen trays matching the stand, the inkstand and fittings by Arthur and Frank Parsons, 1922, the pen trays with maker's mark HPLP, 1955, all Britannia Standard

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A GEORGE II STYLE PLAIN SHAPED-RECTANGULAR INKSTAD, on four scroll feet and moulded border, and with two circular inkwells and covers and an octagonal pen holder with detachable pounce sifter and four plain shaped-rectangular pen trays matching the stand, the inkstand and fittings by Arthur and Frank Parsons, 1922, the pen trays with maker's mark HPLP, 1955, all Britannia Standard
length of inkstand 15in. (38.5cm.)
(gross 124ozs.)

Lot Essay

This inkstand is modelled as a George I example by Anthony Nelme of 1718, which was exhibited in 1929 at both The Park Lane Exhibition, no. 558 and at The Sleaford House Exhibition, no. 478. It is now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Carter Bequest)

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