A GEORGE IV SILVER INKSTAND

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A GEORGE IV SILVER INKSTAND
maker's mark of Paul Storr, London, 1821

Shaped oblong and on four cast leaf-capped lion's paw feet, the sides chased with rosettes and foliate scrolls on a matted ground and with egg-and-dart border, fitted with two detachable inkwells, each with beaded and foliage rim and with detachbale covers with thistle finial, fitted with clear glass liners, engraved with a coat-of-arms, marked on stand, inkwells and covers - 7¾in. (20cm.) long
27ozs. (846grs.)

The arms are probably those of Egerton imapling Cunliffe for The Rev. William Henry (1811-1910), Rector of Whitchurch, Shropshire and Prebend of Lichfield and his wife Louisa (d.1902), daughter of Brooke Cunliffe Esq., whom he married in 1840

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