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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
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