LONDON, 1808, MAKER'S MARK WE, PROBABLY FOR WILLIAM ELLERBY

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A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT SNUFF-BOX
LONDON, 1808, MAKER'S MARK WE, PROBABLY FOR WILLIAM ELLERBY
Oblong and with basket-weave decorated cover, base and sides, later engraved inside hinged cover 'Francis Saxham Elwes Drury' above a crest, marked on bezel and on edge of cover
3 in. (78 mm.) long
4 oz. (115 gr.)
The crest is that of Drury, for Francis Saxham Elwes Drury

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Lot Essay

Francis Saxham Elwes Drury was the son of the Rev. Henry Drury, Archdeacon of Wiltshire, and the great-grandson of the Rev. Joseph Drury, D.D. (1750-1834), headmaster of Harrow School. Lord Byron wrote of him in his works relating to his school days. Drury's grandfather, Henry Thomas Joseph Drury (1778-1841), was assistant headmaster at the school for 41 years. Francis Drury commissioned a detailed history of the family in 1937, (A. Campling, A History of the Drury Family, London, 1937).

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