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MARK OF FRAZER & HAWS, LONDON, 1895,
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A LATE VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT TAZZA IN EARLY 18TH CENTURY STYLE,
MARK OF FRAZER & HAWS, LONDON, 1895,
With ribbed border, centre engraved with twin armorial shields on brickwork ground, flanked by gryphon supporters & surmounted by a viscount's coronet, on pedestal foot, 11 1/8 in. diameter (28.4 cm.), 26 oz.
MARK OF FRAZER & HAWS, LONDON, 1895,
With ribbed border, centre engraved with twin armorial shields on brickwork ground, flanked by gryphon supporters & surmounted by a viscount's coronet, on pedestal foot, 11 1/8 in. diameter (28.4 cm.), 26 oz.
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Further details
The arms are for the1st. Viscount & Viscountess Halifax of Monk Bretton. Sir Charles Wood, 3rd. baronet, GCB, was an MP(1826-66), at various times Chancellor of the Exchequer, First Lord of the Admiralty & Secretary of State for India. Created Viscount in 1866, Lord Privy Seal(1870-74), he died in 1885, the year after his wife Mary, 5th daughter of the 2nd. Earl Grey.
The engraved arms must have been a memorial as the subsequent Viscount & later the Earls of Halifax were never members of the Order of the Bath.
The engraved arms must have been a memorial as the subsequent Viscount & later the Earls of Halifax were never members of the Order of the Bath.
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