A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III SILVER DINNER-PLATES
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A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III SILVER DINNER-PLATES

MARK OF SEBASTIAN AND JAMES CRESPELL, LONDON, 1765

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A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III SILVER DINNER-PLATES
MARK OF SEBASTIAN AND JAMES CRESPELL, LONDON, 1765
Each shaped circular with gadrooned rim, engraved with a coat-of-arms, each marked on the reverse, eleven further numbered and engraved with a scratchweight 'No 23 17=1'; 'No 25 17=5'; 'No 26 17=9'; 'No 27 16=19'; 'No 28 17=14'; 'No 29 17=8'; 'No 30 17=8'; 'No 31 17=13'; 'No 32 17=13'; 'No 33 17=15' and 'No 35 17=11'
9½ in. (24 cm.) diam.
204 oz. (6,349 gr.)
The arms are those of Mahon impaling Moore, for Maurice Mahon M.P. (1738-1819), later crested 1st Baron Hartland of Strokestown, co. Roscommon in 1800 and his wife Catherine, daughter of Stephen 1st Viscount Mountcashell of Cashell (d.1790), whom he married in 1765. (12)
Provenance
Maurice Mahon M.P. (1738-1819), later 1st Baron Hartland of Strokestown, co. Roscommon, and then by descent to
Major Denis Mahon (1787-1843), of Strokestown, co. Roscommon and then by descent to his daughter
Grace Catherine Mahon, who married Henry Sandford Pakenham (d.1893) in 1847 and then by descent to their son
Henry Pakenham-Mahon and then by descent to his daughter
Olive, who married as her second husband Wilfrid Stuart Atherstone Hales, who changed hhis name to Hales-Packenham-Mahon.
Mrs Hales-Pakenham-Mahon; Christie's, London, 14 July 1965, one of lots 107-112.

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