CIRCA 1713, UNMARKED
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A Queen Anne silver-mounted crop
circa 1713, unmarked
The tapering cylindrical handle with silver mounts, the finial with reeded bands and ring terminal, the shaft with silver mounts engraved with zig-zag decoration and hatching, the finial engraved with inscription
24in. (61.5cm.) long
The inscription reads 'Elizabeth Lubbock Norwich 1713' probably for Elizabeth, wife of Richard Lubbock Esq., of Norwich (1676-1717). She was the daughter and co-heir of Thomas Palgrave Esq., M.P. of Coltishall. Richard Lubbock was Sheriff of Norwich in 1714 and Mayor in 1717, the year he died. A note in W. Rye, Norfolk Families, 1913, p. 504, records a letter set to John Hare at the College of Arms on 9 December 1715 from Thomas Stradling, a heraldic painter at Norwich, 'I desire you will be please to search for the arms of Lubbocke and I will pay the charge, also I entreat the favour to let me know the purchase of a Pattant sic of arms, for I think a friend of mine will purchase one'
circa 1713, unmarked
The tapering cylindrical handle with silver mounts, the finial with reeded bands and ring terminal, the shaft with silver mounts engraved with zig-zag decoration and hatching, the finial engraved with inscription
24in. (61.5cm.) long
The inscription reads 'Elizabeth Lubbock Norwich 1713' probably for Elizabeth, wife of Richard Lubbock Esq., of Norwich (1676-1717). She was the daughter and co-heir of Thomas Palgrave Esq., M.P. of Coltishall. Richard Lubbock was Sheriff of Norwich in 1714 and Mayor in 1717, the year he died. A note in W. Rye, Norfolk Families, 1913, p. 504, records a letter set to John Hare at the College of Arms on 9 December 1715 from Thomas Stradling, a heraldic painter at Norwich, 'I desire you will be please to search for the arms of Lubbocke and I will pay the charge, also I entreat the favour to let me know the purchase of a Pattant sic of arms, for I think a friend of mine will purchase one'