A Queen Anne silver-mounted crop

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'

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