A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT DESSERT SERVICE

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A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT DESSERT SERVICE
MAKER'S MARK OF GEORGE SMITH III & WILLIAM FEARN, LONDON, 1788

Old English pattern, each engraved with a crest and baron's coronet, comprising:

Thirty-five spoons, one maker's mark of Eley & Fearn, 1801
Thirty-five forks
90oz. 10dwt. (2828gr.)

Thirty-five knives, maker's mark of Moses Brent; ten 1798 with handles maker's mark WA; twenty-five 1803 (105)

Lot Essay

The crest and coronet are those of John Augustus, Lord Hervey (1757-179) who married Elizabeth,m daughter of Colin Drummond, in 1779. Lord Hervey, a captain in the Royal Navy, was the eldest son of the 4th Earl of Bristol who was also the Bishop of Derry, an inveterate traveller after whom many luxury hotels are named on the continent.